Narrative composition-rewriting

I want to tell about a person who has influenced my idea and my education. He is my supervising professor at the university in Korea.
He was born in 1960 as the youngest boy in his family. At that time his parents were old enough to raise him. When he talked about his parents it looked like he wanted to have younger parents. This is the only thing I've heard about his early life.
I met him when I was in Ph.D course at the graduate school in Seoul. At that time, he just came back to Korea from Canada where he got a doctor's degree.
In those days when I met him first, he was in post-doctorial course at the same university. But one year later, he became a professor and my supervising professor.
During my Ph.d years, he would give me a lots of encourage and advice for my future. Best encourage given by him was as follows; "You are so smart that you can do whatever you want". By then, I was in hardest time through my life. Also, he said “if you meet three people who influence your life, then you can make your life successful.” Still now, whenever I have to make a decision I ask him to give his opinion.
In retrospect, I've already met one person who influenced my idea. I am sure that I can have successful life as I want.