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A Conversation with Kenta Nagakura！

① 3 Key Themes

This conversation is built around three major themes.

Goal Setting (small desires→ a greater calling）
How Cognition Works（RAS・Comfort zone
Principles of Action (fear/movement/environment)

② The Evolution of Goals (Desire→ Calling）

Step 1：People always start with "small desires"

Example: I want to win a gold medal
A self-centered goal

Step 2：Keep asking "and then what"

Win the gold medal — then what?
Become a coach — then what?
And after that?--then what?

Step 3：Purpose expands

Personal success → contributing to others
Sharing the joy of swimming
Spreading health and happiness

Step 4：It transforms into a "calling"

Small desire → a greater desire (a calling)

👉 Conclusion

Continuing to ask deeply takes you "outside the status quo"
A true calling draws others to your side

③ The Essence of Goal Setting

Step 1：Goals within your current reality carry little meaning

Example: Employee → Company President
→ It's jst an extension of where you already are

Step 2：Misaligned goals are what matter

Example: Nissan employee → Toyota president
→ Seemingly impossible

Step 3：Misalignment sparks inspiration

An incomprehensible sense of incongruity
The brain searches for new pathways

👉 Conclusion

"Goals you can understand" are extensions of the past
Goals you can't understand" create the future

④ How Cognition Works（RAS）

Step 1：People only see what they consider important

We only perceive what has been important to us in the past

Step 2: The same reality is interpreted differently

The same words from a boss can:
- Leave one person wounded
- Leave another person elated

Step 3：RAS creates your reality

The car you want → suddenly appears everywhere
Awareness → Perception → Reality

Step 4：You can use it in reverse

From what you notice, you can reverse-engineer your own values

👉 Conclusion

"Reality = the result of your cognitive filter"

⑤ The Principles Behind Changing Your Life

⑤-1：Live by a future standard

Problem

Left alone, life becomes an extension of the past

Solution

Make choices aimed toward the future

⑤-2：Do what you don't understand

Actions with reasons = past values
Actions without reasons = a doorway to the future

👉 Conclusion

"Challenges that make no sense" are what change your life

Do something new. Feeling anxious?! Then that's all the more reason to do it! When there's no anxiety — your status quo maintenance system is running the show.

⑥ The Power of Movement and Environment

Step 1：People are bound by their environment

Your hometown → the old hierarchy
A fixed self-image

Step 2：Moving updates who you are

New people
New places
New relationships

Step 3：Moving becomes a success experience

Buy the ticket → you always arrive
The feeling of "once I decide, I can go" becomes part of you

👉 Conclusion

Movement = the act of rewriting your reality

⑦ Information First, Reality Follows

Step 1：Rewrite your self-image

SNS
Environment
Putting yourself out there

Step 2：Reality aligns afterward現実が後から一致する

👉 Conclusion

Reality is the result — information is the cause

⑧ The True Nature of Fear and How to Use It

Step 1: The brain is a status quo maintenance device 1

Anything new = perceived as danger

Step 2: Anxiety is a normal response

It's the mechanism trying to make you stop

Step 3：Flip your decision making criteria

Feeling anxious → you should do it
Feeling no anxiety → you won't grow

👉Conclusion

Anxiety is "a sign pointing in the direction you should go"

⑨ The Real Purpose of goals

Misconception

Goals = something to achieve

The Truth

Goals = something to change your life with

Key Point

It's okay whether it comes true or not
The moment you step outside, the change begins

⑩ Final conclusion (integration)

The Equation for changing your life

Set your goal outside your current reality
Rewrite your cognition (RAS)
Take actions you don't understand
Change your environment (movement · people)
Let anxiety be your compass

⑪ The Core Statement

👉 "When you move in a direction you can't understand — that's when your life starts to move."

Ito-chan and Sendo-san — Absolutely fascinating!!

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A new art museum in Shibuya

MINA | Museum of Imaginary Narrative ArtMuseum of Imaginary Narrative Arts［MINA］は、「イマジナリーナラティブ＝架空の物語」をコンセプトに掲げる新しいミュージアムプロジェクト。現代アートの展覧会を中心に、作品の販売・コレクション、出展作家によるラーニングプログラムやワークショップ、カフェやミュージアムショップの展開、季刊誌の発行など、アーティストやクリエイタ…

mina-shibuya.org

3-7-1 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku Nearest station exits:

3-minute walk from Shibuya Station East Exit (Hikarie)
1-minute walk from Exit C1 (Shibuya Police Station) ↓↓↓

Museum of Imaginary Narrative Arts [MINA] is a new museum project built around the concept of "imaginary narrative."

Centered on four contemporary art exhibitions per year, the project brings together artists and creators to build "the museum itself" — through artwork sales and collections, learning programs and workshops led by exhibiting artists, a café and museum shop, and a quarterly magazine. Under the direction of contemporary art unit L PACK., the boundary between exhibition and dining is intentionally blurred, creating a space where art and people share the same moment in time. Through experiences that move freely between the everyday and the extraordinary, MINA proposes a new vision for what a museum can be. What does a museum mean to us? A rich and new everyday story of living alongside art — it begins here.

This bar in Osaka is awesome

Draft Cocktail Lab

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