Abstract thinking or worldview
Many executives of large companies, who are supposed to be busy, are fans of Go (Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent).
I feel like there are a lot of big business managers like business people.
I have heard that shogi was taught by masters in the old days to teach war tactics to generals.
If you say so, winning and losing will fuel your fighting spirit.
Go has a more abstract and sophisticated image than shogi (japanese chess).
This may have been to teach the strategy of acquiring territory, but the Go board has a world view.
black and white. plus and minus.
Existence and non-existence.
Presence and absence of space.
Cosmic Matter and Dark Matter.
Why does the business tycoon, who should be at the height of worldly desires and power struggles, seek abstract thinking?
I became interested in fine arts, as well as Go and Shogi.
For writing and painting.
When you get old, it’s pottery and pottery.
It seems to be attractive that it is a coincidence that you do not know how it will be baked until you see it, and the unknown world.
Anyway, wisdom that surpasses oneself, an unknown world that cannot be seen.
Motivation and a desire to rise make us head towards such a world.
And higher level thinking requires abstract thinking.
The same applies to academic subjects such as mathematics and physics.
There is another direction to abstract thinking.
novels or movies.
Here, there is a worldview built with a specific set of values.
Immerse yourself in that world.
Historical novels and sci-fi movies.
I think that music, as an abstract world, has the charm of both.
The reason I came up with this idea is because I haven’t read novels recently, and I haven’t seen many movies.
Instead, I think my interest in art grew.
Maybe that’s why I chose a Mashiko pottery cup as a souvenir for the 40th anniversary of Koyama Gakuen.
As a young man, I was interested in abstract painting and modern ballet.
But I was also into the world of jazz and bourbon.
After all, I am an unknown person.
To myself.
The intellectual journey into the unknown never stops.
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CEO, Yasunari Koyama