
When I became minister at 35, I became old, so I needed my own junior reverse mentors. Some of them were not even 18. One young person, Wang Hsuan-ju, started an e-petition calling for a ban on plastic straws for our national drink, boba, and got it. Other young people crowdfunded what I believe was Asia's first museum for menstruation, to normalise it and remove taboo. Others petitioned for school to start one hour later, because studies show that one more hour of sleep gets you a better grade than one more hour of studying. Imagine that.