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On the plane, I love thinking about life. I ask myself, “Why do we live?” and “How do we live?”
The way I think is to draw it out as a picture (lol), like a mind map. I try to spend the time unhurried, as if I were playing.
I arrived at such a wonderful message. It was... “Life is wonderful.”
Yes, yes, that’s it!
This is what I wanted to convey: “Life is wonderful.”
Through my work, through my books, through movies, through everyday life...
What I want to convey is “Life is wonderful!”
Fourteen hours to Paris?! This enclosed stretch of time is the greatest luxury of all.
This month it’s Paris. Next month, Korea and the Philippines. In December, Bangkok.
The wonder of time spent in transit.
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I downloaded a mountain of movies onto my iPad, but the in-flight selection is packed with interesting ones too.
I started on my third film.
“Sheep in the Box”
“Toy Story 5”
“Backrooms”
“Sheep in the Box”
A couple invites a robot son into their home to fill the sense of loss.
“Toy Story 5”
Said to be the best in the series.
“Backrooms”
A shocking work in which a YouTuber was tapped by Hollywood.
The unsettling worldview is somehow disturbing.
A Western version of Akutagawa?!
It’s fun to have a mountain of films I’ve been wanting to see. I’ve watched quite a lot already, so the flight home is really for Netflix.
I saw “We Are Aliens” in a movie theater. It’s another much-talked-about film, and I recommend it.
Do you think it’s just because it’s animated? It touches on the unpleasant parts of our elementary school days.
I’ve digressed again, but... the moments when I feel “Life is wonderful”...
Watching a movie in a theater while eating popcorn
Having tea at an art museum, stimulating parts of the brain I don’t usually use
Talking about life with friends, widening and deepening my options
Learning something new, or remembering something I’d forgotten
Getting a massage and enjoying the moment my brain melts away
Traveling and experimenting with what I feel in unfamiliar or nostalgic towns
And so on...
Life is wonderful.
Goals tell us what to do right now, but people move by purpose, not by goals.
Rather than “I want to lose 3 kg!”, “I want to wear a swimsuit!”
And beyond that, “I want people to think I look great!” is what draws out action.
What to do is something “I’ll lose 3 kg!” tells you.
After that, movies...
I’d start a few and then stop. Not this one. Not this one. I’d wandered into that kind of world.
In the end, for the comfort of it, I decided to watch “Interstellar” once more. (lol)
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Mr. Irie (入江巨之) introduced me to an interesting AI called “Adness.”
I still don’t understand a lot of it myself, but it’s somehow fascinating! Once I’m convinced, I’ll introduce it here.
The AI makes suggestions and runs alongside me. With a strange sensation, I keep moving forward...
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But the Ise-Shima trip with everyone from the Yaruki Switch (Motivation Switch) coaches was so much fun. What makes it feel that way?
It must be the vibe everyone gives off.
Each person independent, each with their own world, each enjoying the influence we have on one another.
This time I enjoyed Ise. Our visit to Ise Jingu coincided with the Kanname-sai festival, and it was a miraculous time.
We learned the proper way to worship in advance from a Shinto priest.
Also, the food this time was exceptional.
The seminar was on “How to Build a Community.”
Your skill level multiplied by the size of your community determines the size of the crystallization.
People interested in the content you put out gather, and their growing curiosity spreads it farther, deeper, bigger, and wider.
Form an FFMB. But before that, you need to build the axis of what content you’ll share.
What did you spend your time on as a child?
What do your friends say you love?
What have you been pouring passion, money, and time into without realizing it?
A community is a “village.”
Revenue is “tax income.”
You are the “village head.”
How you spend that tax income and how you enrich the village — your skill as village head is being tested.
A way of living that creates fans. What is a way of living that creates fans?
When do you become someone’s fan?
What do they have to do for you to feel happy?
What makes you yourself feel happy?
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Do what you truly want to do. Do the thing that excites you most in this very moment. That is true goal achievement.
If we make the goals we’re supposed to pursue the goal, we tend to miss the excitement of this moment.
But choosing the excitement of this moment seems to be the shortest path to the goals we should pursue, too.
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Kyoto Takusand
Starting in Brooklyn, New York, and now in Kyoto’s Gokomachi (Sanjo) and on Kiyomizu-zaka by Kiyomizu-dera...
Thank you so much!
A 4.8 on Google Maps, and truly... thank you! Thank you so much!
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Task Manager
Thank you so much!
With the Life Map,
for each of my roles,
Purpose
Goal
Gap
I write out my to-dos...
Every week, they stay by my side on those to-dos.
Open Chat “Life Map (人生マップ)”
https://line.me/ti/g2/Dpj3U77EfUacSvesScdYwLEXdZuUjADuPvxlpA?utm_source=invitation&utm_medium=link_copy&utm_campaign=default
I’ll sing~~~
Thank you for all your support in many places
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Link to Takumi Yamazaki’s ENGLISH Book “SHIFT”
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Original post (Japanese): https://ameblo.jp/takumi-yamazaki/entry-12982123006.html
