One hour in the morning

I like the chief editor of “The Notebook of Living” Yataro Matsuura, and I read his books sometimes. Today I introduce one of his book “The keys of thinking”.

Thinking of “Why, What, What is it”.
The secrets of
Working rich,
Living politely.

Handbook on teaching by the chief editor of “The Notebook of Living”.

Mr. Matsura tells his “The keys of thinking” in practical ways as written in the wraparound band.

Chapter One
Thinking Art
It is not a person who knows everything, it becomes a person who thinks everything

Chapter Two
Imagination Art
Imagine a lot of points, not faces

Chapter Three
Communication Art
What is the swimming style not swallowed in the herd

Chapter Four
Time Management Art
Being liked by time, make a friend of time

Chapter Five
Global Art
Power to work as a player, not a member

It is such a constitution and all practical contents among all keys, what I thought as “Oh!” was in the first chapter.

Make time for thinking twice a day and visualize it with “writing”. It is an act of setting an “hour of thinking” for one hour in the morning, preferably one hour in the afternoon, facing a large white paper and writing a thought of a piece of word while thinking about the theme of today’s thought. Continue this every day. Then, when one hour passes, it ends. It is important not to continue because you got on a good feeling, stop hands after an hour.

If you think something is going to need in the future, you can save the contents you wrote down, but basically you throw it away. Because writing is not the purpose but “to think” is the purpose.

Although the theme is not decided at first in the beginning, only time passes, but as you continue, it sometimes comes in contact with lines as words and words are coming up and they are connected to each other something like that. And it is said that some will be the entrance to the idea all together.

… I wrote a brief summary, but this is quite an experience. One hour is quite long, and every day. If he thinks that this act is “thinking”, I think that I have not thought about almost until now. And, as you imagine, I think that we need as much energy as the physical exercise. Well, can I say that the brains are tighten (When I am in super concentration Mode, there is a feeling that the brain is tightened, the brain is fully operational! There is a feeling that).

Mr. Matsuura’s method is also true, but what I often see and hear is the importance of writing and visualizing. I understand that just putting words popping up organize the head and lead to new ideas and discoveries (I have finally started doing it recently). When I think about design ideas, I do simple sketches, but as I write down my thoughts in words, it is another experience, so it’s a new experience. And I think that the act of writing with my own hand is also important. Shall I say that thinking is remembered in the body as physical activity? Every day as Mr. Matsuura is a bit difficult, I thought that I would like to continue “thinking”.

Finally, Mr. Matsuura’s attitude towards work.

I think we each person should have more obsessiveness or egotism with
wanting to do a good job, wanting to contribute to society.
So what should we learn?
One of them is “The keys of thinking”
I think.
（from ‘First of all’ of “The keys of thinking”）