我和Chuck的聊天记，Never stop learning

Me: Wait a minute. You just said learn from Chinese culture. What's your point?

Chuck: Chinese culture doesn't spend all of its money, and keeps up for a rainy day.

Me: I see I see. Yeah, we save money, I'm Chinese. I save money.

Chuck: Actually, that is the way to do it. How much money do you save? save as much as you can. Tell your wife, honey, every hundred dollars we make, ten dollars is for our son and grandchildren, not for us. You have to provide them better than what your father has provided. That's the way to do it. You're responsible, but they are not. I've learned from all cultures.

Me: Okay, interesting. Where are you from?

Chuck: It doesn't matter. I'm here.

Me: Okay,

Chuck: So the fact of the matter is, yeah, I know Greece, I know Italy. Okay. Um, uh, Persepolis, well, let's talk about the wall of China. It took years to build it. And how long is it? Several thousand miles? How did they make it?

Me: Do you mean great wall? Great wall of china.

Chuck: Oh, yeah, yeah, It's a beauty. Well, let me ask you what is your average time Chinese person imagine to build that wall again?

Me: ah, we're depending on the machines, we cannot do that hard job anymore.

Chuck: But at that time, they did it, and they did a good job. Of course, it always been there for that many years and hasn't fallen.

Me: Yeah, It's a great job and it still exists.

Chuck: And I want to talk to you about your CEO, let's say you work for google. Let's say you work for Blizzard entertainment. Okay? Your CEO is yummy. You know why he has to go to Egypt, just watch how things have gone through years. I am here to do the same thing. Because for the last thousand years, we haven't changed. We act and react the same way. You know, eighty percent of the Chinese are speaking English, uh, six, seven percent Americans can speak Chinese.

Me: Oh, yeah, that's true. Why? Because English is international language.

Chuck: No, no. The reason China is powerful, because of right culture. You're not that young. So you remember that the Chinese government says you cannot play XBOX that many hours.

ME: Uh, yeah, yeah.

Chuck: Well, do you know why? Because interferes with the brain. Oh, yeah. The brain stops thinking.

Me: uh, we don't like kids to play games for very long time. we encourage them to read.

Chuck: That's right. But here now parents are busy drinking, watching Netflix. If you do not know who you are, if you lose your identity as a human being, you won't get anywhere. And whatever you get is not what you want it to be. And that is what's happening in this nation. That's true.

Me: So, well, I think you're really smart.

Chuck: not smart, I am one of the best students ever, and do I have education? I have four masters and I never stop. And why do you think I am doing this?

Me: Are you a teacher?

Chuck: I'm a trainer. But I want to tell you something. Why do you think I am doing this? for leisure time? No, sir, this is a suffering time, it is continued education. You can't stop. Oh, yeah, you'll die. When you buy Chinese vegetables, put it in the fridge. If you don't use it in two days, it goes brown. After a week, it goes to trash. Your brain is just like that. You have to use it.

Me: I see, so you keep working.

Chuck: No, I keep studying. Yeah, I am studying right now. I'm looking at the trees. I'm looking at the streets and watching the people's behavior. Ok, everything is connected to each other. What is your major BTW?

Me: Automation

Chuck: Did you notice when I picked you up, I said, what city are you going to?

Me: Oh, yeah, I remember.

Chuck: We talked about it and all that stuff. Yeah, because that thirty second time lost mind, yours, everybody. So if you say, I am going to Irvine valley college, then the driver knows what direction to go. Doesn't have to wait for the GPS, which is pathetic. Ten gallons of gas going to discard. Aha, one gallon of it is sent out to the atmosphere. One gallon of gas is unburned improperly. So why do you move this much as steel and rubber and aluminum across the roads to carry one person, which is mainly not you? You got to have mass transit. Stop it. You know, Elon mask, He's trying to solve that problem. Because he thinks differently rather than their conventional thinking. Your conventional thinking works only sometimes, you have to rehash. Where are you going? so this is your drop off area.

Me: It's very inspiring of your talk. Thank you very much.

Chuck: Take care of yourself. Never stop learning. Never stop learning good advice and learn from history too.

Me: Ok, I will. Thank you.