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2020 New Year’s Resolution, The Year I Fly

Kevin Shan
17 min readJan 2, 2020

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My character and my internal transformation was the highlight of 2019, 2020 will highlight the external effect of my internal transformation.

I went back and read my 2019 New Year’s Resolution.

I cringed and laughed at my naivety. So many things I wanted to do, but I didn’t know my own limits or understand that some of the things I wanted to do were often completed by large teams across the span of months working 9–5 every day.

For example, I wanted to develop an app. Specifically one about learning for Clear Learner. But I wanted to do so in one month as someone who’s never programmed, in school with all his extracurriculars, and without a team.

I would like to believe in miracles, but the 30-day challenges I listed down was way too far-fetched for me to accomplish.

You could tell that at the beginning of 2019, Warren Buffett’s 25/5 rule was completely foreign to me.

The rule where you make a list of 25 things you want to accomplish in this life, then choose your top 5 and cross out everything else.

Man, I wanted to do everything. Be a pro gamer, a top badminton player, a graphic designer, a 3D modeler, build e-commerce stores, build apps, become a data scientist, become an architect…

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Kevin Shan
Kevin Shan

Written by Kevin Shan

Stock market analyst and athlete, writing about investing, self-improvement, and more. Subscribe to me here: https://bit.ly/3YMlCVC

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