My talk from TEDxShanghai [5SEPT2010]. Slides don't mean much without my talking over them, but fwiw, here they are.

2. 10 000 hours

3. Three Immigrant Stories

4. First Story

5. Tam Dak Hang

6. Hung Mun Lau
1890

7. image: wikipedia

8. image: Milly Lee, Yangsook Choi

9. image: Milly Lee, Yangsook Choi
image: flickr.com/loneprimate

10. image: civilization.ca, Glenbow Archives

11. rest
work
(20+ hrs per day)

12. image: civilization.ca, Glenbow Archives

13. image: historylink.org

14. 1930
image: family photo

15. image: wikimedia

16. 1968
image: family photo

17. image: family photo

18. Second Story

19. Joseph Chin Hak Jan

20. Bao Yuan Fang
1889

21. image: poeticwaves.net

23. Gold Mountain

25. image: family photos

26. image: sonoma.edu

27. 64 years.
Millions served.
image: Rick McOmber

28. 1972
image: family photo

29. 131 descendants.

30. Third Story

31. Chin Kwok Kuen

32. Calvin Chin

33. Southfield, MI
1973

35. image: family photo

36. image: flickr.com/jimdavidson

37. image: Thrive, Grace Publishing

38. image: flickr.com/talkephotography

40. image: flickr.com/jbloughphoto

44. Lessons & Questions

45. Lesson 1

46. the world has changed

47. source: Gapminder.org

48. image: flickr.com/docz65

49. 2.3%
21,333 RMB/m2 490 RMB/m2
44x
source: Uwin, Bloomberg News, Trulia

50. Detroit
image: flickr.com/kevinphoh, forgottendetroit.com

51. are you home?

52. Lesson 2

53. image: family photos, archival photo

54. 20 hours/day
300 days/year
x 20 years
120,000 hours

55. investment returns
great- savings laundry/
restaurant
grandpas
me restaurant education startup
5 ~ 20 years

56. whose 10k hours
are you using?

57. Lesson 3

58. image: opencage.info

59. responsibility
social change profitability

60. Individual
IMPACT
Opportunities Resourcefulness
Resources

62. who are your 10k
hours serving?

63. 10 000 hours

64. the end