Kids nowadays grow up so fast and they're so smart and they have they're
equipped with everything, so I think that it's also, I would say, the responsibility
of the society to kind of pivot as well, and I know that Hong Kong has been
trying to promote this creativity or this arts culture or this kind of
creative culture as you will, but I think that maybe it's a lot of wasted efforts
because it's not really that applicable to a lot of scenarios, and I think that
Hong Kong definitely has a lot of potential, to be at the forefront of this.
I mean you look at Singapore, which is kind of similar to us, but they're way
more open-minded than us, and you look at China, it's like they're in a paperless
society already and why is Hong Kong still not there. There's a lot of things
that I think that you know as a team instead of being so angry with
everything that actually if you think positively,
there are ways out of the system, and there's ways out of the matrix, and I
think that I would like to participate in really kind of pushing this movement
or contribute whatever that I can, my time or my effort, or my resources, and I
know that there's a lot of people like me that are also doing things that want
to give back but they don't know how to give back so this is kind of the
beginning of maybe a movement for the Millennials.
The other day I was talking to somebody, and this has something to do with China,
and they were like it, it doesn't even matter what you do, as long as you're the
first person to do it, then you're number one and I was like what does that really mean.
And it's like, because China is so big, you just have to be the
number one, of one thing, and you can already be successful, and that can be
like, you know, say you make toilets or you make stationery or you make whatever
it is, as long as you're the first person to do it, you're winning.
So, I think the key or the cheat code for me is to get started as soon as you can.
For me, I think it's important that you write everything down and get organized
yourself, because if you can't even sell it to yourself or sell it to your family,
or sell it to people that you're close to and they don't understand what you're
talking about, it might be hard for anyone to
understand what you're talking about. So I think the first thing is just get
organized, you know put your thoughts onto paper and it doesn't have to be
like you have to finish it in a day, this idea, because, you know for me or for us,
I mean, I don't know, I can't speak for everyone else, but I have a thousand
ideas in a day, and if the idea keeps on popping up in my head a week later, a
month later, and I still think of this idea, then I start thinking, hey, maybe I'm
onto something, and then you start developing your idea and you start
developing it and get more people to buy in, and that's how you get started.
In the beginning, even though you have a great story to tell I think a lot of people
don't really care, and it's you know, things take time, and this is one thing
that I think that it's hard for people growing up in this generation to
understand, is that, you know, with the Instagram generation, it's instant
gratification, you post a photo, you get likes, or you do something and you it
happens right away, but for what they don't really understand, is that for
every one thing that happens, that person might have been doing it for 5, 10, 15,
20 years, without them even really knowing that that's just one photo or
one post you know, so I think that it's important to put in the hours and, you
know, it sounds really kind of old school, but you really have to pay your dues.
To make a successful pitch, you really got to believe in yourself, and if you
don't believe the idea yourself, how is anyone else supposed to believe your pitch?
So I think in that aspect, you really just have to, you know, obviously
don't make it too complicated, because people don't have the patience or the
bandwidth to listen to it, so keep it really short and concise, so my pitch is
"I want to do a video game" or my pitch is, "I want to make a selfie light", or
something like that that, you know, is easy for people to understand because
even for me now, sometimes when I tell people what I do they don't really
understand right, so I would just say, you know, first of all, you have to believe
in the pitch yourself, and just keep it short and sweet.