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It's really hard for men to accept "support" from people especially if you've been successful in the past. Society has drilled it into us from an early age that we need to be strong, self-sufficient and we're responsible for our own success. Reaching out for help is almost like admitting that you've failed and that somehow if you could lift yourself up from the depths of rock-bottom homelessness you can hold your head up higher than if you just asked for help.
It's a BS dichotomy of course and it's likely that he was a first-gen Korean immigrant so that type of ideology is probably even ingrained in him more.
That being said many of these really creative personality types are straddling the edge between genius and insanity. Shades of Vincent Van Gogh anyone?
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