When My Father Told Me I Wasn’t Bright, It Changed My Life

Paul Zhao
6 min readDec 2, 2018
Courtesy of Marvin Ronsdorf

A Professor and a Boy Sit at a Counter

At the ripe age of nine years old, I struggled with fractions. Having received an early part of my childhood education in Singapore, I quickly came to understand the academic pressure that students were subjected to at a very young age.

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Paul Zhao

Father, husband, former entrepreneur, corporate PM. I’m constantly looking for diversions to keep the neurons firing, if only a little.