While studying in Hsinchu, Lee also learned something about himself--his natural talents were modest, but he was very hardworking. The fact that he had grown up in poverty in the mountains surrounded by women who generally couldn't read and that he hadn't had a very thorough early education became something of a psychological complex for him.
讀竹師，讓李喬發現自己的人格特質──「天資平平」與「非常努力」；由於成長的環境週遭都是識字不多的山野村婦，貧窮和沒有受到完整教育，變成他的心理創傷。