Kazuo Inamori
Recommended Preface
"Everyone can be a saint"
There are two conditions for sustained success in business and life: 1) Be a good person, and 2) Be a hard worker, and put in effort no less than anyone else's. If you do these two things, you will realize "self-help, help from others, and help from heaven. If you do these two things, you will realize "self-help, help from others, and help from God".
Inamori Kazuo in an interview with CCTV "business", said he hoped that young people in China think so: "Inamori Kazuo young college entrance exams, inaugural exams failed repeatedly, I am better than him. So I just have to work as hard as he did, and I can definitely surpass him."
Prologue
Life is determined by how you paint it from the inside
SiShan
Painting from the inside refers to your "thoughts," "ideas," "ideals," "hopes" and "dreams. "hopes" or "philosophies," "concepts," "ideas," "thoughts" that you hold within you. "These determine your whole life.
A book from the Ming Dynasty in China talks about how destiny can be changed by a change in one's mindset through the story of Yuan Weifan (Yuan Xuehai).
Think good and do good, and fate will change for the better.
Life has infinite possibilities
Life is not a continuum of "chance"; it is a life of alternating good and bad things. Young friends, then represent the future era. Encounter setbacks, please do not be disillusioned, the pain of friends to adhere to the struggle, the struggle will be fruitful, the struggle to make your life more colorful, so that your personality is more noble.
The great development of Kyocera and KDDI
I graduated from Kagawa University and joined a company in Kyoto that manufactured electromagnetic bottles, and at the age of 27, I quit my job to create Kyocera...(The development experience of Kyocera and KDDI)...Now, both Kyocera and KDDI, which I created, have become giant corporations, and yet at the beginning. I had nothing and started from scratch. All I had was the belief that my efforts would come to fruition in time, and I pressed on with my restlessness, motivated myself, and worked hard and harder, and that's all. In addition, so many people support me, guide me, you can say that with them today's Kyocera and KDDI.
Sentimental teenage years
Because of the war, our own family a side room converted factory in the air raid bombed, my father lost his job. Father possessed the temperament of a craftsman and was a strict character. After the war, my mother advocated the reopening of the printing factory, my father did not agree, because the reopening of the factory to borrow a lot of money to buy new equipment, touching the stone also dared not cross the river, my father did not want to take the risk, refused to borrow money. Even when my mother tried to persuade him, my father refused to nod. I also hate to borrow money from people, running a business with no loans as a credo, I think I am very much like my father in this regard.
My mother was very generous and never backed down no matter what the difficulties were. I'm an optimist, and I inherited my mother's cheerfulness. My mother also had to be strong and aggressive, and whenever I came home from a fight outside, she would shove the broom into my hand and say, "Go and take revenge, and then come home after you've won the fight!" I was kicked out of the house. There are many more episodes where I miss my mother.
Before I went to elementary school, I was known as a "crybaby," and I couldn't get rid of this childhood crying problem. When I started going to school, I had to go to school alone, but I didn't dare. I was naughty at home and a little bit clamorous, but when I went outside, I was shy and even cowardly.
When I first went to school, I got good grades, and I heard from my mother that all the grades listed on the report card at the time were "A's". Later, I stopped working hard and found it more fun to play than to study. My parents didn't urge me to study hard, so I played every day, and sometimes I went crazy. In retrospect, I was living in the bosom of nature during my elementary school years.
Tuberculosis
I was infected by my uncle and became incurably ill. When I was seriously ill, my neighbor's wife gave me a heavy book called "The Reality of Life," written by Masaharu Taniguchi, the head of a new religion called "The House of Growth" at the time. One sentence in the book struck me and made me think y: "There is a magnet in our hearts that attracts disaster, and it attracts knives, guns, disease, unemployment, and so on, from the outside world."
With great love and disregard for his own safety, he took care of his brother-in-law until the end, and his father was spared from tuberculosis, while I, who could have avoided it, was stricken with the disease. What was the reason for this? I was a child at the time, but I reflected y on this. I still remember that scene. Mr. Taniguchi's book, The Reality of Life, gave me the opportunity to think about how important a person's state of mind is.
Meeting Mr. Doi and the air raids
When I failed the Kagoshima First High School entrance exam twice and was convalescing from an illness, I almost gave up on Mr. Doi's offer to enroll in the school, but in 1945 I enrolled in the Kagoshima Junior High School with his encouragement. It was on the eve of the end of the war, and the air raids were intensifying, so there was no atmosphere of learning at all.
Coinciding with the bombing by U.S. planes, my younger uncle eventually died of illness, our house was bombed, and the family could only hide in shelters, and there was a problem with eating, a situation in which we took seawater and boiled it in iron buckets, qualifying us to sell sea salt to make money; and my mother went to the black market to sell her own clothes to the townspeople, in exchange for rice, so that we would have rice to make ends meet.
Desperately trying to survive in the post-war chaos
Post-war Japan was very poor and people were generally malnourished. We students cleared the land to grow sweet potatoes and secretly brewed shochu to take out and sell. The fire came to my body gradually recovered, and I gradually worked hard at my studies.
Wishing to go to school and selling paper bags
When I went to the new high school, Kagoshima City Third Senior High School, I went to play baseball as soon as I got out of class and went crazy. After being scolded by my mother when she saw me, I gave up the game and started selling paper bags as a side business for my father. I rode my bicycle to all the stores to sell paper bags, and I was like a hardworking salesman who loved my offense, and other paper bag operators in Fukuoka County were defeated one after another. In retrospect, my experience in the paper bag business was the starting point of my career. Encouraged by my teachers, I graduated and chose to go on to university.
My Hotsuke Era
My desire to go to college was born through a test-taking magazine, Hotsuke Era. After deciding to go to university, I started to work hard and studied even when other students were sleeping. I wanted to enter Osaka University.
I didn't get into Osaka University, so I went to Kagoshima University
Because I was sick when I was a child, I was going to enter the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department of the Faculty of Medicine, and aspired to become an expert in developing new medicines. After failing to get into the program, I went to Kagoshima University's Faculty of Engineering to study organic chemistry, which is close to medicine. I was surrounded by people who didn't know what they were doing, but I was a good student, used to running around the library, and didn't like to play pachinko with them.
The deliciousness of "eating a surprise noodle"
I was touched by the behavior of a friend of my classmates who generously invited us to dinner instead of keeping the money he won from playing pachinko. My classmate invited me out of his own pocket to get to know the society and increase his knowledge, and invited me to dinner with the money he deserved, but I was prejudiced against him, thinking that he was "not doing his job and repeating the year", and totally disregarded the face of others, and said he would leave when he lost. I'm not sure if I'm a good person, but I'm a good person, and I'm not sure if I'm a good person.
The university was a very shabby place, I couldn't afford to buy reference books, and I wore a pair of wooden clogs. That's how I spent it, ushering in graduation.
Can you get through life even if you join a triad society
What's the point of having good grades when you've graduated from college? Lacking a strong background, a student at a new system of universities, people refused to ask for help. Thinking back to the road when I was a teenager, none of the smooth, failed in the examination; the next year and then failed, helpless, into a bottom of the junior high school; later gave birth to a high school, the first volunteer to the university failed; now want to apply for employment and repeatedly frustrated. At that time, suddenly, a thought came up "Why don't I just go against this society and be cynical, anyway, I have practiced karate, and my hands are not small." Outside the Kagoshima busy district violence group office door wandered for a long time.
Life is not always unlucky
I revised the idea, thought of hope, finally did not step into the door of the yakuza, into the professional unsuitable for the Kyoto "Matsukaze Industrial Company", the beginning of the career is also very shabby and wretched. The first half of my life was full of setbacks. It has given me trials and tribulations, and it is through such experiences that a person's true abilities are extended indefinitely.
Ideal will be realized
To encounter hardship and want to get rid of it, this is human. The situation where you want to get rid of it, but you can't, is often the most common. If you have bad luck or bad fortune, put up with it, keep a cheerful mind and look forward, keep working hard and don't slack off, that's life. My life is like this, relying on a cheerful state of mind and unremitting efforts, I have realized my own ideal.
Entering a money-losing enterprise
In 1955, when I took office, "Songfeng Industry" **** recruited five people, five new employees came together every day to complain about the company, and in less than two months there was only one person left and I. We felt that it was useless to complain, and we talked about it. We thought it was useless to complain, so we talked about enrolling in the Self-Defense Forces, and in order to enter the Cadre Candidate School, we took an examination at the Self-Defense Forces in Itami City, Hyogo Prefecture, and passed it with flying colors.
I was the only one left in the broken company
I needed a copy of the family register to enter the Self-Defense Forces, and my family didn't agree that I should quit the job I had worked so hard to get, and wouldn't give me a copy of the family register. In the end, I had to be tough to stay in the company alone, began to change my ideas and attitudes, seriously engaged in research, and slowly entered a "virtuous cycle" Although only 23 years old, I thought: "This way to continue to rely on their own research, I can make this deficit enterprise turn around to profitability. "
Research results adopted by Panasonic Corporation
About a year and a half after I started my research, I succeeded in synthesizing a new ceramic material called magnesium peridotite. This new material was the first in Japan and the second in the world. Panasonic used the high-frequency insulating material that I had developed to manufacture the "U-type insulating parts" in television tubes. In order to fulfill the order from Matsushita Electronics, I selected a group of outstanding young people to be my research assistants.
Maintaining production even at the risk of a strike
At that time, the company's employees and managers were often at odds with each other, and strikes were common. In view of the fact that a strike would have interrupted supplies to Panasonic and caused losses to customers, we maintained production at the risk of sabotage and strikes. All of the employees in our department lived in the workshop, and when the products were produced, they were thrown from the wall, and a woman waiting outside the company wall would catch them and deliver them to Panasonic. (The woman who was making the delivery outside the walls is now my wife.) I tried my best to do the research, but I couldn't see any progress, and I had a confrontation with the head of the technical department, so I finally resigned and left the company.
Continuing to work as hard as anyone else
My companions thought it would be a shame to give up in the middle of a project, so in 1959 Kyoto Ceramics was founded with a capital of 3 million yen. "If I failed, it would not only mean betraying the shareholders who kindly funded the establishment of the company for me, but it could also put the employees out on the street" I worked hard every single day, putting in as much effort as anyone else. Looking back on my life, I believe that the most important thing is to "always have a clear goal, and work hard, hard, hard, hard toward that goal." When Kyocera became famous, it did not take pride in its achievements, but continued to persevere and strive for excellence, and continued to work hard to the death, which has led to today's achievements.
Doing research in the laboratory, I have to love onyx made of milk bowl every day will be mixed with raw materials, or all day to start the work of crushing raw materials of the tank mill, this tank mill has a number of small grinding ball, by grinding ball constantly rolling speak raw materials crushed. At first I was not very attentive, only the conventional method. Once again, I was attracted by the sight of a pioneer technician using a scraper to remove the powder in the pit and then washing the balls with a brush. As I watched, I thought, "A man who graduated from college is doing such a trivial task." After a few attempts to emulate him, I finally realized the reasoning behind his approach - so it was! Because of sloppy carelessness in washing the abrasive ball, the powder from the previous experiment, though only a little, stayed in the pits of the ball. Just because a little powder was mixed in, it made a subtle change in the properties of the ceramic. That pioneer cleaned the jar mill carefully and then wiped it carefully with a towel. I lamented that he had done such a thorough job on such a simple assignment! Since then, no matter how cold it was, I would wash the pot mill carefully with cold water, carefully checking for impurities, and then wipe it dry with a towel for the next use.
In fact, although I poured my passion into my research work, I often asked myself, "What will I accomplish if I keep doing this for the rest of my life?" I felt restless and even depressed at times.
Struggling with negativity
While I was always torn between quitting and staying in my job, I felt strongly that "if I just whine and don't take things seriously, I won't succeed in life." For those of you who are about to enter the workforce and start on your life path, I would like to tell you, "Consistency is power. Take one step at a time and work consistently for the rest of your life. It is through this sustained, extraordinary effort that I have finally achieved great things."
Love what you do, keep drilling and innovating
There are very few people who are so lucky and determined to find or settle on a job they love right off the bat. Since you don't have the chance to pick and choose, you have to love the job from the inside. It's important that you like a job if you want to focus on it consistently. Then you have to keep thinking and keep researching and innovating. This is even more important.
Be happy when you need to be happy
Research is sometimes boring and long, as is any long and difficult job. We have to take pleasure and satisfaction from it. I'm always happy with small successes (which is not "frivolous"), because I realize that it is spiritual nourishment. Whether you look at your life positively or negatively, you will get a different life.
Like your own company
For Kyocera's employees, I hope that they will: 1. like their work, 2. continue to research and innovate, and 3. find joy in their work and innovation. Now add two more: 4 to like your company 5 to consistently work hard and desperately to get God's revelation after racking your brains. I got into a company I don't like, but if I can't change it I have to accept it positively, and it's not hard to slowly like it. Only by getting rid of negative attitudes will life turn around.
Energetic life today
To realize the dream can only rely on step-by-step efforts, long-term plans are not useful, do not just describe their own dreams, then no matter when, the dream will only be a dream. Do a good job today, every day a little bit of solid effort, in time, they will be in a very high level without realizing it. Whether it is study, work or sports, such efforts are the only pragmatic way to realize your dreams.
Not forgetting to be thankful
"I desperately try to do the work in front of me and seriously solve the problems in front of me, but I always fail to see results and progress." Many of you younger friends may feel this way. But I urge you to try harder. "Effort has reached its limit, and greater effort than this is absolutely impossible." -- If the effort reaches that level, you will either be inspired, as if it were a gift from God; or people will appear who recognize your efforts and reach out to you.
Founding Kyocera
My men flooded into my dormitory when I resigned and said in unison, "I'll resign, too, and follow you!" Mr. Aoyama introduced me to his classmates and painstakingly convinced them to invest. Even the final bank loan was secured by the property of Mr. Nishie (a specialist at Miyagi Electric Works, a Kyoto switchboard manufacturer). Kyoto Ceramics opened its doors on April 1, 1959, borrowing the warehouse of Miyagi Electric at the beginning, and had 28 employees. Miyagi was asked to be the president of the company, Aoyama was appointed as a director, and I was a director and technical manager. I was in charge of the actual operation.
By IBM's rigorous refining, among the world's first class
We worked without distraction and wholeheartedly, and the result was miraculously profitable in the first year. Five years after the establishment of Kyoto Ceramics, in the mid-1960s, a large number of transistors began to be used in the "heart of the heart" of electrical appliances, such as radios and televisions, and we received a large number of orders from the Hong Kong Microelectronics Company and Fairchild Semiconductor in the U.S. In 1966, we received a large order of 25 million IC substrates for the manufacture of ICs from IBM. In 1966, we received a large order of 25 million IC substrates for the manufacture of ICs from IBM. At that time, Kyocera's annual sales were less than 500 million yen, and this one order amounted to 150 million yen. However, IBM's required precision was 10 times greater than our usual, and even so, we could not give up. After I became the president in the 8th year after the startup, in the dormitory, I worked from early in the morning to late at night every day, sometimes continuously, and put all my efforts into this product development, and in 3 months...5 months...finally, we completed and delivered the initial 200,000 products in accordance with the customer's specifications. However, all of them failed to pass IBM's inspection and were returned. Development had to start all over again.
Did you pray to God
At 2:00 a.m. late one night, I was making my rounds on the shop floor to motivate the employees who still stayed on the shop floor to work overtime. I saw a technician standing in front of the furnace, his shoulders trembling and sobbing. When I inquired, his reply was "The temperature in the electric furnace can't be maintained at a balanced level, so there are always subtle differences in the size of the products." I told him to go back to bed, but he stood still. This is when I asked him, "Please make sure we succeed this time - have you ever prayed to God like this when sintering?" The point I was trying to make was that after one is sure that one has done one's best, there is nothing else to do but pray to God. You heard this repeated several times, then nodded and said, "I see! Let me start over." So he renews the challenge. All of us finally overcame one difficult hurdle after another, and we turned up the heat to full capacity with a 24-hour-a-day, three-shift system, aiming for a monthly output of 1,000,000 units. Seven months after receiving the order, IBM finally sent a notice of qualification for Kyocera products. The confidence that arose from the subtle completion of the task, after being thoroughly refined by the world's premier company, could not be replaced by anything else. Orders continued to come in afterward, and Kyocera entered a phase of rapid growth. In the 12th year after its establishment, Kyocera Ceramics entered the ranks of first-class companies.
Challenging a Giant
I proposed to get involved in the communications business, and it was considered a reckless idea for me to challenge the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) as an outsider. For six consecutive months, even after returning home from drinking, I continued to ask myself whether my motives were good and whether I had any selfish motives. In the end, I was able to confirm that my ambition was "to do my best for society and the world," and that I was pure and unwavering. Up to that time, Japan's domestic telephone service was monopolized by Dentsu, and as a result, the cost of telephone calls in Japan was much higher than the international standard, and the public was looking forward to the emergence of a new telephone company in order to lower the cost of telephone calls in Japan through competition. It was only after this was clarified that we began to take a public stand on our involvement in the telecommunications industry. We opened the "Second Electricity and Telecommunications Corporation".
Definition of the "au" cellular phone service range
Based on my understanding of the future of semiconductor performance and miniaturization, I was convinced that, "At this rate, a cell phone that can fit in the palm of your hand will soon be available. " At that time, none of our directors agreed to participate in the mobile communications business because no one was doing well in the cell phone (car phone) business. "No one agrees, and you and I are going to do it." I said to another company director. Under these circumstances, the mobile communications business was started, and this was the beginning of the "au" cellular phone service system that KDDI is currently engaged in. Since then, DIECO has been recognized for its involvement in the mobile communications business.
Even weeds are trying to survive
Through my experience with Kyocera and KDDI, I often tell young entrepreneurs, "In this world, all living things are trying desperately to survive. Even the weeds on the side of the road are trying to survive. Regardless of the outcome, give it your all, focus on every moment in front of you, and try and try again.
What do you learn in school
The most important thing for children is: what do you learn in school? I think the most important thing is to learn "creativity", to learn "hard work", to learn "how to behave correctly", to find teachers who can teach these qualities, and to open up their own brilliant life.
Why?
Why be reprimanded
There are two things I still remember from elementary school. One was the teacher's question in social studies class, "Why is rice from Kagoshima shipped to Kyushu?" I raised my hand and answered, "It's because there's a surplus of rice in Kagoshima." The teacher suddenly reprimanded me, saying, "It's because there's a surplus of rice in Kagoshima. The teacher suddenly reprimanded me, "You're a fool! You!" He went on to explain many reasons, but in the end, it was because there was a surplus of local rice. I'm not a big fan of studying, and this made me even more discouraged.
Summer vacation masterpiece - measuring device
In the fourth grade of elementary school in the summer vacation did not know that the handiwork done, everyone collects insect specimens, I can not learn well, pressed to learn to use. On their own with a bamboo tube to make a "measuring cylinder": the bamboo interior dug through, made like a telescope cylinder, inserted into the celluloid plate, carved on the top of the number of degrees. Then make a tripod, and then fixed the bamboo tube on the shelf. Distance measurement, such as in the distance from the object to be measured at 20 meters, set up a tripod, in the object to be measured near the erection of a 1-meter-long stick, so that it is level with the bamboo tube on the good, and then from the bamboo tube end of the hole in the observation, to see the object to be measured and the cylinder on the celluloid plate on which the scale aligned to the height of the object can be calculated. This is one way to determine the height of an object using the scaling method. The teacher said, "You're an idiot! Can you measure the height of something like that?" When the demonstration accidentally dropped the bamboo tube, it also drew a burst of laughter from the classmates. It was very embarrassing. In retrospect, I don't think that throwing cold water on creativity like that will produce good kids.
Valuing creativity
The ability to memorize knowledge is the ability of a good person, and the creativity that is built on it is even more valuable. In the new era, merely repeating what has gone before or referring to previous examples will not win the competition. Applying knowledge is more important than memorizing it.
The difference in creativity reflected in the Kyoto Prize
The Inamori Foundation, which I run, awards the Kyoto Prize, a major international prize, every year to scientists who have achieved outstanding research results. The prize money is 50 million yen for each of the three branches of cutting-edge technology, basic science, thought and art, and it is awarded together with a gold medal inlaid with a brilliant emerald and ruby made by Kyocera. Scientists from all over the world in many fields are selected. From the "Kyoto Prize" selection results, Japan's education is difficult to breed creativity, Europe and the United States, especially the United States education in the creative substance is significantly stronger than Japan.
Thinking about one's life goals
Compared with Japanese children, American children receive a relatively free and liberal education until high school, when they focus on developing their humanity and personality and clarifying "what they want to do in the future and where they want to go," and then go to college to learn the basics of realizing their goals. They have a strong sense of purpose. Whether or not you have this kind of thinking experience makes a big difference in your future life. It's not too late to work on it. I hope everyone has an awakening to their own creativity and consciously expands it.
Relearning from the elementary school curriculum
Elementary school was not good, especially math. Upper elementary school was used to revisit it. Whenever I trace the matter of re-learning math, I feel that he changed my life. Once the most rejected subject has become the most favorite, the most good at the subject of satisfaction, I also entered the polytechnic university as a result. This is also directly related to the fact that I was able to create the high-tech company that Kyocera is today.
Early and late bloomers
Like early and late bloomers, there are early bloomers and late bloomers. There is no need to be discouraged if you don't get good grades, just work hard from then on. Because of the bad grades and suffering from people I think it may be worthwhile to start from the most basic just learn, some people will think stupid, but I am so down-to-earth efforts, with this approach to improve the grades, and shaped the person I am today.
Why should we pay attention to morality
In the future you will have to learn a lot of things, which must not forget is to improve their character. "Good character and humanity" is the highest value of being a human being. After the defeat of the war, all the people of Japan worked hard and earnestly to achieve economic development, which has been called "miraculous revival," and a small island nation has now become the second largest economic power in the world. What sustained Japan's economic development during this period was the diligence, enterprise, and motivation of each and every one of its citizens, and the foundation for all of this was morality.
Japanese society must not be allowed to decline
Morals are the benchmarks for judging what is good and what is bad, which people need in order to survive. The fact is that in today's Japan, there are incredibly vicious incidents, juvenile delinquency is on the rise, and society is in decline. This is because while the economy has become rich, the minds of Japanese people have become poor, and the creation of wealth of the mind depends on morality. Moral education has become urgent.
The desire to do good
A particularly important part of the original moral heart of human beings is the heart of caring for others. The morality embodied in the thoughts of "wanting to help others" and "wanting to do something for society and the world" is what society and the world needs most today. If you keep thinking this way and make efforts, at some point your thoughts will surely be realized.
Young people who are responsible for the future should "want to do something good" and work toward that goal, and in that way your character will improve and your future, the future of mankind, will become even better.
Don't be discouraged by bad luck
In life, passion and mindset are much more important than ability. People who work hard and have the mindset to do their best for others, even if they are not very capable, will have a much better outcome in life than those who are good at what they do, but refuse to work hard and have a negative outlook on life. There is no need to be discouraged if you are a little less capable. Perseverance and a positive mindset will surely nurture you to the fruitfulness that you go for.
The goal of life is to pursue a good heart
The purpose of life is to be a good person. No matter how big you are the president of the group enterprise, no matter you have hundreds of millions or billions of assets, from the purpose of life in this sense, status, property does not have any value. The value of a person lies in the kind of personality he possesses. In order to mold our excellent character, this nature, this universe, and the gods give us all kinds of tests. These tests are not only disasters and misfortunes, but also successes.
The setbacks and trials of youth are opportunities to sharpen one's character
Success too early in one's life tends to breed arrogance and a life of luxury, and thus retribution will come. Experiencing many failures and setbacks can make the future evil life more mature and real, and happier.
Face the test
Primary school reunion to learn about the different experiences of each person, the profound impact is the class president. At that time, the study is very good to get into a good high school, at that time I always thought why I could not get into the test, suffered this bad luck. There must have been some envy and jealousy. Then his family's house was burned down in an air raid, and he fell from grace. His childhood success messed up his later life. This incident taught me that I should not be proud of good things, and I should not be depressed in the face of disaster, but I should accept the test positively as a motivation to keep on working hard, and to mold my personality in the process.
The Saigo Takamori who sharpened himself in the harsh test
Takamori is a historical figure I like very much, he was nicknamed "straw bag" when he was a child, he was an inconspicuous child, but later he became a noble character who was respected by the greats at the end of the Shogunate, such as Katsukai Boat, and he accomplished the historical achievement of the Meiji Restoration. The Meiji Restoration was a great achievement. He went through various severe tests in his life, and his experience tells us how to act when we encounter "tests" in life. Whether or not a person can succeed, this is the watershed moment.
Tenkaze Nakamura's life
Tenkaze Nakamura was a philosopher in the city council, and was an enlightened person who practiced yoga in India. Early uncontrolled, but also as a spy to infiltrate Manchuria, or suffering from tuberculosis, he went to the United States, Europe to explore "what is life" on the way back in Egypt met the Indian yoga saint Gariba, healed and became enlightened and returned to Japan to take up a number of important positions. In his later years, he gave up all his positions, such as president of a bank, and began to speak in the streets, traveling throughout his life to tell people the truth: "Everyone's life is determined by his state of mind, and his life will change because of a change in the way he looks at life. I have come to believe in this truth.
The outcome of life varies according to passion and mindset
The outcome of life = Ability * (multiplied by) Passion * (multiplied by) Mindset
Having a positive mindset will lead to a happy life
Frustration over the artificial bone business and the teachings of the Elderly
Kyocera has been involved in medical care since 1972, developing artificial tooth roots and artificial teeth by utilizing new types of ceramics. ceramics to develop artificial tooth roots and artificial bone. Laws governing pharmaceuticals and medical devices require that artificial bones and joints made from the same material need to be approved separately when they are made in new shapes or sizes. As a result, Kyocera had been selling the products long before the approval was obtained, and had done so in consideration of the needs of patients, but the division was suspended for one month for violating the law. Later I received some teachings from Elder Nishikata Tansetsu, who said, "That can't be helped, Inamori-kun, suffering is proof of being alive."
The day I was scheduled to enter Buddhism, I underwent surgery for stomach cancer
I believe that the purpose of life is to become a good person with a good heart, so when I reached the age of 60, I wanted to calm my mind and enter a monastery to study like a monk. Due to the matter of work delayed to 65 years old, at this time by the detection of stomach cancer. After surviving the stomach removal surgery, which was more painful than others, I shaved my hair and practiced at the monastery. Elder Saikatsu said to me again, "For you to return to society and play a role there is in line with the Buddhist path." So I withdrew from the front line of business and did something to benefit society - though little by little .
The Six Paramitas advocated by Shakyamuni
The Six Paramitas: charity, precepts, patience, refinement, meditation and wisdom.
All human beings have the "three poisons"
Shakyamuni said, "There are as many as 108 kinds of troubles in human beings, and among them, the 'three poisons' of greed, anger, and stupidity, i.e., greediness, vexation, and foolishness (giving vent to dissatisfaction), are the most difficult to to deal with."
Shaping Character
Shakyamuni said before 2005 that as long as one practically practiced the six, life would be happy and fulfilling. It is hoped that young people will study these six paramitas well to sharpen their minds.
Shaping the mind
Whether in sports or in business, success at a young age is something to be celebrated. However, once people are successful, they tend to get carried away and stop working hard. And success at a young age breeds many dangers. Young man, even if your career makes you satisfied, you must remain humble and continue to work hard. In this way, your mind will improve and your life will be better.