Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending, for the first time, a Book Launching Party.
The event was sponsored by a networking group. You simply show up, pay around 15$. This included a copy of the book, plus a light dinner buffet. One of the multi-talented volunteers acted professionally as cook and a photographer.
Two days ago, I was chatting with my father over Skype… and we
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| Yaomy (Seonannam) Delivering her presentation |
found ourselves asking a question: “What is the major difference between Arab people and Koreans?” . I had this hovering in my mind during the meeting.
The event was attend by around 30 people.
The author was quite young. I believe that she is in her 20s. {insert her photo}
She spoke for around 30 mins. about her book.
The interesting part for me is a phenomena what seems to be going around these days. She had started a blog about her own love relationship experiences. She attracted her own blog followers.
Her blog have reached the list of “100 most visited blogs in Korea”
Soon afterwards, her blog started to receive requests from readers to get advice on their experiences.
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| The book: “The Psychology of Love” |
She kept answering them, through the course of one year, she accumulated enough material to create her own book and called it “The Psychology of Love”
The interesting things I learnt here are:
1) You don’t have to be a reference in a subject to qualify to write about, all you need is passion,
2) if you have a bright idea, you don’t have to keep it to yourself. In fact, sharing it with others and publishing parts of your ideas online don’t necessary means that someone will come and grab your idea. I believe that people who steal other’s intellectual ideas are typically quote lazy and need a finished product to copy-paste. They don’t usually take half-backed products and turned them into a fully fledged product… since more than 80% of the work in this. Most people can come up with ideas, but very, very few have the discipline and stamina to go all the way. So, don’t worry TOO much about this. This young lady is a live example.
3) Fast acting also seems to be an important issue. The full cycle of her deciding that she wants to collect all these ideas into a book was around 1 year only. Keeping at it keeps you focused and enthusiastic.
4) Having people like the gentleman who was sponsoring the event can accurate the process and, more importantly, keep your fire going.
So, in conclusion, sharing your idea with positive people and hanging out with like-minded people and keeping at it are keys to success.
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| Jungmo Park |
Event was sponsored by Jungmo Park, a passionate entrepreneur, creator and founder of Cornix TriPes Group.
He is a peoples’ person, a natural leader, an Includer and a good friend.
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| Yaomy |
You can buy her book by this link (in Korean)
It was a great event. Special thanks for Hye Kyung Hwang for inviting me and thanks for Edward Lee for his great cooking
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| Edward Lee.. a computer programmer, a multi-talented young man who volunteered as a photographer and a signature cook! |
More photos from the networking event and the book event :
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