素材記事：Simon Sinek says the most successful people in the world ‘hit zero’ or came close to it: Failure is ‘the gift’
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Simon Sinek, a top-tier motivational speaker, is frequently cited in marketing and design thinking contexts. His TED Talk with over 2 million views is a must-watch! Though his is quite fast-paced English.
“I have never met a successful person in my life who learned anything when things went well,” Sinek told Chris Williamson on his podcast, Modern Wisdom. “They learned every lesson they needed to learn that helped them achieve when things went horribly wrong.” Absolutely true. Only those who can learn everything possible from tremendous failure become truly outstanding leaders.
In other words, as long as you stay within your comfort zones, learning is severely limited. Speaking only your native language, associating only with fellow countrymen, focusing solely on the domestic market, faithfully following the “(self-proclaimed) formula for success” that “everyone” else is doing… Writing this gives me bad chills, but honestly, isn’t this how over 80% of Japanese people live?
The only people who can somehow “get away with”that old-world lifestyle until it’s worn thin are roughly those over 45 today. Neither Gen Y nor Gen Z fits into this category. You’ll be living in the world that we haven’t seen yet.
That’s precisely why young people should stop doing such lame things as joining the ranks of those old men and women from the Showa era. Instead, they should boldly forge ahead with the next generation’s mindset and behaviors.
And I hope Gen X parents and leaders keep chanting their line,“Am I getting in the way…?”like a mantra. Luring them into a world that won’t exist under the guise of “It’s for the children!” is like slowly making them drink water laced with poison.
マーケティングやアート思考の文脈でもよく引用されるのが、motivational speakerとしても一流のサイモンです。彼の200万視聴回数以上のTEDトークも必見!かなり早口の英語ですけどね。
“I have never met a successful person in my life who learned anything when things went well,” Sinek told Chris Williamson on his podcast, Modern Wisdom. “They learned every lesson they needed to learn that helped them achieve when things went horribly wrong.” は、全くその通り。とんでもない失敗から多くを学び切ることができる人だけが、抜きん出たリーダーとなるのです。
つまり、comfort zonesにとどまっている限り、学びはとても限定的。母国語だけを喋り、母国人とだけ付き合い、国内市場にだけ気を向け、”みんな”がやっている「（自称）成功の方程式」を忠実になぞっていく行動様式…。書いていて背筋が寒くなりますが、実は8割以上の日本人がやっているのではないでしょうか。
その生き方でもなんとか「逃げ切れる」のは、耳にタコができるほど繰り返していますが、ざっくりといま45歳以上の人たちだけです。Y世代もZ 世代もそこには入れない。
だからこそ、そんな昭和時代のおっさんやおばさんの仲間入りをするようなかっこ悪いことは止めて、若者は次世代のメンタルセットと行動様式でバリバリ開拓していけばよろしい。
そして、彼らの「邪魔をしてないかな…？」というセリフを、X 世代はマントラのように唱え続けて欲しいと思います。「子供のため！」と今後存在しない世界へ誘うのは、少しずつ猛毒を含んだ水を飲ませているのと同じなんで。
