“Success is more of a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.” This is something that has struck me my entire life, that through good work ethic and keeping rational, one can succeed in life. I didn’t get to college with genius, or start a company with it. Only by keeping myself intact was I able to grow my company, and make sure it never hit rock bottom (At least while I was head of the company).
I believe that without my inventions, we could have been behind in the development of memory in computers. I also made calculators and word-processors commercially accessible for the first time. This may also have taken longer without me. I broke the ground for Asian-Americans to start their own companies and get heavily involved in the development of products and computers.
I guess I should introduce myself. Hi, I’m An Wang. I’m an electrical engineer who created the first kinds of computer memory without the need for mechanical parts. After that, I started my company, Wang Labs, and I became an entrepreneur in word processors and desktop calculators, both of which were very new at the time. If you didn't know, word processors were primitive computers that could only be used to write.
I liked math and science, and was very proficient at them when I was in grade school and barely bothered with the other classes. I even skipped them sometimes, but I always got an A on the exams, which got me through with higher grades. I even liked science so much, sometimes after school I would to the library and read the biographies of western scientists like Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, and others. I’ve always had trouble with rote memory, or learning through repetition, which made things like writing and concentration especially ...
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...ican who started a large business in the american tech industry. Many of my fellow asian colleagues warned me otherwise, saying it would be wise to stay out of the white-dominated field. I did just the opposite, and after seeing my success many asians proceeded to make their own companies, and further diversify the workforce.
In the end I sum up with something I said in my autobiography, “My education, my research … and my career … have all been enormous fun. My days are spent doing the things I really want to do. The satisfaction of turning an idea into something real never diminishes.”- An Wang
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Morey, Janet, and Wendy Dunn. Famous Asian Americans. New York: Cobblehill, 1992. Print.
Northrup, Mary. American Computer Pioneers. Springfield, NJ: Enslow, 1998. Print.
My grandmother sent me a letter from home, telling the success story of her old Chinese tenants who, through hard work, had become very wealthy in the 9 short years they lived in America. My grandmother embraces the belief that "with hard work, patience and a little help from the model minority stereotype, someday Asians will gain full approval of white America". She believes that Asian Americans are inherently smarter, more diligent and thrifty than other racial minorities of our time. I, on the other hand, am skeptical towards this assumed advantage that other minorities have perceived as "elevators to the ladder of success" in American society. While Asian Americans are able to achieve acculturation by gaining material success, despite this economic advancement, they are unable to assimilate socially into mainstream America because of prejudice and discrimination.
In an April data report, experts from Pew Research Center, a nonprofit organization that conducts data based on social issues, public opinion and demographic changes, reported that “Asian-Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group…they place more value than other Americans do on marriage, parenthood, hard work and career success.” It is biased claims like this are the reasons why Asians are encouraged to be further discriminated agains...
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In the beginning when Asians came to America, they had started out with nothing, no foundation, and no help. All they could do was work hard to create a better life with their own hands, someday, in the hope that they will succeed. Back in the 1800’s, during the gold rush days, Americans were displeased with the amount of Asian immigrants who came and took their jobs. Since then, Asians have been able to survive and achieve a great amount of success in the US. In order to catch up with the rest of the world, the government created an example for their own people, known as the model minority.
The United States of America is the place of opportunity and fortune. “Many immigrants hoped to achieve this in the United States and similar to other immigrants many people from the Asian Pacific region hoped to make their fortune. They planned to either return to their homelands or build a home in their new country (Spring, 2013).” For this reason, life became very complicated for these people. They faced many challenges in this new country, such as: classifying them in terms of race and ethnicity, denying them the right to become naturalized citizens, and rejecting them the right of equal educational opportunities within the school systems. “This combination of racism and economic exploitation resulted in the educational policies to deny Asians schooling or provide them with segregated schooling (Spring, 2013).”This was not the country of opportunity and fortune as many believed. It was the country of struggle and hardship. Similarly, like many other immigrants, Asian Americans had the determination to overcome these obstacles that they faced to prove that the United States was indeed their home too.
...ginning to result in more and more first and second generation Americans in the business and professional world. More and more Asian doctors, always a popular profession, can be seen today. The recent dot com craze similarly resulted in a disproportionate number of Asians heading up companies, although this has yet to manifest itself in the larger corporations. (no hard data on this, but I could probably find some if you need)
...r own profit. World War II made them lost their businesses at that time. But today American-born Asians have the opportunity of having well-paid jobs. Making them the race to be parallel in economy to that of the whites.
...o “limit Asian Americans’ career opportunities.” In mainstream media, Asian Americans are often overrepresented in number-crunching professions that require minimal language proficiency (e.g., engineering and sciences), but underrepresented in social science and humanities fields that entail superb language and interpersonal communication skills.
Wong, Paul, Chienping Faith Lai, Richard Nagasawa, and Tieming Lin. 1998. “Asian Americans as a Model Minority: Self-Perceptions and Perceptions by Other Racial Groups.” Sociological Perspectives,41 (1): 95–118.
Henry ford, a car maker, once said “If you think you can do a thing or think you can 't do a thing, you 're right.” Henry ford failed two times before succeeding his third ford The Henry Ford Company. His first, Detroit Automobile Company, had folded after Ford failed to ship a working automobile. The second, the Henry Ford Company, later known as, Cadillac Automobile Company after some time it failed partnership dealings. And the last became known as the Henry Ford Company. This shows If you think you can do a thing or think you can 't do a thing, you 're right, because he had a positive attitude and he was able to make his 3rd company a success. this is a quote about how you need to have a positive attitude to succeed this quote applies to my experience as a cross-country runner and thomas alva edison inventing the lightbulb.
After my twelfth grade, the inherent ardor I held for Computer Sciencemotivated me to do a bachelors degree in Information Technology. Programming and Math, a paragon of logic and reasoning have always been my favorite subjects since childhood. I still vividly remember the time during my graduation,when I was successful in creating a simple calculator application as a class assignment.The joy I derived from creating something that is used by a lot of people to help them perform complex calculations,made me realize the power of computing in its true sense.It was also in my graduation that I developed an immense interest in programming languages such as Java, C++ an...
Engineering has been a key interest of mine since childhood. While still in grade school I enjoyed listening to my father, an electrical engineer, teach me about advances in technology, and was always eager to hear more. I was introduced to my first computer at the age of five, and have loved interacting with them ever since. My decision to study engineering as a career was no surprise to those who knew me.
successful person has tried and failed many times, which is one thing that divergent thinking
If you do a job that is monotonous / clerical and does not require a lot of logic and reasoning, you lend yourself to boredom and chances are that you would totally arrest your mind’s capacity to think. A simple fact of life, but a ‘life shaping’ matters of truth, it turned out to be. When I used to hear my dad say this, little did I realize that this childhood advice would instill in me a spirit to apply my logic and reasoning to even small things I come across.
Have you ever dreamed of being a genius? Genius is not about scoring 4.0 in academic’s cumulative grade point average, mastering seven languages at the age of seven, or having an extraordinarily high I.Q.Genius as referred to Collins Cobuild Advance Dictionary means “a person who displays exceptional intellectual ability, creativity, or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of an unprecedented leap of insight”. For example, Albert Einstein is a 20th-century symbol of scientific genius. However, there are negative impacts of being genius such as it leads to psychological problems and disorders, it leads people to do something horrible, and it leads genius people to go against human right.