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It is certain that intuition can be trained and developed. The bewildered novice in chess moves cautiously, recalling individual rules, whereas the experienced player absorbs a complicated situation at a glance and is unable to account rationally for his intuition. -William Feller Bonus trivia: Feller is one of the few mathematicians outside of the Soviet Union to [...] Hachiko is a monument outside of Tokyo’s Shibuya train station that memorializes a dog with amazing loyalty. He was brought to Tokyo in 1924 by his owner Hidesaburo Ueno, an agriculture professor at the University of Tokyo. They established a pattern where Ueno would walk with Hachiko to the station in the morning, where [...] On the first working day of the year, Japanese company men and women are required to go to the nearest temple and pray for the well-being of the company. It is usually a corporate event, so entire offices walk together and crowd into temples in amazingly long queues. Corporate executives also take the time [...] The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -Edward Bulwer-Lytton Bonus trivia: Bulwer-Lytton coined the phrase “the pen is mightier than the sword” and the introductory line “it was a dark and [...] A little bit overdue, but here are the lessons that I learned from my new year’s trip through Tokyo 1) Success isn’t about being fast, it’s about making deliberate decisions that move in a good direction I’ve alluded to this in previous lessons learned and some of my quotes of the day, but my new father-in-law lives and [...] In regards to bringing syndication loans to Japan: The first was Citibank, absolutely. But Citibank could never be considered as the pioneering deal of syndication because they didn’t explain it in that way; they didn’t call it that. What I did was main stream. Sometimes, doing the deal is not important; the record that [...] |
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