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Hello, this is Yasui, president of a company specializing in the inspection of high-pressure gas facilities.
Here are three books I recommend!
1. Taichi Kogure — A Beginner’s Guide to Capital
This book explains Karl Marx’s Capital in a very accessible way. Technically, Marx himself published only the first volume of the three-part work, while Engels published the remaining two volumes after Marx’s death. Kogure does an excellent job of making a notoriously difficult book easy to understand. Reading Capital often leads to many “So that’s how it works!” moments.
2. Stephen R. Covey — The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
A timeless book filled with principles worth adopting if you want to live a better and more meaningful life.
3. Tadashi Yanai — Face Reality
In this book, the founder of Uniqlo explains what it truly means to “face reality.” It helps cultivate a broader, more objective perspective. Since Yanai is an avid reader of Peter Drucker, I believe his way of thinking is well worth exploring.
Have you ever tried something like this?
“Make your choice quickly when ordering at a restaurant to improve your decision-making ability!”
It may sound trivial, but I don't think it's completely pointless.
I started thinking about the benefits of improving one's ability to make decisions.
Some advantages might be:
Increasing the speed at which you make decisions.
Training your brain to think actively and intentionally.
Developing the habit of making decisions regardless of whether they ultimately turn out to be right or wrong.
On the other hand, there are potential downsides:
Making decisions becomes the goal itself.
You may become lazy about thinking things through and rely too heavily on intuition.
Even so, I think it's better than avoiding decisions altogether.
After all, people often say that opportunity is like a god with hair only on the front of its head. If you hesitate, you'll miss your chance to grab it.
At least if you make a decision, you have the opportunity to seize that chance.
And if you grab something and later realize it was the wrong choice, you can always let go.
But if you never grab it in the first place, you have no options at all.
Making a decision means expressing your own will.
What shoes will you wear today?
What clothes will you put on?
The moment you choose, you are exercising your own judgment.
And isn't that what it means to live your own life?
These are small things, of course.
People often say that life is a series of decisions, but when you think about it, there may be fewer people making their own decisions than we realize.
When you choose to do something, do you know why you're doing it?
Is there intention behind it?
Decision-making is not a skill that suddenly appears one day.
Like any other ability, it is built through daily practice.
I believe that's the secret.
Thank you very much for reading all the way to the end!
See you next time!
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