sushitune comments

Superior? No way. The book may sell well, but intelligent people don't group think. Intelligent people challenge themselves to see how high they can go in life. Most Japanese - and I generalize with reservation - are orally-fixitated zombies who smoke and drink and fornicate on cue.

Here's the truth: Japanese are not superior nor inferior. Their mental health is tainted by a need to endure and to conform to standards. blonde hair, unisex pierced ears and overseas junkets may give an indication of sophistication, but it is totally superficial and slutty, if you ask me. Cigarette smoking aginst all warnings that it is a dangerous practice is passed on from one generation to the next without a wink.

No, Mr. De Mente. Japanese are not superior. Yes, they have created cultural traits worthy of emulation. But so can all cultures claim the same.

Education is the key to a successful life. But not the type we traditionally think about - reading, writing, history, math and science.

I'm talking about the mindset that teaches an individual to love learning rather than feel education is a means to an end. While it is that...it is much more.

I'm talking about the mindset that teaches every child how to work with and manipulate his/her world through core competence.

We should learn how to make money and how money works and can grow, from grade school onward.

We should learn how to repair and build the things which addict us in our rush to consume.

We should learn that an education is a neverending joy.

We should learn to delay gratification or have have our privileges taken away from us as a reminder of how grateful we should be.

Why is it that schools don't teach us to be rich internally and externally?

Why is it that ninety percent of the wealth of the world is controlled by less than 5% of the population?

Why do we sell a failed education policy as a mainstream avenue to success?

Yes, the government must intervene to restructure education systems to encourage thinking rather than random brave waves.

Yes, the government should intervene full force and emphasize that my piece of the pie needn't be smaller; we just need to create a bigger pie based on real rather than phantom value-added services(such as security houses are notorious for providing).

This Japanese man was sold a bill of goods that did not match his interest and ability. Japan is a sink or swim society because the price of conformity is that you must stop thinking and get busy. By doing so, you never have a chance to develop possibility thinking.

Too many people get this Japanese guy's story wrong and look down at him. The greatest leaders in business and commerce have arisen Lazarus-like after hitting rock bottom.

Rather than look down at this guy as a bum, you might want to wish you were him. Why? Because the only way he can pull himself up will be to think and do.

If we are not growing, we are dieing. That Japanese man is in a much better position to grow and thrive than his critics who feel cool and smug because they have some income and comfort.

We only condemn the downtrodden and the poor because of a poverty of ideas and an uneasiness when we see a world of despair which is uncomfortable to ponder.