Avant-Garde Society, Science & Design_2022-2_JaehongAn

attacked by a drunken

drunken stranger

I was in the middle of live broadcasting at the studio, and he tried to break into the door and get in, so I tried to stop him. But he didn't give up getting in the studio, moreover, he assaulted me several times. In the end, I called the police. His beating didn't stop until the police officer arrived, so I had no choice but to go to the hospital.

Several tests were taken at the hospital to receive the necessary documents for the police investigation.

After the CT scan, the doctor called me in and asked me to talk in private. He said, "I see a two-inch lump in your liver.", "I think you need to take a detailed examination."

I really saw those lumps in I thought, "oh, what's I went home and I looked up and I shouldn't but a two-inch lump

in the scanned picture, and what's going on now?" up a bunch of stuff online, have done that, is a very bad sign.

I couldn't do anything until I got the result of the detailed examination. it took more than a week.

I had thought a lot during that time.

What should I do to spend the rest of my time?

When the result is not okay?

Is this real?

What about my family?

What about my wife?'

Finally, the results came out, a malignant tumor, it was mass of blood

Although it's quite large, visit the hospital regularly be life-threatening.

out, fortunately, it wasn't was an angioma, which was a blood vessels.

the doctor said that if I regularly and observe it, it won't life-threatening.

As I walked out of the hospital, looked different. Everything

The flowers, the grass, the the spiders, they looked just survive, and now I feel

hospital, a lot of things Everything looks new. the trees, the birds, even just like me, struggling to like I can do anything.

The reason why I started this is because after experiencing question came

If I had not suffered this the feeling that

My theory is that most positive energies are born through

this story in the beginning experiencing these things, one came to mind. this pain, I would not have that followed.

positive experiences and through misery and suffering.

Of course, I could win

the lottery perhaps :)

In Korea, there is no shortage these days compared to 50 years ago. In the past, there was hunger, poverty and danger all around, and Korean society was dark because of the giant nations like soviet union and US. Also the military ruled during the Cold War.

Still, all the members of that time were survivors of the war, and everyday life after the war became much easier than survival during the war. Sometimes it was a little bit of hunger, sometimes it was painful, but if they kept trying, they would get unexpected rewards, sometimes hard work would turn into a new car, a big house.

As time passed from the past guidelines began to be settled a child listens to his parents, guidance, and learns steadily, good school, which is like good

past to the present, some settled in this society. When parents, follows the teacher's steadily, he or she can go to a a train rail, leading to a life.

But the world is unstable Europe, East Asia, the economies is now everywhere, suffering from wars

unstable now. In North America, the slow growth of large everywhere, and other regions are wars and disasters.

Degrees have already become universities. The university more students by appealing degree.

Large corporations have have begun to give low

become good business items for university is trying to attract appealing that it is easy to get a degree. already noticed this and value to those degrees.

Unlike in the past, stable guaranteed only by getting danger of being fired if At least, this is started

stable employment is not getting a job. Workers are in their performance falls. started now in Korea.

In the market, labour as quality has become

Employers are demanding special value rather

There may be countries where already underway.

itself having an uniform become worthless. special output and higher than before. where this phenomenon is underway.

So what can we do

in this situation?

a graph of the game

game difficulty curve

'Difficulty Curves' by Jimmy Marcus Larsen

So I'm going to show you a difficulty curve, which some which is well balanced between the time of the video game. well designed, the player playing.

The sense of accomplishment pain is what keeps the

a graph of the game time/ some of you have heard of, between the difficulty and game. If this is not very may lose interest or stop playing. accomplishment or reward given after the game player going.

'Difficulty Curves' by Jimmy Marcus Larsen ⓒ Game Developer

'Difficulty Curves' by Jimmy Marcus Larsen

I think this graph can represent past that I mentioned just a certain way, you will not moving on to the next step

'Difficulty Curves' by Jimmy Marcus Larsen

represent the world of the just before, and if you know not have a big problem in step and getting rewards.

'Difficulty Curves' by Jimmy Marcus Larsen

Game Developer

But the world we live in now

Adobe, or Autodesk something

As a student studying design, front of an unpredictable

The function of the neural 'AI', is evolving and differentiating and this may cause big change

now is closer to this graph. neural network, the so-called differentiating day by day, change like disappearing of something like that. Who knows? design, I feel helpless in unpredictable future.

'Difficulty Curves' by Jimmy Marcus Larsen

Game Developer

More radically, Mr. Kim from

missile at

and make us refugees or something like that is happening at least

from North could launch a or a war could break out lose family and friends, happening all over the planet in 2022.

Back to design

Let's just imagine our life

As you can see from the graph, is not unlimited, it exists but it can sometimes be capabilities that we

and creativity. life is same as those games. graph, the difficulty level exists within a certain range, beyond the resources and we have right now.

'Difficulty Curves' by Jimmy Marcus Larsen

That's where the risk comes situation where we have

comes in, and we're in a have to make a choice.

You can choose comfort to avoid pain. You can find tutorials on YouTube and install plug-ins to solve the immediate problem, but can we respond to the following problems in the same way?

Or should we focus on trying to develop our abilities through suffering and putting ourselves in a state where we can always solve problems of various difficulty levels?

Matrix (1999)

pains

1. Not to be a professional

professional in single field

What we do when we meet a new program is usually "learning".

Through a bunch of tutorials on YouTube.

So I sometimes did not even try because of the pressure to completely conquer this new program.

To overcome this, I think we should play with it, not learn it.

Let's remember the first time we played a new game.

You can just try how to run or to jump without YouTube tutorials.

And as you already know, we don't use all the functions of the program, but only use about dosens of them over and over. And that's why we don't need to "study" the program from the beginning.

We have to try to be dumb in the unfamiliar things, enduring situations that are not going well, and just playing with them.

Of course, this kind of experience can be frustrating and painful, but it will eventually develop the patience to try anything.

2. To Avoid

Avoid the web

We should avoid online as much as possible to develop the ability of solving random problems.

Of course, it may not be possible not to use YouTube or Google Search engines at all.

But what I'm talking about is our habits, and sometimes we tend to look for ways online from the beginning.

This tendency leads us to suck up a number of problems like a funnel and drive every solutions in a small number of flatten ways.

Avoiding the web must be also very painful for us because we are already breathing them like an air.

But how about just giving ourselves time to think? Such as drawing, walking, staring at an empty white board for a few minutes.

Through this kind of attempt, I think we can find the way to think bravely to deal with random problems.

To try experiments

experiments

The result of the experiment is failure. Not the nobel prize.

I used to think those failure is a shame. But after I tried multiple times to move on in this University with professor David, I realized that failures are not negative but very important for the next step.

Let's take a look at Boston Dynamics' robots.

Robots were only able to run in the 2010s. It looks really hard to make something to move well.

Likewise, we can see how walking and running is hard with only two feet, fighting against gravity.

Isn't it amazing? that we achieved the great result after many failures when we were a little baby.

Failure is painful, but if we think that each failure is not a waste of time or useless, but a precious value, we may get something from that.

And finally, if we get used to it, and feel it as a tiny shortness of breath after hiking, we may have the muscles to try any challenge.

The current world is already level predictions.

already changing beyond human predictions.

So we have to think that the welcome us unless we

the upcoming world will not we develop ourselves.

Those pains will give us keep us focused on

energy and motivation to on problem-solving.

If this condition is repeated, survive when most

repeated, I think we can most people can not.

How long can we stay focused manuals every

focused on the game of finding every time?

Thank

you.