Hello, I’m Yasui, president of a company that mainly conducts inspections of high-pressure gas facilities.
For a while, I’ll start by introducing three recommended books. I may keep listing the same ones for some time, so please bear with me. Some of them have appeared in past posts, so you may have already read them.
Jeff Bezos – Invent & Wander
A great book for developing a long-term perspective.Stephen R. Covey – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
A must-read for building a better life and mindset.Robert Kiyosaki – Rich Dad Poor Dad
A classic on financial thinking and reclaiming control of your life.
Looks like I ended up listing only famous international bestsellers again.
If you haven’t read them yet, I highly recommend giving them a try.
Now then.
I came across a really great post on X:
https://x.com/tiger_stlv/status/2042088632589414813?s=20
It’s an excellent post about how change actually happens.
Have you ever tried to change someone by doing various things, only to find that nothing works?
Even though we know people don’t change easily, we still find ourselves trying to change them.
And people are all different.
Some are sharp and capable—give them a small hint, and they’ll change on their own.
Others lack a solid core and have constantly shifting, unstable thinking.
There are as many types of people as there are individuals.
That’s why dealing with people can be so frustrating.
So, the conclusion?
People don’t change.
That’s the truth.
Sometimes it feels like they might change, but that spark fades away.
In the end, they don’t really change—and often can’t.
I wrote something similar in a previous post:
“My Determination Faded Like Bubbles—and Nothing Changed.”
After reading that post, I started thinking about why people don’t change—even when they’re in situations where they clearly need to.
Maybe it’s because they think, “Whatever, I don’t want to hear it,” when faced with others’ opinions.
Or because they don’t ask questions until something truly makes sense to them—or can’t.
There’s a hint there.
And I arrived at a simple conclusion:
They’re not really thinking about how to improve.
They don’t ask themselves, “How can I make this work better?”
They don’t go through trial and error.
They don’t run the PDCA cycle.
No wonder nothing improves.
There is a massive gap between people who think about how to improve and those who don’t—far greater than the words themselves suggest.
If you don’t run PDCA, each experience just passes and ends there.
Even if something goes wrong, you deal with it in the moment and move on.
And then, you repeat the same mistakes again.
(Or sometimes you remember and avoid them—but not consistently.)
That’s why people who think and people who don’t might be able to work together—but they’ll never truly understand each other.
And if you try to make them understand, it’s exhausting.
So, like the post I mentioned earlier, all we can do is hope that someday, somewhere, they realize:
“I need to change.”
Or that circumstances force them to realize it.
That’s how difficult it is for people to change.
Thank you very much for reading to the end!
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Afterword
A friend of mine, Mr. T, gave me advice that helped me arrive at this realization.
Thank you very much.
