Min Jin Lee

Road trip.

So in 1995, you finished this tough assignment.

You gave it to the managing partner at your corporate law firm.

They immediately gave you another assignment.

And I read that without even thinking, you just said, I can't do this anymore.

And you said that the words just came out of your body.

You just simply said, I can't do this anymore.

And then you went home.

How did that feel?

It felt really final.

You know that line in Dangerous Liaison when you say, it cannot be helped?

And that sentence is almost inviolable.

Like once you say it, you can't take it back.

I knew I would never take that back.

I was right when I said, I can't do this anymore.

And it was almost as if maybe because I am so long suffering, I will put up, I have a very, very long fuse.

It's really hard to actually break from me because I will put up a lot.

But then there'll be a line that we cross and I'll go, oh, we don't know each other.

And getting to that point of my lock career in me was really that point when I thought,

The more I work, the more work you give me.