EUGENE TSSUI: TO LIVE WITHOUT EXCUSES

0m0s Intro
1m37s Chapter 1: Role of Wonder
4m38s Chapter 2: Inspirations for Design
9m45s Chapter 3: Diet
12m58s Chapter 4: Self-imposed Limitations
17m37s Chapter 5: Non-conformist
19m07s Chapter 6: Excellence vs Performance
20m12s Chapter 7: Lineage
23m32s Chapter 8: Attitude matters
30m41s Chapter 9: Motivation
33m24s Chapter 10: Audience Question - Next Project
35m19s Chapter 11: How to Define Success
35m59s Chapter 12: How to Maintain Energy and Passion
44m28s Chapter 13: Time Capsule
46m33s Chapter 14: Audience Question - Do you ever relax?
47m32s Chapter 15: Audience Question - Outfits
49m46s Chapter 16: Turning Point
51m29s Chapter 17: Changing Perspective
1h10m19s Outro

Architect/Polymath, Eugene Tssui, is
interviewed by Dr. Laura Rifkin, in a public forum at the Clipper
Club, on the waterfront of Emeryville, a centrally located town of
15,000 residents on the waters of the San Francisco Bay, which is the
central hub to the entire bay area, with San Francisco to the west,
Walnut Creek to the East, San Jose to the south, and California's
capital city, Sacramento, to the north.

This special interview specifically addresses issues of interest to an
audience of professionals and retirees. Eugene Tssui places great
emphasis on taking life seriously, on questioning everything, on
making every moment of your life a personal challenge, and being
clearly attentive to your health, your weight, and the unquestioned,
deadening pattern and routine of living, which slowly kills our spirit
of inquiry and initiative. As Tssui points out, for many of us, our
life is a routine existence with little self-questioning and no desire
to change things, we've lost the initiative to invent our future, to
change our existence in order to redesign the world as it ought to be.
We live a life, "not offending anyone", caught in the, "trappings of
comfort, convenience, quickness and ease" as Tssui puts it, "we are
already living a slow death because we feel life is good enough. How
can life be good enough when the children in our neighborhood go to
school hungry? How can life be good enough when 60 per cent of the
world is collapsing under the weight of obesity and when we ourselves
are preoccupied with meaningless frivolity?"

Eugene Tssui speaks about excellence and the importance of reaching
for excellence in everything we do. He redefines the act of wonder as
a catalyst for creating what has not existed before; that, wonder, has
little purpose unless we do something with it. He emphasizes that
impetuous energy exists when there is passion, when we are motivated
to find out the truth, when we step into the unknown, and step out of
the expectations of others, to dare to do things that have never been
considered before.

In this unique forum/interview, Dr. Eugene Tssui, purposely dismisses
the usual pleasantries and humor of public speaking, in favor of a no
nonsense attitude of urgency and impetuous self-initiative. Tssui's
delivery is one of insistence. The world is collapsing economically,
environmentally, and socially, and Eugene Tssui compels us to get very
serious, go beyond our self-imposed limitations, to fight for our
inborn uniqueness, to question and defy the world that imposes global
conformity and the status quo. This is Eugene Tssui, uncensored, on
the offense, and full-blooded.