While I’m far from perfect, I strive to make sure that they are the center of my life. That honor falls to my faith and my family. This is not to say that work is the most important thing in my life. My company is simply the vehicle through which I can take these passions, apply them to the things that the world needs, and make a profit in the process. What I am passionate about is transparency, truth, and helping people live up to their highest potential. Truth be told, those things are not particularly meaningful to me in and of themselves. I’d be lying if I said that I always cared deeply about finance, technology, or franchising. Whether it was a matter of collecting handmade Japanese tea cups or obsessing over design details of various products, he wrapped himself in his passion for finely made items.Īpple and Pixar were merely his chosen mediums of expression. Jobs was a lover of fine craftsmanship, first and foremost. It’s easy to think of Jobs as a titan of technology, but that would be inaccurate. Steve Jobs is a fantastic example of this idea. Then, you find the medium through which you can express that passion. To discover you Ikigai, you must first find what you’re most passionate about. What I learned, however, is that form follows intent. It never felt right, but I thought that if I had money, then I could have an impact on the world. When I think back on those days, I can’t help but think of the James Taylor lyric “you can play the game and you can act out the part,even though you know it wasn't written for you.” That’s largely why I went into finance in the first place. One of the many mistakes I’ve made in my life was believing that money led to fulfillment. It is, simply put, your reason for getting out of bed every morning. I now believe that Ikigai is the refined version of the concept I was looking for. However, I always felt it was missing a certain something that I could never put my finger on. I set out to solve this with a concept I called “ Enlightened Entrepreneurship,” which tried to find the right balance between these seemingly conflicting goals.
Showing concurrently, "Japanese Creative Prints: Modern Masters and Their Methods" offers abstract and nonfigurative works from the 1960s to 1980s reflecting an array of techniques and processes.The result was an infuriating struggle between the things that made money and the things I truly cared about.
Because of its association with nobility, the wheeled vehicle appears as a design element on such items as kimonos and room screens. Before the Japanese revolutionized the automotive industry, the fly ride in Japan was the ox cart. The image appears on such things as a suit of armor and a lacquered altar table. The eight-spoked wheel serves as a common symbol in Buddhist culture, representing rapid spiritual change and the cycle of rebirth. The waterwheel becomes a frequent image in Japanese art that reflects the romanticizing of rural life. Artifacts such as wooden waterwheels used for rice agriculture and a glazed ceramic pulley wheel designed to accent a garden well offer opportunities to discuss agricultural and domestic life. "Kuruma: The Wheel in Japanese Life and Art" documents the practical, decorative, and symbolic uses of the wheel while providing an education on the culture and its aesthetics. Once they got rolling, though, the Japanese became real speed racers, destined to become leaders in the automobile industry. For a long time after the invention of the wheel, much of the travel in Japan was still done on foot. What goes around took a while to come around in Japanese culture.
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