To those of you who are impatient with slow growth
INTRO | Silicon Valley at 50

PART 1: Developing both stamina and passion

1. My 50-Year Struggle with Hydrophobia
2. Born Again, Becoming the Opposite Me
3 14 years of kendo, losing as fast as light, but again, again
4 If the thing you wanted to do is making you suffer
5. Do it before your heart shrinks.
6 Stamina, the magic that makes anything 'work'
7 How do you live your life doing everything you want to do?

PART 2 My future will grow as much as I study

8 The worst and best mistakes of my life
9 Study Confidence Beyond Imposter Syndrome
10 To avoid getting tired and exhausted
11 My tomorrow's work, nurtured through study
12 It's not luck, you did it!
13 Google Director's Salty Struggles with English
14 English Study Tips You Can Start Even in Your Forties
15 What I wanted to eat was chicken wings

PART 3: The Power to Get Back Up, Building a Core of the Mind

16 Someday I will be able to make a sound too
17 Losing Dignity on the Everest of Dreams
Learning from AlphaGo's 18th match
19 How Professional Vacationers Rest
20 Special Habits That Create a Positive Aura
21 A Journey to Find the Hidden 1% Piece
22 Companies to Move for Your Values

PART 4 ​​Women, Mothers, Leaders - Connecting the Path Together

23 No one planned it
24 Meet the Heart-Pounding Leader
25 There is no such thing as a grand beginning
26 You can raise your child as a working mother.
The story of how my son swindled me out of 1 million won while I was traveling.
28 Reasons for Using Two Surnames
29 A total of 100 years of work experience

Going Out | Things to Consider When You Feel Impatient and Anxious
Acknowledgements

“Silicon Valley at the age of 50!”
- How to Grow Your Life at Your Own Pace, by Kim Kyung-sook, Google Global Communications Director

Recently, BTS announced their hiatus, citing the fact that they “don’t have time to grow within the K-Pop system that only produces endlessly.”
Burnout, the psychological symptom of fatigue, lethargy, and even confusion about self-identity that suddenly brought those who were racing towards becoming the best in the world to a halt, is a symptom that 87.9% of Korean office workers experience at least once in their lives.
No matter how much we love something and how enthusiastically we jump into it, our passion has an expiration date.
To those who have lost their motivation and come to a standstill amidst days of effortless progress and anxiety about the future, wondering if this is the right path, Director Jeong-Kim Kyung-sook of Google's Global Communications Team offers this advice:
“If you want to keep your love going for a long time, you have to keep refueling so that your passion and stamina don’t run out.”
If you want to do what you love for as long as you want, you have to constantly develop core strength in your body and mind.


The new book, "Let's Keep Going, What's Left is Stamina," is the first book by Director Kim Kyung-sook, a 15-year Googler (a term for Google employees), who reveals the secrets of the driving force behind constant growth that she discovered during her 30-year career.
After serving as the head of communications at Google Korea for 12 years, he moved to Silicon Valley in 2019, when he turned 50, an age when most people naturally consider retirement, and is now working as the global communications director at Google headquarters.
At 54 years old, he is already the oldest person at Google, but he is expanding his career and life with a near-infinite drive that belies his age.


The author says that in the long race of life, it is not short sprints but the ability to persevere that determines the outcome.
If you've been thinking about giving up in your listless daily life, open this book.
As you immerse yourself in the author's "hard-carry" life story, you will soon be infected by his boundless energy and gain the solid physical and mental strength to move forward without hesitation.


“There is nothing in the world that cannot be done with physical strength.
“Build strength in your body and mind.”
From swimming to kendo to climbing Mount Everest, Google's "Iron Lady" talks about the stamina of life.

Every year, when the name “former sports athlete” is mentioned at a gathering of about 300 Googlers, about 20 former athletes from various sports, including swimming, track and field, shooting, and gymnastics, including Olympic medalists, rise up.
Just as research shows that the top 5% of high-performing talent spend an average of 40% more time exercising per week, you can easily find Googlers working out and sweating all over the Google campus.
The physical strength built through exercise is the solid foundation that supports new challenges and aggressive execution.
The author emphasizes that as you build a daily, faithful routine of self-care and self-fulfilling habits, your physical strength and mental core will become stronger, and through this, you will gain the resilience to quickly recover from a slump or crisis.
If you are easily swayed by the gaze of others or minor criticism and your self-confidence is shaken, you need to look back on your daily life to see if you have been overdoing it or neglecting exercise recently.


The author, who was born with a shy personality to the point of not being able to properly speak to his friends during his school days, was reborn as the complete opposite of an active and extroverted person after a year of running every morning and maintaining a strict routine starting when he was 29 (Born Again Project).
Although he has never won a match, let alone lasted even 30 seconds, he has been practicing kendo for 14 years, cleaning the floor of the kendo hall every morning, and even challenges himself to swim at the age of 50 to overcome his fear of water.
Known as Google's "Iron Lady" for her unwavering tenacity and steely stamina, she delivers a powerful energy through this book that will compel you to get out there and start exercising right now.
You will also learn specific tips on how to develop the mindset needed to make exercise a habit, as well as tips on how to act now.


"Your future will grow as you study! How to build a tireless mind."
-The "Degree Collector" who beats geniuses, find the "fuel of passion" that will keep you burning for a long time.

After a hectic day of dealing with the tasks at hand, I can't help but feel 'depleted.'
Why, despite working so hard, do I feel no sense of satisfaction or growth? It's because work is about "using" what you learn, not "filling" it.
The author, who graduated from the German Literature Department in a time when there was no internet and was sorry for being a liberal arts major, went on to have a brilliant career path, moving from an information and communications company (Motorola) to a pharmaceutical company (Lilly Korea) and then to the cutting-edge technology company Google.
And among Google's top talent, many continue to work well past the average retirement age of 49.3.
Behind this unstoppable career path was his own special 'input system'.

One of the ways the author, who was increasingly discouraged by the increasingly delayed promotions in a male-dominated organization and the high academic backgrounds and expertise of her coworkers, began to gain confidence was through night school.
He has expanded his career path by attending five graduate schools: an MBA program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Yonsei University's Graduate School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kyunghee University's Master's program in e-Business, Seoul National University's Graduate School of Public Administration, and Seoul National University of Science and Technology's Graduate School of Digital Culture Policy.
The time I spent studying with my colleagues after work, enduring morning sickness, and the extensive network I built were the best weapons that allowed me to work without hesitation and without being intimidated at Google, the league of geniuses.


Recognition from the company alone is not enough to keep our passion burning.
Only the experience of growth—greater insight, broader perspective, and the exploration of new roles—can bring us back to the passion of "Day 1."
This book is filled with useful tips for the workplace, drawn from life experience, ranging from the time management principles needed to do what you love as much as you want and with the energy you need, to special relaxation techniques to fill your mind, and even how to continuously pursue side projects that fuel your passion.


“I’m not afraid of giving up, I’m not afraid of not being able to do it!”
- The bitter struggles of a 50-something Google director from a non-English speaking background

“What are your plans for the next 10 years?” If you couldn’t answer this question without hesitation, you might feel frustrated or even ashamed that you don’t have a plan.
But surprisingly, four female leaders the author met at a Google conference answered this question like this:
"Plans? You don't have any?" For someone who always planned thoroughly, that answer was a refreshing shock.
In an environment where you don't know what might happen tomorrow, it means that it's important to have the attitude of going for the opportunity you want when it arises.


Rather than putting off trying something because you lack skill and confidence, if you jump in with the mindset of "let's give it a try," confidence will follow and your possibilities will increase.
The author's move to Silicon Valley was not planned either.
At a conference where Google communications managers from around the world gathered, he proposed a new position called 'International Liaison' to smoothly connect headquarters, global teams, and overseas correspondents. Three weeks later, he was surprisingly selected and sent to the United States with the words, "You are the right person for this new role."
It was a case where a place was literally created where there was none.


He thus became the first non-English speaking director in Google's headquarters communications team.
The problem was English.
In the past, she couldn't even say "hi" properly, and it wasn't until she was in her forties that she began studying English three to four hours a day to overcome her biggest weakness and obstacle, English.
Although his English skills have improved significantly since then, his efforts have been a 'salty' struggle in itself, as he has compiled a document of unknown words, expressions, and pronunciations that has reached a whopping 1,400 pages over the past three years.
His passion, which transformed his weaknesses of being stiff-tongued and slow-learning compared to others into strengths through relentless effort, is a heartwarming inspiration to those of us who hesitate to take on challenges because we keep finding reasons why things won't work.


“There is no force stronger than solidarity in the world.”
-Woman, mother, and leader.
The Birth of a New Female Role Model for Our Time

According to one survey, 85% of working women in the United States suffer from "Imposter Syndrome," a psychological pressure that they do not fit in the position and will eventually be pushed out.
The author, who began her career hearing the question, “Can you make coffee?” in every job interview, has also battled this psychological barrier throughout her 30-year career, encountering a steadfast glass ceiling.
What I realized in the process was that the power of solidarity is much stronger than competition.
The female role models who coolly offered solutions when I was facing a crisis in my career, as well as the female colleagues I met in my late 30s at work and with whom I maintain a deep friendship to this day, were my most valuable supporters who helped me chart a grand career path while maintaining my own values.


He never forgets that what sustains women's success is their strong solidarity.
That is also the reason why she has been using the name 'Jeong Kim Kyung-sook', which is her mother's last name, instead of the name Kim Kyung-sook, which she has used for 29 years.
In Part 4 of this book, we delve into the warm philosophy of Jeong Kim Kyung-sook, a woman who has grown as a mother and a leader, and share her concerns about growth, work, and childcare, which every Korean woman would have thought about at least once.


If we could find a role model in the face of an uncertain and uncertain future, how much strength would it give us as we look ahead to the long haul of life? Director Jeong Kim Kyung-sook calmly suggests in this book that if she can be one of the countless role models for the women of this land, it will be enough.
An icon of resilience who never gives up and quietly moves toward the life they want. The mere existence of such role models gives us the strength to go one step further than yesterday.