Preface What Happend to the Angry Monkeys

8/3/2019 Preface What Happend to the Angry Monkeys

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What happened to the angry monkeys?

Be passionate! Dream Big! Live a happy life! You are the owner of your own life.

We are exposed to such kind of phrases which sound like public campaignslogans from morning to bed time. It is not hard to find people repeating thesephrases as if they were some popular hit song lyrics, as these are too prevalentin our daily lives. But, now lets be a little bit more frank to ourselves. Are younot tired of such motivational slogans?

Of course, these words are worthy to bear in mind. It is good thing to live withpassion and dream. Everyone wants to live a happy life. Everyone wants to bethe designer of his or her own life.

However, I cant deny that I feel somewhat uncomfortable when hearing suchinspirational talks. I feel guilty every time when I find myself determined toaccomplish new projects and soon give them up in a few days for lack of passion. Many say that we should dream, but, in reality, most people even dontknow what they really like and want to do in their lives. It makes me really sad tosee people vow to live better lives when they hear some success stories-thestories about people who made their dream come true people-through booksand televisions.

Lets listen from our real inner voice. Do you think you are living a happy life?Isnt it that you feel depressed and oppressed rather than feeling happy? Doyou think you are the leader of your own life? Sadly, in reality, you feel frustratedeveryday, but still believe that you will be better off in terms of social andeconomic status, as a result of enduring todays hard work. Dont pretend youdont know anything. Just look at your supervisors. They are the self-portrait of yourself five or ten years from now. Are you sure that they seem to own their own lives? Am I the only one who thinks that they seem to be lonely and blindedby self-righteousness rather than happy, although they make better salary andenjoy higher status? Lets take a look at Googles 80/20 Innovation Modelwhere spending 20% of our time on activities related to personal interest andpassion has positive influence on the rest 80% of time we are engaged in our

main work tasks. You may think Google is superior by any measure and feel


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frustrated that your company seems to treat you only as expendables. You mayhope your company will adopt Googles model, but I am sure that such thing will

never happen, if your company is a typical company which considers meetingdeadlines as important as life. A company which allows its employees to spendtheir time on something else other than their work tasks may be considered asnegligent in managing its employees, although the employees there believe thatthe two biggest barriers to their achievement are 2M, which are Meeting andManager.

The era of creativity has come. Needs of customers has diversified as their

number increases. Companies are faced with a challenge where they aredifficult to survive if keeping stick to the old way of doing things. It has becomeincreasingly difficult to earn the heart of customers even with a product withgood performance and a reasonable price tag. Moreover, as widespread use of SNS shifted communication style from dot-to-dot to face-to-face communication,stories of individual has gained power as powerful as mass media.

As the speed of change and trend accelerates, what people say about acompany rather than the companys brand itself has become more importantsource of competitiveness. What should we do to breakthrough this crisis?

Creative Management was suggested as the answer for that question.Nowadays, the importance of ideas is valued more than ever, and new big andsmall attempts are made to inspire new ideas and innovation. So people beganto come up with idea suggestion system as well as new training programs whichfocused on enhancing creativity. And the word creative was found on almost allnew systems, policies and slogans such as creative thinking, creativeorganizational culture, and creative leadership. The word creative was usedwidely across the society as like a syndrome. And it has become very familiar word that any word without creative sounded outdated and it has becomecommon to measure CQ (Creativity Quotient) as well as IQ and EQ. But I seenothing has changed..

Being passionate and creative without internal motivation is same as doingunsustainably intensive diet. It might work out well in short term, but, eventually,

you will come across the bigger side effects like yo-yo phenomenon. You cant


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be passionate just because you want to be passionate. If you do not understandwhere passion is originated, you will end up with only distressing yourself. Then

where does passion come from? Passion is originated from curiosity. It alsocomes from taking an interest in something. Kids are passionate because theyhave endless curiosity. The same thing applies to love. Curiosity and interest inothers lead to passionate love. Curiosity is caused by an internal stimulus thattakes place in our minds. We feel curious when the information you are alreadyfamiliar with is connected to new stimulus. Einstein also once said that hisgenius talent is thanks to his vigorous curiosity, not to his gifted talent.

Creativity can be defined as being connected to something differentthings .

Steve Jobs pointed out that creativity is just all about connecting dots. Creativepeople say that they happen to come up with new creation. They happen tohave different perspectives as they were offered opportunities to go throughvarious experiences. They say they were able to find serendipity when theycame across something new, based on their past experiences. They stressedthat it is important to build a relationship with people with the perspectives andexperiences different from mine, rather than colleagues who share with mesame daily experiences, because creativity is connection between newexperiences. That is why we can hardly expect innovative ideas when urgingemployees to propose good ideas. It is not that creativity is aroused when wedo workshops, play football, and have a drinking party together. Meanwhile,Robert Fabricant of Frog Design said, creativity is not in us. It exists betweenis. It means that creativity is all about connection and exists in some spacebetween us. Doesnt space mean hollow and empty? This is not true. Youneed to know that the rest half of a cup filled with half cup of water is not emptybut filled with the air. In Asian countries including Korea, it has been common tofill only half of a cup when drinking liquor, thinking the rest half would be filledwith stories and friendship. It was that flavor and taste of liquor were able tobecome delicate with trust and passion as well as personal charm of thedrinkers being melted into a glass of liquor. Passion is able to maintain its flamebecause of chemical action between something that exists between us.

Why am I lack of passion and creativity? Why am I not living a heart-throbbing


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life? Why am I not happy? This is because we live in an environment where it isdifficult to relate to other people. We talk to the same people about the same

topics every day, and the boundary of our relationship with people grows narrowas time flows. We are living a life being disconnected from people, rather thanbeing connected to them. Moreover, we live in a society where our organizational culture presses an individual to exercise ones bestcompetencies, rather than trying to lay the foundation for connectedrelationship, failing to realize that passion and creativity already exist betweenus. We repeatedly blame ourselves for lack of creativity, passion and dream,and eventually, fall in the trauma of learned helplessness.

This causes serious social problem. Famous positive psychologist MartinSeligman pointed out that the real danger of learned helplessness is that itnegatively affects all kinds of social relationship. We tend to jump to negativeconclusions without an effort to understand the root cause of many big or smallsocial issues and problems at our home or workplace. We think our lives are fullof irritating and annoying routines. That is why anger and slander are prevalentwhile conversation and compromise are hard to find.

We all want to live a meaningful life. We expect more exciting and fun events tohappen in our lives. In fact, we all are passionate. But, such passion andcuriosity are burning its flame only inside us because there is no space whereour internal passion can be realized. Why do we feel stagnant, depressed andstifled in our daily lives? This is because we have passion inside us. There is noreason to feel stifled if we didnt have it in the first place.

I felt pity that we all work very hard under the organizational structure, but feelpainful and uncomfortable for unknown sense of guilty and pressure.Organizations where I belong always had to come before my personal life. I hadto run at full speed toward the goal of the organization. Meanwhile, I felt that Iam stuck and regressing as time flied. I couldnt let my time fly like that. It wasme who needed to change, not the company. In fact, the level of company cannever exceed the level of executives and employees there. I wanted torediscover joy of love and friendship and wanted to live an exciting life. I wantedto be assured that I am the owner of my own life. So once again I wanted to feel

passion and overflowing joy. And I thought that connection with others can


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make this happen. So I started to build relationship with people who shared myidea, and started to create our own stories that exist between us. It was not that

we could be friends with or open our heart to each other just because we met.We needed to spend some time together to build the connected relationship,and then laid the foundation where everyone can lead this relationship. And inone year, we were able to bring about a new change hard to imagine a year ago. We realized the power of connection and space between the relationshipsin such a massive organization like Samsung.

However, this book is not about Samsung. This is about people just like you

who are spending their daily lives in such organization. People work on their tasks in perfect order, hiding their real self and passion, just like you do. But,

Organizations is logic, but unorganized organization like TEDx is MAGIC.

we started to be connected not by our work tasks, but by our own interest andcuriosity, focusing on something trivial rather than serious, moving fromheaviness to casualness. The people gradually expanded their influence andturned this massive and cold-hearted organization into a fun company, as thenumber of people who joined this movement snowballed from a few people tothousands. we eventually came up with results.

We experimented the power of connection between individuals through findingredballoons in the world of Samsung branches, where people are asked tolocate 9 balloons hidden in Samsung branches across the world, using onlycorporate mail and messenger. The result? We all find out them! Within 45hours, moreover surprising thing is all is found within 3 degrees.

The important lesson here is that it is not Samsung that has changed. It ispeople just like you who went through changes. They began to aware of thenew world of connection, just as Neo in Matrix swallows the red pill. This book isdedicated to people like you, encasing experiences of power of connection. Itshares insights on how to find people sharing same curiosity with you and howto find a space between you and them where passion and energy can beexchanged.


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I believe everything is connected one another. And you will soon realize thatevery important thing is not in us, but lives between us. You will learn that the

secret key to happy and passionate life is being connected. Wow life ispossible in our real lives. I am confident that you will discover amazing secretsabout creativity and passion, feeling thrilled about it. Also, you will be able toexperience how it is amazing and beautiful that human loves human. I really liketo share with you my beautiful journey which changed my life.

I would ask all of you who are reading this book to spread connection virus aslike virus of happiness. Please lend or present this book to your friends and

families, if you are impressed by its messages. Please reach me and letsdiscuss together, as I am always available through many channels such as e-mail, twitter, facebook, and other channels. Lets lay the groundwork for realconnection together, in order to arouse your inner passion and to truly becomeconnected to one another, thereby living a heart throbbing life.

Chris Anderson, TED, Curator

it is inspiring, compelling and generally delightful. enormously appreciates all the hard work, and

heart and soul, you have put into these ideas and into TEDx. It is moving to hear about the

journey you and others in Korea and Samsung have been on

Rodrigo V Cunha, Santander, Executive Manager

InHyuk, this is so inspiring, as we are thinking how to leverage the awesome impact we had with

Santander last year. Tks for sharing! I believe this is an important book to motivate collaboration

among employees. I truly believe it cause by what I have seen working in a big corporation is

that it is really hard to motivate people. That is why I believe that you are doing a great

contribution releasing this book. Have a good one!!

Jack Abutt: OakCreekTrail, CEO

InHyuk, a young author, researcher soul searcher looking for answers and looking, like so many

of us for happiness, writes "Be passionate! Dream Big! Live a happy life! You are the owner of

your own life. " His angst is palpable, his search an amazing one that starts at Samsung, a

company he says that's moved from "cool to warm. It's all ab out connection and the "space

between us" he says. Inhyuk in a new school, philosophical approach to our lives, questions our


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very existence and why we would want to live a dreary life of certainty and servitude. He wants

control of his destiny and he wants to love every waking minute. He walks the walk and has

made significant change in his own life in order to pursue his quest, his thirst for knowledge, andto seek no less than a better world order.

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