His Motivation to Study
In middle school, his homeroom teacher called out the names of top 50 ranked students in the entire school. They would stand up to receive applause. whenever that happened, he got upset that he wasn't one of the fifty. His determination to be called up motivated him to study harder. He did end up getting his name called for applause, but at that time he was too young to know how cool it was to get applauded by his classmates.