"Opening books to the world" Workshop - Let’s build a reading culture from startup experience with UEHers

On December 8, 2023, the Student Association of University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH) and the Vietnamese Student Association of Ho Chi Minh City collaborated successfully with Tiki to organize the workshop "Opening books to the world". The workshop brought new knowledge and perspectives on reading, aiming to build and develop students' reading habits, needs, skills and activities. At the same time, it created opportunities for students to meet with important people in businesses that help hone their knowledge and orient their personal development.

Important and useful knowledge in building and forming reading habits

From his own experiences, Mr. Tran Thanh Phong - Founder and CEO of GIVER Books - brought to students stories of the real-life experiences he went through. From unexpected failures, he accumulated experiences worth learning in selecting appropriate books. For him, reading books cannot be ignored concerning his experience gained from reading books and applying to practice to perfect his knowledge. Reading is a high-return investment with low risk in personal development.

It can be seen that reading books and learning is an instinctive human need, aiming to satisfy the need for information, knowledge, understanding, and exploring the world, while also serving production and labor, and building culture and history values with community characteristics.

Speaker Tran Thanh Phong - Founder, CEO of GIVER Books - sharing his startup experience

Besides, students had the opportunity to listen to startup stories and business thinking that Mr. Nguyen Phuong Nam - Founder, CEO of Aothun.vn had accumulated through reading books. With the recently published book '9 Times to Start a Business', he has inspired many young people who are walking on the path of entrepreneurship. Sharing about reading books, he believed that we should not follow trends, reading books was not about following trends, but each of us needed to determine the goals, the direction we wanted to aim for, and the knowledge we absorbed to be able to maintain long-term reading. Only then will new reading habits be gradually formed and reading will be considered effective.

Mr. Nguyen Phuong Nam - Founder, CEO of Aothun.vn – sharingthe book '9 Times of Starting a Business'

Following the sharing of reading inspiration with students, the workshop became more exciting with the exchange of Ms Le Thuy Khanh - Lecturer at the School of Law, UEH, and the two speakers on their own experiences revolving around the topic of improving the reading experience, effective reading methods from which to choose suitable books and how to exploit necessary information to apply in daily life.

Ms Le Thuy Khanh and the two speakers shared their own experiences around the topic of improving the reading experience

Through the sharing that the speakers brought, the students partly gained important and useful knowledge in building and forming reading habits along with having their own methods for reading books effectively, choosing suitable books for themselves, and exploiting practical information to apply in everyday life.

The workshop "Opening books to the world" receiving enthusiastic responses from many UEH students

With the desire to provide students with a close environment for orientation and questions about reading. The workshop attracted the attention and enthusiastic responses from more than 300 students and speakers, creating a bustling and vibrant atmosphere about knowledge from books. It can be seen that the interest and time spent on participating in the workshop of students in general and UEH students in particular on the issue of forming reading habits was a successful start for this activity series.

UEHer and the speakers exchanging useful knowledge in building and forming reading habits

The Organizing Committee would like to send sincere thanks to the speakers who attended and shared their own experiences on the reading journey with the students. At the same time, we would like to thank the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union - Student Association, the co-organizer - Tiki, the accompanying book units, the UEH Youth Union - Student Association, and especially UEH students, who spent their valuable time participating in the workshop.

Let's look back at the meaningful moments of the workshop "Opening books to the world":