Real work from the Hanyang classroom: selected student writing and notes from the semester.
In the introspective weeks of my Personal Branding course at Hanyang, students take a values inventory early on, and almost every semester the same thing happens: they finish the assessment, feel a genuine moment of clarity, and then have no idea what to actually do with the result. A values test tells you something true…
The semester ends the same way every time. Grades posted. Emails trail off. Students scatter. And I sit with the same quiet mix of hope and worry I’ve carried since the first time I walked into a classroom. I can’t speak for other educators… we all have our own philosophies, our own methods, our own…
High performers and low performers face the same failures. What separates them is not talent or resilience. It is what they do with the information. Every semester, somewhere around week six or seven, a student gets a grade that does not match what they expected. What happens next tells me more about their trajectory than…
Most professionals plan in blocks: semesters, quarters, annual reviews. Each one ends, and the next one begins. Nobody connects them. Here is the framework that does. Nobody sits you down at the start of your career and says: here is how to think about the next ten years. You get a curriculum, a job description,…