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February 28, 2019
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| He was listening to the radio. On the radio program, two guys were the guests and they talked about nature related things. He knew one person, who was a famous alpinist. He didn't know the other guy. The hostess introduced him as a former producer who worked with some famous musicians. He relocated to New Zealand. They were in their 40s. They said a lot of interesting things. Especially the New Zealand guy: Once he had been very bad at communicating with others. He had experienced being harshly bullied twice: once, when he was a child and the other time when he started to work: these things made him dislike human beings. When he had a hard time working, he would sometimes travel for refreshment. He liked to travel alone. He liked fishing, and he was good at it. Once when he traveled to a northern district (this country was long from the north to south), he found a good campsite that was free of charge and was located by the sea, in which he could catch many fish. When he traveled to a southern district, he found a good campsite that was for free, which was located by the sea that he could catch a lot of fish, as well. From those experiences, he had an outlandish idea that for half a year, including the summer, he could live in the northern campsite on  fishing; for the other half of the year, including winter, he could live in the southern campsite on fishing. He could trade his fish for vegetables with the farmers living nearby. He could live freely without working at a company. Although he didn't carry out this idea himself, but this idea gave him confidence and a sense of freedom from people's expectation that one needs to bear unreasonable things at work. After getting this idea, he could work more relaxed, and his job started to become better. He named the idea, 'Positive Escape.' His job had been to find promising young musicians, and promote them to become famous. He had great results, but during his prime, he quit. Now he lived in New Zealand. He was curious about this guy, so after the broadcast he checked about him on the internet: He lived in a house located by the lake surrounded by virgin forests in New Zealand. No water system. No electricity poles. He lived using lake water for drinking. He fished for lake fish as well as sea fish. He planted vegetables and fruits. He tried not to go shopping, and not to produce garbage as much as possible. He used decomposable waste as organic fertilizer. He aimed to produce his own electricity 100 %, so he tried to use as little electricity as possible. He traveled a lot inside the country ~adventuring by walking, kayaking, and mountain biking. He traveled often outside the country to promote events that were related to preserving nature as well as encouraging outdoor life. He was supported by outdoor gear makers. He even helped to make new outdoor brands. He was a part-time instructor at a college to teach about this genre. He was publishing books and announcing about his life experiment and activities on the web and other media outlets. From the radio program, he was amazed that the guy once hated to live with people but now he consulted young people who had a hard time living in this competitive society. He advised them saying that you don't need to say, "I have to work as well as others do," or "If I can't do this, I'll be a loser." Instead, you should make it a priority that you feel comfortable and focus on that comfortability earnestly. Then the alpinist introduced himself and his experiences, he told a story that one time the climbing party that he joined was climbing a very difficult mountain. The weather was good, but he suddenly felt an uneasiness that he couldn't explain. He told about this uneasiness to the captain of the team, but the captain ignored him saying he couldn't stop this big event with just his intuition. The alpinist returned to base camp by himself. The other members continued, but they all eventually died because of a sudden drastic weather change. He alone survived. The New Zealand guy replied to this story that if you think in the brain, the brain uses words; but, if you feel in your mind, the mind doesn't have words. Something might seem to be illogical, but it might surpass words' limitations. In this meaning, we should polish our natural sense as an animal. AI computers will be superior to human beings in a logical world, but how about an illogical world? He was amazed about their thoughtfulness. Since he liked riding a bike and cross country skiing, he wanted to learn from nature more. |
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*harshly :厳しく
*outlandish :奇抜な
*prime :全盛期
*decomposable :分解できる
*intuition :直観
*surpass :しのぐ