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The Alien Gathering! (lol)
The city is all Halloween 🎃
Hideko-san, who came by train dressed like this
Thank you so much! (lol)
Roppongi Hills is all Halloween, too
Where are you?!
People like this
were walking around.
So cute.
Halloween. The truth is, everyone wants to become something other than themselves.
Bolder than usual. Freer than usual. Not caring what anyone thinks, a little bewitching.
“It's a costume day, after all.”
With just that one phrase, we can wear clothes we'd never normally wear and laugh with people we don't know.
Maybe, mixed into the wish to become someone else, is a feeling of “I want to take a break from my usual self.”
A proper person. A dependable person. Someone who reads the room. Someone who doesn't fail.
If you take on roles like that every day, you start to want to try a different role once in a while, don't you?
Funny, isn't it?
There are true feelings that only come out when you put on a mask.
“I want to stand out more.” “I want to be told I'm cute.” “I want to have fun without thinking about anything.”
You don't have to put those feelings away tomorrow along with the costume.
Even after Halloween is over, try wearing something a little flashy. Say what you wanted to say.
What did you like about yourself in costume?
A conversation video between Katsuaki Sato and Kosuke Minowa
After social media, are we going back to the real world?!
Beyond the saturation of information by AI and YouTube comes an era of community, matter, land, and nation-states.
Stage 1: The “essential value of humans (beginning and end)” in an age of AI and information saturation
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Automation and the hollowing out of labor
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With the rapid evolution of AI and robots, information processing and mid-level desk work (such as creating documents) will befully automated, andmid-level positions and mere trend-chasing will become meaningless and vanish [06:22].
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The two great roles left to humans
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Because machines have no “death” or sense of crisis, the only things left to humans are creating things from scratch, namely“the power to create the starting point (the beginning),”and taking responsibility for the results, namely“the power to take responsibility for the ending (the exit).” These two alone remain the human domain [06:26].
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A return to matter and rights
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Apart from the genius class (those who hold the algorithms) and those who hold physical substance (land, electricity, data centers) and legal rights and institutions, everyone will be weeded out [09:11].
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Stage 2: A “sense of unease (a question)” about society's morals and common sense, and innovation
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The importance of the feeling that “something is off”
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In the face of society's common sense and morals (e.g., existing school evaluation systems, structures that expose people's privacy),asking the question “Is this really okay?”—the power to raise such a fundamental questionis the very source of all innovation. [01:10:45].
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The difference from mere complaining (old-fogey grumbling)
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What makes the decisive difference is whether you can do more than just complain: pair it with a “negation engineering”-style approach or a new system or plan, and actually carry it out [01:34:02].
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Stage 3: A return from social media to matter and the real world (communities and nations)
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Information inflation and the need for an anchor
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Words and concepts (narratives) online keep multiplying endlessly (inflation), and their value keeps eroding [01:07:39].
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The value of “real business” and “matter”
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Not just words or empty enterprise: only when something is tied to a physical presence (a book as “paper,” land, buildings, a community's base) does substance (an anchor) emerge, securing social trust and sustainability [54:13].
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Stage 4: The Cinderella curve and the mechanism of “eccentricity and survival”
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The power of falling and facing it with defiance
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After experiencing a “major setback or rock bottom (the minus)” in life or business, the process of bouncing back with defiance, unafraid of what people think (the Cinderella curve), creates a powerful character and story [41:02].
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The trap of stability
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When you have more to protect and become too reasonable, your brain's circuits become fixed, and the energy (eccentricity) to generate new questions and change fades away [01:30:45].
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZM3xIAbHMg
Tokuma-san's birthday〜〜〜
Hokkaido is in full-on winter now, too〜
When we think about our own lives, we tend to start “problem solving” almost automatically.
Not enough money. No time. Relationships not going well. Work not progressing the way we want.
“So, how do I solve this?”
That is self-counseling thinking.
It looks at the problems in front of us and thinks about how to improve the current situation.
But there is another way of thinking.
That is self-coaching.
Instead of “What am I struggling with right now?”,
“What kind of life do I want to live in the first place?”
—we ask ourselves.
No money, no time, not enough ability…
Set all of it aside for a moment.
If there were no limits at all?
Where would you want to live?
Who would you want to spend time with?
What would you want to be absorbed in?
What kind of daily life would be the best?
Don't look for the answer on an extension of the present.
Place the goal outside of the present.
Then something strange happens.
You may realize that what was a huge problem a moment ago isn't really that important.
Conversely, you may start to see actions you never even considered before.
Solve a problem, and your current life gets a little better. 1
But if you decide on your ideal future first, the way you use your current life itself begins to change.
Of course, solving the problems in front of you matters too.
But if all you do is solve problems, “the present you” remains the standard for your life forever.
Today, I'd like you to ask yourself:
“How can I solve my current problem?”
rather than that,
“If I had none of my current problems, what kind of life would I choose?”
Life can be thought of starting from problems.
It can also be thought of starting from dreams.
Today…
Step back from the routine of reacting reflexively to whatever problems arise in front of you, and try setting a goal outside the present by asking, “How do I really want to live?”
Link to Takumi Yamazaki’s ENGLISH Book “SHIFT”
https://amzn.to/2DYcFkG
Original post (Japanese): https://ameblo.jp/takumi-yamazaki/entry-12983242530.html