Check out Takumi’s NEW English youtube channel 🎵
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https://www.youtube.com/@takuway
At the very least, here's what you should do:
“Change your Google password”
“Pay with face recognition → stop”
“Click on a suspicious email → be careful”
and so on.
Next year,individual GDP is set to fall to 50th in the world —and apparently that article came as quite a shock!
So what should we do?!
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1. Don't rely on the “Japanese yen” alone: build your personal “earning power” and diversify your currency
The old model—“get into a good university, join a big company, and enjoy lifetime employment, security, and naturally rising pay”—has become hard to sustain in the face of economic stagnation, a weak yen, and inflation.
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A shift in thinking: Don't depend on a company. “Create value with your own skills and expertise, and build the personal earning power to succeed anywhere.”
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Financial literacy: Not just within Japan, butkeeping a global perspective on your assets and sources of income (foreign currencies such as the dollar, overseas markets, and so on) will be essential survival wisdom for the generations ahead.
2. A hybrid view: “rooted locally, connected globally”
If you only look at Japan's domestic market, it's easy to get dragged down by population decline and the mood of economic stagnation. Yet the world's regard for Japanese culture, food, anime, tourism, and for meticulous craftsmanship and technology remains extremely high.
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A shift in thinking:Use English and technology as tools, andhave the sense that “you can do business and share your message with the world, leveraging Japan's home advantage and content power.” Earning foreign currency while living in Japan, or collaborating with outstanding talent overseas, is entirely achievable even in your twenties.
3. Be on the “using” side of AI and technology (become an overwhelmingly skilled user)
In the coming era, as AI evolves, the value of “work that accurately carries out what you're told” will drop rapidly. Meanwhile, the gap will widen betweenpeople who can use AI as a tool to create new projects and creative work and those who can't.
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A shift in thinking: Instead of worrying that AI will take your job, “make AI your right hand and transform into a super-individual who creates the added value of many people on your own.” Young people in their twenties, with their digital-native instincts, can ride this wave faster than anyone.
4. “Agility” and resilience: enjoying an era with no right answers
In an unpredictable, fast-changing era, far more important than “the ability to neatly memorize one right answer” is“the ability to change direction immediately when circumstances shift, and to try small experiments again and again without fearing failure (agility)”.
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A shift in thinking: Precisely because social structures and common sense are shifting, don't treat that as a source of anxiety—see it as “the rules have changed, so there are plenty of new chances and gaps especially for us young people,” and haveoptimism and toughness (resilience).
Looking at economic figures and macro rankings, the gloomy news stands out. But flip it around, and you could say, “the old frameworks and entanglements are breaking down, and we've entered an interesting era where anyone, depending on ability and ideas, can createnew value on a level playing field.”
I was honored to take part in Masa's
live show!
Thank you so much!
The venue was filled with
people whose hearts connect with Masa's…
Masa's greatest charm is his “sincerity”…
With the sound of his reading voice, the whole venue turned into a story…
It was wonderful!
Having experienced full-body burns as a boy, he
has touched the hearts of so many people…
He sings, “Even if I had a time machine,
I think I'd still have chosen who I am now🎵”
Her piano and voice—she is completely blind—changed my whole world.
After that, I hurried to the Westin in Ebisu.
John Parker, who is retiring this year
We're the same age, you know…
I'll never forget the time we spent living in the same apartment building!
Doug's speech…
Thank you so much!
Congratulations on your award!
Kaoru-san
Thank you!
You've looked after me in so many places!
Thank you!
Tanakacchan
Conquering the whole country by handcart…
My friends from Hokkaido!!!
Terakawa-san
The Terakawa Trio
A 60th birthday (kanreki) party
All the staff
Looking forward to working with you again this week!
Link to Takumi Yamazaki’s ENGLISH Book “SHIFT”
https://amzn.to/2DYcFkG
Original post (Japanese): https://ameblo.jp/takumi-yamazaki/entry-12982940464.html
