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Where do you see the brand in 10 years?

I still see the same energy around the brand. Something super solar. But it's hard to say. I always wanted to be the biggest name of my generation. And this is still my goal. And we are now the biggest independent brand in Paris. I see all the giants around us, and there are so many steps to the top. But it’s... See more

Simon Porte Jacquemus On the Future and What He Learned from Rei Kawakubo

There may be a person who does not think well of you, but that is not your task. And again, thinking things like He should like me or I’ve done all this, so it’s strange that he doesn’t like me, is the reward-oriented way of thinking of having intervened in another person’s tasks.

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

The Japanese walking technique alternates between periods of fast or brisk walking and slow walking, and it can be done by alternating 3 minutes of slow walking with 3 minutes of brisk walking, like rushing to an important meeting, for a total of 30 minutes daily.

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In a sense, that is a way of living of refusing to acknowledge one’s life tasks. “Work” does not mean having a job at a company. Work in the home, child-rearing, contributing to the local society, hobbies, and all manner of other things are work.

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

To procrastinate is to voluntarily delay an intended course of action—despite expecting to be worse off for the delay.

Anthony Raymond • Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)

YOUTH: So, I am making up flaws in other people just so that I can avoid my life tasks, and more, so I can avoid interpersonal relationships? And I am running away by thinking of other people as my enemies? PHILOSOPHER: That’s right. Adler indicated the state of coming up with all manner of pretexts in order to avoid the life tasks, and called it

Fumitake Koga • The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness

One shifts one’s responsibility for the situation one is currently in to someone else. One is running away from one’s life tasks by saying that everything is the fault of other people, or the fault of one’s environment. It’s exactly the same as with the story I mentioned earlier about the female student with the fear of blushing. One lies to

Fumitake Koga • The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness

Adler called the state of coming up with all manner of pretexts in order to avoid the life tasks the “life-lie.”

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

shifts one’s responsibility for the situation one is currently in to someone else. One is running away from one’s life tasks by saying that everything is the fault of other people, or the fault of one’s environment. It’s exactly the same as with the story I mentioned earlier about the female student with the fear of blushing. One lies to oneself,