How much have you improved yourself? Perhaps, you don’t make an effort to improve yourself, spending life without an aim. Son Tai-yeong (College of Law, 86) is the president of Munheonjeongbo. Also he is teaching many companies and universities as an expert instructor on self-improvement. Let’s listen to the real meaning and necessity of self-improvement, to the model which society expects and to the qualifications which CBNU students should have. ?Ed-

CBT : What is the real meaning of self-improvement?
 Son : A man, who doesn’t make an effort for himself wasting his life without an aim, is similar to a patient who has a scarcity in learning. Self-improvement is a necessary and sufficient condition to live in the modern society. Self-improvement could be interpreted with various meanings, and it is necessary for happiness, which is originally the purpose of human life. It is also to invest in themselves in a field, lowering opportunity cost so they can do their best without wasting time.

CBT : Why should we improve ourselves?
 Son : As we live without passion or a challenge to our spirit, we can drift through life without an aim. A man who looks like he has lots of defects is certain to have an uncommon good point. Actually, a perfect human or organization does not exist in the world. Therefore we have to try to decrease the defects, find the good points and strengthen them gradually. While we are developing our abilities we can be happy. For this reason, self-improvement is necessary.

CBT : What is the most important thing among your lectures for CBNU students?
 Son : I think most local university students are lacking in confidence and passion. That is caused by consciousness of comparison. They should stop competing with other people and not compare. Moreover, they have to prepare for the future whether or not the economics are good or bad. Prepared people can always catch the chances. For example, in the Malaysian proverb, “Destiny of the man who doesn’t make an effort to change it will not be changed by god.” The development of destiny is to challenge, althoug0h you feel it would be impossible, and accomplish. Make a plan perfectly and go to your goal with confidence step by step.

CBT : Who is the perfect person desired by society?
 Son : It is already known that brain, knowledge and physical strength are substituted by faculty machines or computer programs. In this society, the time of the academic clique that studies is over. Society needs people who have different abilities because they are scarce. Anyone who for the first time opens up into an area where no one has gone is a specialist. If so, it enables people who make the first step into an unknown area. Therefore, we should accumulate our abilities in a new area which has not been conquered by someone. Challenge for the role in society where you are needed!