Japan
Japanophile~
Japan
Japanophile~
Okinawans refer to purpose as ikigai
sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and savory (umami). Umami literally means “pleasant savory taste” or “deliciousness” in Japanese and owes its mouthwatering quality mostly to glutamate, an amino acid classically found in monosodium glutamate, or MSG.
The desire for recognition is probably a natural desire. So are you going to keep rolling downhill in order to receive recognition from others? Are you going to wear yourself down like a rolling stone, until everything is smoothed away? When all that is left is a little round ball, would that be “the real I”? It cannot be.
Deming gave Japan a fundamentally different view on how to practice capitalism. Instead of companies competing with each other to get a bigger slice of the pie, they should cooperate together to grow the size of the pie instead.