Helen Hong shares a tale about imagination and effort affecting supply and demand. The podcast explores the concept of supply and demand through a lemonade stand example and tells a folktale about Yuna starting her own business. It highlights the importance of imagination and innovation on the road to success. Eunice learns from a businesswoman and comes up with a new idea after seeing a flower shop with less beautiful blossoms. Yuna's hard work and determination lead her to achieve her goal of buying a house and bringing her parents.
Imagination and effort affect supply and demand in achieving success.
Innovative and enterprising approaches can help overcome challenges and achieve goals.
Deep dives
Yuna's Dream and Journey to the City
Yuna, a hardworking girl from a farm, decides to move to the city to make money and buy a house for her parents. She encounters flower pickers who direct her on the right path and she shares her rice with them in exchange for a beautiful bouquet. Yuna arrives in the city and seeks a job but faces rejection. However, she overhears a conversation about the secret of success: supply and demand coupled with imagination.
Yuna's Mouse and the Cat
Inspired by the businesswoman's advice, Yuna catches a brown mouse and sells it to a cat owner for five copper pieces. Realizing the potential of supply and demand, Yuna starts buying rice, trading it for flowers from the flower pickers, and sells the flowers to the florist. She continues this routine, accumulating money and realizing her dream of buying a house for her parents.
Yuna's Plan B with Firewood
As winter approaches, Yuna faces the challenge of the flower trade slowing down. However, she cleverly trades rice for firewood from woodcutters and sells the firewood in high demand during the snowstorm. Yuna's innovative and enterprising approach helps her accumulate enough money to achieve her goal.
Helen Hong (Family Switch, The Thundermans) stars in a tale with English, Welsh, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indian roots about how imagination and effort affect supply and demand.
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