What I Took From Mr.Kitashiro, and Vision of Future

On 2/3, Mr.Kitashiro, who is the president of IBM Japan, came to our classroom and gave us a very interesting lecture. I will write down what I got from his lesson, just not to forget that fruitful outcome.

1.Making Decisions
The story which was the most memorable was that about making decisions.
He told us that when you are 100% sure, that decision is too late. Therefore, we need the guts to decide, with 50 or 60% confident. Sometimes that decision may turn out to be a failure, but it is OK as long as you learn something from it.

I am kind of a person who decide slow, so I was little ashamed to hear this. I often delay my decision, and makes one just before the deadline, based on somewhat intention. As long as I don't delay the decision off over the deadline, it may be OK, but the problem is that I'm deciding with almost no logical confident. I would have to start faster, and finish faster.

2.Career-Design 
Another story that was interesting was the one about making career-designs. 
Mr.Kitashiro told that doing your best at where you are is more important than having career-designs.

The reason I thought this as an important story is from the experience I had this week. Last Wednesday, I had an interview with the staffs of Service-Learning Center. The interview was to check whether I am capable for the service learning program, and it was quite hard. There are several reasons for this, but the biggest reason is that there was a very difficult question in the interview.

One of the interviewers asked me about my "future vision", like what I want to do after graduating from ICU. This was very hard, because I haven't really thought about those very important issues. 

This experience and Mr.Kitashiro's lecture made me think about planning my future. In the end, I came up with the idea that the "future vision" may be the "long-term goal", so for now, I am thinking of my long-term goal.



Mr.Kitashiro's lecture was interesting and stimulating. I'm looking forward for the lecture by Hibiya-Gakuchou, too.