Describe one specific time you had something worth saying and did not say it. What did you want to say, what stopped you, and what would you say if the same moment happened tomorrow?

Write it somewhere you can find it again — you will answer these same questions at the end of the course, and the distance between the two versions is the point.

A student wants to be read as engaged in a Western seminar without changing who they are.

Select every behaviour that registers. Partial credit.

A student concludes that the fix is to stop being Vietnamese in professional settings — to become as direct, self-promoting and confrontational as they imagine Westerners to be.

What has gone wrong in that reasoning?