[Beyond the wall] Amazing way of thinking of first-class people / Yasuo Nishizawa

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Today, I will explain “The amazing way of thinking of first-class people who teach when you can’t get over the wall”.

In a nutshell, this book will teach you how top-notch people think.

“Depending on how you think, life can go in both good and bad directions.”

First-class people know the “way of thinking” to move their lives in a good direction.

In this book, from the professional baseball player Ichiro, the painter Picasso, the investor Warren Buffett, to the first-class service of the Imperial Hotel, many first-class people in a wide range of genres, while giving examples of ways of thinking and behavior that should be emulated. , explains in an easy-to-understand manner.

Even if you know first-class techniques, you won’t be able to use them right away, but you can easily adopt the way of thinking even today.

“By knowing the amazing way of thinking of first-class people, you may be able to get hints to overcome the barriers of life.”

“Today, we will briefly introduce some of them.” Let’s learn together.


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Don’t be fooled by other people’s evaluations

Baseball player Ichiro is a legend in the baseball world, achieving 200 hits in 10 consecutive seasons in the majors, becoming the first Asian player to win top hitter, stealing bases, and season MVP titles.

In an interview, Ichiro mentioned words he disliked.

“That’s success.”

Ichiro said, “I know that achieving the goals you set for yourself is success, but if you start chasing what others say, you won’t know what success is.”

In other words, you should be the one who sets your own criteria for success.

“There’s something wrong with being told by others that you’re successful.” This is because there are individual differences in the evaluation of others, and it is a sloppy one.

A first-class person is one who sets goals for himself and pushes forward without being swayed by the evaluations of others.

The Beatles’ John Lennon also said, “Don’t worry about what people say. If you do this, people will say that. How many people die without being able to do what they want to do because of these silly feelings.” It would be.”

In short, there is no need to give up or hide your dreams because you care about what others think of you.


Humility leads to growth

 A photographer went to interview a farmer who has been growing rice for 50 years in Niigata.

After the photographer finished taking pictures, he casually asked, “How is this year’s rice?”

Then the farmer said, “No, I don’t know.”

Afterwards, he replied, “I have only made rice 50 times.”

“In any industry, if you’ve been working for 50 years, you’re a super veteran in that field.”

“Ask me anything about this job. There’s nothing I don’t know.”

However, if you feel that you are still immature, your humility that you are not satisfied with your current self will lead to an attitude of pursuing your work further, which will lead to growth.

“The moment you become a tengu, you stop growing as a person.”

“Even if you’ve accumulated enough experience to be called a veteran in that field, don’t forget to be humble.”


Take pride in one’s work

Speaking of Picasso, he is a world-famous painter whose works have been sold for more than 10 billion yen.

It is said that a certain wife happened to find Picasso sketching in a cafe and asked him, “Would you mind drawing me a sketch? The asking price is fine.”

Then, Picasso accepted, saying, “That’s fine,” and finished the sketch in about three minutes.

“Five thousand francs,” Picasso replied, when her wife asked the price.

“This is about 400,000 yen in today’s Japanese yen.”

When she heard this, she was angry, saying, “It took me only three minutes to write it, but it’s too expensive!” It seems that he answered.

What she thought was only a three-minute work, she was actually a sketch produced because she had spent a lot of time working on the painting three minutes before.

“It’s something I tend to forget, but when you say it, you’re right.”

Koichi Sugiyama, who created “Dragon Quest Overture”, which was used as the entrance song for the Tokyo Olympics, also said the same thing.

It seems that that overture was made in 5 minutes, but when Mr. Sugiyama made the overture for Dragon Quest, he said, “I’m 54 years old, so please think that it took 54 years and 5 minutes to make the overture. I couldn’t do that overture without it.”

 It is precisely because of the huge amount of work that has been done on a daily basis that I can say with confidence that even works created in a short amount of time have value…

This may be what it means to “take pride in your work.”


Good use of bluff

A small advertising agency heard that a certain company was thinking of changing its company logo, and went to present a new logo. It was almost like it was already decided.

In fact, it seemed that he was about to leave because it seemed that he would not be able to listen to what he had to say, but the situation changed after the designer of the small agency muttered a few words.

While looking at the design of the new logo mark designed by a major company A, the designer said, “Company A’s design department has been sophisticated lately.”

This was just a bluff, but when the officer in charge heard about it, he said, “Oh, is that so?” I was able to propose the design of, and it seems that the result was successful in a big reversal.

Without this bluff, I don’t think anyone would have listened to me, no matter how wonderfully designed the logo was.

When your position is weak or when your name isn’t popular, people often won’t listen to you when you talk about it.

“That’s why it’s more important to bluff and pry open the entrance rather than giving up without doing anything.”


Take care of your surroundings when you’re in a pinch

Speaking of Fujio Akatsuka, he is the creator of Osomatsu-kun and the genius Bakabon, and is a genius manga artist called the king of gag manga.

Recently, Osomatsu-san, which is based on Osomatsu-kun, has become a popular anime, and the genius Bakabon has been made into a live-action movie, so many young people have heard of the name. .

Regarding Mr. Akatsuka’s story, it seems that Mr. Akatsuka, who wrote the manuscript for The Genius Bakabon, handed it to the editor the day before the deadline.

However, the editor left the manuscript in a taxi and lost it. After all, the taxi could not be contacted, and the editor returned to Mr. Akatsuka with a pale face and reported that he had lost the manuscript.

Then, Mr. Akatsuka didn’t get angry at all and said, “I have a name, so I’ll call you again.”

Mr. Akatsuka, who returned after drinking, wrote the same manuscript in a few hours and handed it to the editor, saying, “It’s the second time I wrote it better.”

“A truly kind person is someone who cares about the people around them when someone makes a mistake or is in a pinch.”

And the world-famous philosopher Confucius also said, “The most important thing in life is ‘compassion’.”


Observation is the foundation of service

“Do you know the Imperial Hotel in Japan?”

It is a first-class hotel that is famous for its particularly high level of hospitality, and the doorman at the Imperial Hotel apparently remembers the faces and names of 1,000 regular customers, as well as the model of their car.

“That’s why you can open the car door by saying “Welcome Mr. XX”.”

 The Imperial Hotel has a bar called “Hold Imperial Bar”, and when a customer orders it, the bartender puts the first drink diagonally to the upper right, where it is the easiest for the customer to pick up.

However, when an order for refills comes in, the second glass is placed in the same position as the first glass that the customer moved.

“When everyone puts their drink in a bar or cafe, they put it in the place where they are most comfortable to drink or wake up.”

That’s why the bartender observes where the customer placed the first glass, and puts the second glass in that position as a matter of course.

“Many customers don’t even notice this consideration, but they feel comfortable in this bar.”

The basis of service is observation. The ultimate form of hospitality is not just following the manual, but observing how the other person is feeling and what their preferences are, and providing custom-made service.


It may be my vocation that I was obsessed with when I was a child

I will tell you about the childhood of Warren Buffett, who is called the god of investment.

Warren Buffett actually started a gum business when he was six years old, and made money by purchasing and selling cola from his uncle, and bought his stock when he was 11 years old.

When Buffett was five years old, his hobby was to go to the neighborhood gas station and pick up a lot of crowns such as Pepsi Cola and Ginger Ale.

“The crown is the lid of the bottle.”

A 5-year-old Buffett arranged the crowns he had picked up on a newspaper and researched which brands were selling well and which brands were not.

“It wasn’t like someone asked me to do it, and I didn’t get any pocket money for it, but I just enjoyed doing the research.”

“There are other examples of what you were obsessed with as a child turned out to be your vocation.”

Manga artist Osamu Tezuka has been drawing comics since he was in elementary school, and he is said to have been very popular among his teachers because of how funny he was.

In addition, the favorite play of director Koki Mitani when he was a child was playing a one-man puppet show.

In that way, there are many things that go well when you turn the things you were passionate about when you were a child into work.

“If your current job doesn’t suit you, you might find your vocation if you try to remember what you were obsessed with when you were a child.”

Make people close to you happy first

When Mother Teresa, a nun who devoted her life to helping the poor, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, she said, “I don’t deserve the Nobel Prize. I received the show on behalf of the poorest people in the world who are doing it.”

And all the prize money was used for the poor.

Someone asked Mother Teresa, “What should we do to make people around the world happy?”

Mother Teresa said, “First you go home and make your family happy,” she replied. She probably wanted to say that before thinking about the happiness of many people far away, it is important to realize the happiness of her immediate family first.

In the first place, it’s impossible for people who can’t even make their families happy, who are the closest to them, to make people around the world happy.

The German poet Goethe also said this.

“Whether it be a king or a peasant, the happiest person is the one who finds peace in his own home.”

How was it?

“I would appreciate it if there was at least one thing that left a lasting impression on everyone.”

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