2 Things to Know About Erik

1. He suffered from imposter syndrome

   “I was thinking every single one of these people is smarter and better than me.” Erik shares about his imposter syndrome when he started attending UCLA.

   His teacher, Dr. Peter Hammond, recognised this.   He took Erik under his wing a little bit.

   He showed me how to really excel and fast forward a year and a half from that, I ended up winning best undergraduate research at UCLA.

2. The death of his father

   When his dad died suddenly, Erik asked himself, “How am I going to respond to this?  My dad taught me the value of hard work. And I knew that’s what he would want me to do. I celebrated his life and what he had taught me in his whole life about hard work by mowing the lawn moments after I learned he died. And that’s, how I processed it.  We can choose to be happy. I thought I believed it, but I didn’t know I believed it until that day”.