Envisage your dream

This time Inamori encouraged Seiwajuku members to envisage dreams. What Inamori said are referred to with “”.

“Life looks rather harsh on us to survive. However, your life depends on whether you can envisage a brilliant dream for the future. It is important to have great dreams and sublime goals in your life and work. Since the foundation, I have been seeking high goals driven by dreams: making Kyocera the number one company in Nishinokyo, No one in Kyoto, the top company in Japan, and then the number one in the world. Just envisaging a wonderful dream and always chasing it will enable you to have a great life.”

I think there are several stages to envisaging dreams.

Let me explain each of the above steps.

1 Give you permission to “get fulfilled”.

Inamori said; “As you all know, my youth was unlucky. In the upper grades of elementary school, I contracted tuberculosis and was about to die. I failed the entrance exam for junior high school twice, and also failed to enter a university. Even after graduating, I was not able to get a job I wanted. It experienced nothing but failures. However, I was believing that my life is not the gloomy one, and thanks to the teacher from my high school. No matter how harsh and gloomy the reality may be, we must not have a negative and unhealthy mindset. It is important to always envisage bright and hopeful dreams for the future. Even when I was unlucky in my youth, I never forgot to dream and continued to shine in my life.”

→In our childhood, we tend to create some trauma from our experiences. Some trauma become mental blocks and shape a person’s life. From the relationship with parents and siblings, people have the following blocks.

As mentioned, people start to suffer from the unhappy circumstances stated above.

It may sound silly, but the human subconscious mind is so powerful that it shapes reality.

So, as Mr. Inamori says here, it is important to think that you should always be happy no matter what your circumstances are.
In other words, you can give yourself permission to be happy and fulfilled.
According to the scientific research, repeating positive words and dreams may infiltrate this into the subconscious mind, “I am the one who can be really happy.” Those changes under our mindset definitely drive the facts and reality.

2 Stay away from the mindset of others and rely on your values.

Inamori continued.

“My high school Japanese teacher was very romantic, and due to the lack of textbooks at that time, he used to talk to us every day about various topics, such as novels by famous authors. One day he said, ‘Hey guys, I am falling in love every day.’ Everybody in the classroom started wondering what he was going to say, and that teacher continued, ” Guys, as I have been riding my bicycle to commute to the school, I am always looking at Sakurajima mountain. I could say that I fall in love with Sakurajima every day. I yearn for that majestic shape, the ash smoke exploded from the Sakurajima, I have been fascinated with that passion! ” It was just after World War II, we couldn’t even eat well, that teacher was always dreaming brightly, romantically, and wonderfully, giving us students dreams and hopes. Influenced by that teacher, I have cherished my visions and dreams with fun, bright, and as full of hope as possible.”

Some people would have called that teacher stupid. Others looked sarcastically at that teacher as he was too childish. Even if he was looked down upon, he did not care about that noise. He had been the one who directs and navigates his own life. In other words, he was the one who decided which world he could live in. I think he had a clear separation between himself and others. I think he saw the world from his own perspective. This is quite important to envisage wonderful dreams to make the clear separation of each one’s own value from that mindset of others.

In summary, it is important to envisage dreams. To do that, we should give permission to be happy, and to have our own values that are not influenced by others. I also want to keep talking about my dreams with the staff.

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