This time, the theme is "action."
Have you ever heard the term "shikōryoku"? As the characters suggest, shikōryoku is "the power to set an aspiration and take action." People living in modern society have excellent thinking skills thanks to the education they've received that emphasizes standardized test scores. However, because they overthink things, a great many people lack shikōryoku. When you waste too much time thinking, the most important task—taking action—tends to be neglected. You shouldn't want to know the answer before you even try anything. You don't do things because you know them; you learn by doing. Knowledge only becomes wisdom when it's accompanied by action. Knowledge isn't very applicable, so it's not actually that useful in life. What's truly useful in life is wisdom. And the only way to acquire wisdom is to take action.
What is the opposite of success? The opposite of success is not failure. It is doing nothing. If you want to succeed, you have to challenge yourself. When you challenge yourself with something new, you will usually fail at first. And by learning various lessons from those failures, you gradually get closer to success. Everyone has achieved success that way. No one is a pro from the first time they try something. In other words, you can't succeed without failing, so success and failure are partners. But what if you do nothing? If you don't challenge yourself at all, you will never reach success in your life. Therefore, people who do nothing because they are afraid of failure are losers in life from that point on.
Most people confuse failure with setbacks. Giving up during the process of achieving success is not a failure; it is a setback. If you persevere until you succeed in anything, all the various failures you experience along the way become part of the legend leading up to your success. As Shigeo would say, "Failure is the mother of success." The right time to take action is the moment you think, "Maybe I should try it." If you don't act the moment you think, "Maybe I should try it," the next chance to take action will be hard to come by. Everyone has had the experience of thinking about something but ultimately doing nothing.
Are you familiar with Pippa's Law?
"When an idea pops into my head, I just do it."
It's a ridiculously simple principle, but don't you think it's absolutely true? Most people try to take action in a "beep-boop-pah" fashion. They get an idea in a "beep" moment, but then they pause for a moment. So, even if they get to the "beep" stage, they rarely get to the "pah" stage. The moment you get that "beep" is when your mind is fueled. Once you take a nap or something and take a break, you quickly run out of gas. That's why you have to take action at the moment you get that "beep" when your emotions are at their peak, otherwise you won't make much progress. The best time to act is the moment you think, "Maybe I should try it." Are you familiar with Suntory's Torii's famous quote, "Just give it a try"? If you think something is a good idea, the first thing to do is "just give it a try."
To digress for a moment, the name Suntory was apparently created by taking the "Akadama" from the Akadama Port Wine they were selling at the time and likening it to the sun, then adding Torii's surname to it, resulting in "SUN," "Torii," and finally "Suntory."
That was really helpful!
Now, let's get back to the topic.
The world is full of people who act like life critics or spectators. They can't get excited about their own lives, so they have no choice but to take an interest in and get excited about the lives of others. It's over if you become a life critic or spectator. You must always be the protagonist of your own life. Are you standing firmly on the pitch of your life? There are many people who say, "Oh, I was thinking the same thing." The difference between those who succeed and those who don't is razor-thin. In short, it comes down to whether you actually tried or ultimately didn't. It's strange, but if you try, you can do pretty much anything if you persevere. However, there are overwhelmingly more people who don't try or give up too easily.
It's not a matter of "can I do it or not."
It all comes down to "do it or not do it."
If you think something is a good idea, do it right now. That's right, it's like Professor Hayashi's "Now's the time!" Humans can only live in the present moment. What you do now will create the future. However, we have never experienced the future. Saying "I'll do it someday" is the same as never doing it at all. Life is a積み重ね of each and every moment. Don't waste the opportunity to do what you can now by leaving it for the future. There are so many more interesting things on Earth. If you don't do it when you have the chance, you will definitely regret it later. Take action so that "I wish I had done it this way" doesn't become your catchphrase. Whatever the outcome, the actions you take will become good memories. However, the things you don't do will not become good memories. We will all die someday. When we face death, I believe that memories are the greatest treasure we can take to our graves.
Ultimately, we are just tiny creatures on a tiny star in the vast universe. The things we worry about are insignificant compared to the scale of the universe. Life is a grand adventure where you are the protagonist, and you only get one chance. There's no need to waste time worrying or hesitating. Let's move forward in the direction that excites us!
Finally, I'd like to share an interesting quote about behavior that I mentioned at the training session the other day.
"Perception, Action, and Thought"
There is a Buddhist term called "Chikaku Dōkō." It means that all successful people proceed from left to right. Once you "know" the information, "remember" it correctly, "act" on it, and then "think." It seems simple, but it's not easy to do, is it?
If we interpret this "perceptual action and thought" in a different way,
Knowledge and
Remember
Move
Let's think
This is the result.
In fact, this term carries the message, "Let's just get moving."
The punchline is that it was hidden!
Yamada-kun! Three cushions for you! (lol)
