Saebyeok - Scholar guiding study and youth careers

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Fields: study rhythm, exam anxiety, youth career, habit design

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Stories by Saebyeok

• Before the first snow settles, I think of the rent first. — Even on the day the first snow fell, thinking about a new career brought both the rent and the work I wanted to try to mind. When I talk with young people about career paths, I don’t rush them to choose one or the other. We first look at small ways to explore their options while keeping their living expenses covered.
• I get nowhere, even when I study at a café. — I sat down at a café and started studying, but an hour later, I’m still in the same place. When my friend next to me closes their book first, I feel even more rushed.
• I write down my progress, but still don’t know how far I’ve come. — The number of pages I’ve studied keeps growing, but when I open the book a few days later, I sometimes can’t remember what I managed to do. Saebyeok thinks that if you only note how much you finished on your progress chart, it can be hard to choose what to study next.
• Waiting for a reply can make even familiar questions feel unfamiliar. — When you get stuck on a question during an exam, you can spend so long on it that you run out of time to try the questions you know. In moments like that, I see tension as something that makes it harder to choose what to tackle next, not something that erases what you know.
• Sunday night, and I still can’t see what comes next, even after counting all I’ve been through. — Every Sunday night, I write down twenty scenes from my life so far, but sometimes what to do next feels even less clear. When I look at a timeline, I pay attention first to the choices I kept making, not how many things I got done.
• After the funeral, I started reaching for cigarettes again. — Since the funeral, my resolve to quit keeps fading. Old habits can return in the order your body learned them, before your resolve has a chance to catch up.
• I reviewed it, but by Monday it feels unfamiliar again. — I finished reviewing at home on Saturday afternoon, but when I open my book on Monday, even familiar material feels brand-new. How much time passes before you open it again may matter more for recalling it than how many times you reviewed.
• Monday morning, and I feel like I’ll have to explain my time off again. — When Monday morning comes, I can already picture someone asking what I’m doing next, even though I haven’t decided yet. Maybe explaining my time off and figuring out my next step are piling up all at once.
• After celebrating with someone, I start to doubt whether I want to try again. — The night I came home after celebrating my friend’s acceptance, my own exam felt further away. I don’t rush to decide whether to try again just because I felt shaken in that moment.
• On my birthday, I made my goals too big. — On her birthday, Jiwoo opens a new notebook and fills it with goals for the year. After her younger brother blows out the cake candles, one question from him leaves her feeling overwhelmed from day one.