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武井壮の　『オトナの育て方』

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The lecture emphasizes that true value in life and career is not solely determined by innate quality or skill, but by the demand and appreciation from others, advocating for continuous learning and self-development to meet societal needs and fulfill personal dreams.

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Special class for "Otona-no-Gakko"

"Senshu University"

Tonight, for the people who need to grow as adults

A man who has got huge passion for one's life will have a lecture.

"School for Adults"

School for Adults, This is Takei Sou from "all kind of animals", nice to see you guys today.

(laugh)

Takei Sou

Once he has become a champion for decathlon.

This August, he has become a champion again at the international 100m race for people who are more than 35 years old.

He has kept challenging himself to be a "all kinds of animal".

Looking at the world today makes me think that

world seems like adults have not done its work and children tend to try to do adult's work instead of them.

Children always do whatever they want to do and adults

do hardest job without saying anything or

they get bored easily.

I just feel weird when I saw those situation between adults and children.

What I am going to talk about is " How to educate Adults"

It might sounds like I talk big but I would like to talk about

How adults should be in this society. Because

I have been learning so much by being in the show business teaches me about it.

If there is anything that you can learn from me, that is all what I hope today.

42 years old now and I am still wearing a short pants today

Moreover, I have been researching how to beat animals or I go to jangle and

trying to survive or

I do those stuff such as children want to do as my job

And I really love what I do today

Seriously, I am having a such a great life

But, let me talk about my childhood.

I was pretty isolated by my parents. And I have not spent much time with my mother.

And my dad was quite wild person and he had another family.

I had brother too but we could not live with our dad.

Therefore, I grew up with my brother by ourselves.

My brother and I had to figure out the way to go to school,

and we had to do all the house work when we come back from school.

We thought that this is normal.

At the time, I did not feel that it was hard or anything but I always wondered that

why there are mom and dad in another family then I have not got one in my family.

But I was curious at anything, I wanted to go school and I was interested in sports as well.

Unfortunately, I did not have any money to go to school.

So what I did at the time is I searched a school that I can get full scholarship if I get a good score in the first exam

and luckily, I could get in the school

I did not have to pay any money for the school for 6 years.

I am not saying that I was genius or smart

I had to just study. That was my situation.

So I sat down first low in the class and

if I got a textbook, I just read all the pages before the year started.

Again, I am not saying that I was ambitious or competitive,

I just had to do it otherwise, I could not go to school.

Such as workers today,

they always feel forced to go to work to live from the morning until night.

This is how I felt about school when I was kid.

Now, I am in the show business and

I have got a good income from it and i am having such an adult's life today

Even when I was an athlete, I have become a champions couple times but

i could barely made $10000 in the year.

Maybe the year that had more income was

Probably I was making close to $20000 in the year but now somehow I can see two more zeros

I am sorry if

you felt like overwhelmed by listening to my talk about my incomes..( laughs)

I actually have thought to live through my whole life by getting more high physical ability.

And I thought I can do anything if I could get a good physical abilities.

This is when I was grade 4 or 5.

But majority people say that Japan is a

hard to country to live by having a job like something you just playing or being a sport athlete.

Japan is not the easy country to live by doing those

Besides, not few people have failed who tried to live their life by doing those jobs.

People like me who wanna be a sport player in the university practice so much there but they feel stuck from not improving.

This is a reality of people who wanna be a sport player and I did not want fail to be a professional.

I studied so hard to be a top at academic when I was kid that I even hated to do.

And I really really wished to have a job that I really love to live.

I wanted to a successful person so I made a theory to be a sport player.

And I would like for you to listen to this.

For example,

There is a kid who wants to do sport

and the kid has this amount of ability to achieve something.

I want you to think that width shows the ability and this length of this circle

will be same

no matter what the kid trains. No matter, kid has got stronger muscles

from the training, this length of the circle will be thicker but not gonna be longer.

Let's say if one kid started to do baseball.

And the kid especially trained his batting skill from hitting thousands of balls

Now I want you to imagine, this kid has this much of ability and if he trained batting

his ability will shape like this stripe

Putting so much work or effort in one industry, shapes your ability that used to shape a circle one stripe

And as high as it gets, the means you have got more skilled

Does it make sense?

For example,

the track and field player who can run 100 m within 10 seconds shapes this ability circle

a stripe that does not even have width.

its shape looks like just pointed

But don't forget that inside of this shape is the ability of the player.

So if the player went to outside of this pointed stripe, he is just a human being.

Make sense?

What I am trying to say is there are many athletes people and students who played sport for 10 years so hard

And when they graduated, they can't be a professional to live as sport player.

This is what is happening today.

It is close to gamble.

Train hard to be a sport player is gamble

So I started to think about what I need to train to not to play a gamble but to be an athlete.

But there were so many things

that happened to discover.

I am not sure if you guys have heard before on TV,

when I was grade 5

I was playing baseball with my friends

And I wondered that how come I want to hit home-run every time but I cannot do it.

I felt weird for not being able to do it. Do you know why I could not hit home-run every single time?

There is water in front of you.

You have never felt you wanna drink this water but you cannot actually drink this water

Make sense? If I feel I wanna drink, I am not gonna bring here and say "oh"

or " oops" or "aggggg" by bringing any other places, I just have to pour into my mouth

and drink it

But isn't it weird? that you wondered you wanna do "this"

" wanna drink water" " wanna do something" and you can actually do those.

Then how come I cannot hit a home-run

I wondered so hard and I asked all the teachers and student who was in university for sport. I asked all the adults

Why can't I hit this home-run? And nobody knew the answer

And they say " even the actual baseball player can't even hit a home-run,

or even top class of professional baseball player can't neither. So this is what it is." to me.

Then I go "so it just happened coincidentally ?"

And they said "it is not fully a coincident. They definitely practiced hard. So I guess

if you practice harder, you will have more possibility to hit a home-run"

Honestly, I felt helplessness to gamble my life for 10 years on something that I might gonna have a good coincident if I am lucky but most likely not.

Then I tried to think what I should do but I had no idea for a while.

And at the time, it was like 30 years ago,

Video camera started to be sold at market.

It was like VHS and huge camera.

And my dad brought one to my home and he filmed me while I was playing a catch ball.

I realized that I was doing totally different thing.

At the time, I was a big fan of Seibu Lions and I was copying one of the pitcher from the team.

But I was using totally different kind of forms.

Then

I realized

When I can do whatever that I can do

I am doing something that I can obviously control because I can see what I am doing

When I can actually look and touch.

For example, when I throw the ball away, I can't see my hands behind my head

This is not where I can control

Somewhere that I can't see

Such as legs, you don't see anyone who walks like this right?

You will never see any baseball player who always watches one's legs or just looking at the ball whole time

Right?

This was the answer to my question.

I thought I was moving right but I was not moving right at all.

It made sense to me so much. If I kept playing baseball without realizing this, I will have an ability that shapes like just pointed that I showed you guys.

My ability was quite small

so what I decided to do first was

practicing to be able to move my body in the way that I want and start to play any sport.

when I stretch my arms

to the side, my arm tried to go higher than horizontal line.

My arms were higher than my shoulders.

I thought they are pretty straight. But they were not.

I disappointed on myself for not being able to stretch my arms even straight when I can't see them.

I started to practice to be able to control my arms in many different directions everyday.

In fact, body is all connected

let's say if you wanna stretch your arms,

if you try to try to pull your middle fingers to the most far point, your arms gonna be in the middle.

It is quite interesting but farthest point would be easier to know where the horizontal line.

Once you know that feeling, you will recognize if your arms are higher or lower.

Make sense?

And if you know where the top, you will be able to recognize if your arms are little in or out.

Your body will be able to

tell where your body parts are more clearly than before.

And I have been practicing in every joints since the time

As a result of this practice for a month,

you will be able to copy the shape and forms of the sport player had when you look at the picture of them

than any other players who are in your team .

I really think that people can have more knowledge than people around you if

you keep putting your effort for a month to search for something that you want to know.

This is just my story but, when I was in university , I started to track and field.

And at the time, I still had been practicing.

And I became a champion as a Japanese player after 2 years of those training exercise and also the research for track and field.

However, after I became a champion

Are there many people who know about decathlon, right?

Do you know anything about decathlon?

There are no much people, in fact.

But I really thought that this is valuable.

There is an actual rule in All Japan Championship.

It had happened almost 80 times at the time, and if I won, I will be a winner in all Japan in the industry.

But if I look at outside of the world,

nobody knew what I have achieved. That was the reality.

And I could not make an enough money or have economic value at all.

I was like "wait a sec." and " what have I done just now?"

This made me learn little by little that

"what is valuable things to do in this world."

I have even tried playing golf, and I have become able to play within par every time within the year.

I thought I might be able to actually make money to live by doing this.

But in fact, there are 50 thousands people to 200 thousands people who can play par in golf in this world.

And there are tons of people who are called professionals above of those people.

And I realized that I cannot make an enough money no matter I became a professional player

I have thought many other things as well and some what I was already 30 years old.

And very shocking event has happened.

I am not sure if you have heard before but I did not have my home for 8 years.

I did not have my home since 31 years old to 39 years old and there are reasons to it.

While I was struggling at the time,

I met a show business man, well he is a comedian actually

I started to hang out with him to grab dinner or go to play baseball.

Because of him, I started to have more connection with people who are in the show business.

Gradually,

I started to see somethings that I have never seen

I saw many people naturally became more smile when they met those people who I hanged out with

Besides, if they started to talk, people laughed or smiled even more

When I saw it, I was very very shocked to notice that

Those people have somethings that I really want to have, those people looked actually magicians to me ( laughs)

At the time, I saw Naotaro Motiyama who is a singer or Pieru Taki or even other people

And when those people who sang in the live

5 thousands of people or even 10 thousands of people stared to be happier or cry

I was like " it totally made sense. This is something that I do not have but they do."

I started to notice little by little.

What does make things valuable is this only thing.

It is very simple thing.

But this is it.

It's the number of the demands from people

It is quite shy to say this by myself but I believed that I had a very high quality as sport player.

I had an ability to get a champion of all Japan in any kinds

I actually had a good quality as a sport player

However I was not a valuable person at all, because not many people demanded for it

For example, if I made a product that actually has one of the best quality

it is actually one of the best best quality in this world

however, I did not advertise in any places and I have not sold even one

Is this product valuable in this world?

No, right?

But if I made a product that is top 10 popular

And almost everyone in this world use it and everyone wants to get one and I sell this almost a billion in the year.

Doesn't this make a huge value in the economic?

I think this is what the valuable means in the society

Let's take a look at the track and field sport,. Majority people know what is track and field

But if I give you the example of this sport ,

in Japan, there 100 m, 200 m, 400 m and even more athletic event

Let's say there are 25 kinds

And women side has 25 kinds as well. If I add both, there are 50 kinds of athletic event.

In all Japan Championship, there are 50 people each who will compete in one kind.

If there are 50 people who will compete in one kind,

there are total 2500 people in this championship.

It has been said there are 2500 people who will compete in this highest peak game in Japan.

And the national stadium that we know it currently was broke down had

capacity for almost 50 thousands people to 60 thousands people but let's say if any stadium had 50 thousands people

the stadium is surely full of people. The way those 2500 people make the stadium full

is one player

needs to have 20 people to come in this stadium

However, I have never seen any stadium that has been full of audience before.

There are only 10 thousands of people or even less

who want to watch the game with top athletes in Japan which usually happens only once

That has been said one player has less value than 20 people

One person can't call even 20 people in the stadium

This is the reality of what happening in the sport world "Number of the demands from people decides what is valuable thing"

I have been feeling weird about the sport world today

Many people talk about educating kids

" let's educate kids to be a good player."

I agree that Japanese sport has got higher level averagely from educating kids.

I know that there are top athlete like Nishikori Kei or

Ishikawa Ryo or Matsuyama Hideki or

there are lots of good players like Otani player or.. There are lots of good players today

But there are more players who have not achieved to be there

Why they have not achieved to be the top? Because not many people who want to watch the kind of sport

This is the reason why many player can't be a professional

They can't have enough people. IF, one player could have 100 people to come watch

there are 250 thousands people who want to come to watch.

That means the tickets for the game that maximum can have 50 thousands people will be sold out in a day.

I really think having more people who want to come watch means more valuable thing but

there are many parents who force kids

who does not know anything about it to play sports or any other things

that you have trained when they were young,

and the kid can't even guess how valuable the sport will be in the society in the future.

The kid is threw in the wave of the industry

Besides, the kid needs to force the body that can't even move in the way that the kid wants

The kid needs to practice no matter he/she doesn't know if he/she is lucky enough to be successful in their life

And the kid needs to compete with many people to be the top

I really think that this education system for kids in the sport world

will educate kids to be a half-finished player.

I really think it is not effective

If I was a parent of my kid, I will let the kid to finish compulsory education such as elementary school and junior high school

And I will force my kid to go to

India.

I want my kid to go to India from High school.

Indian people has developed math so much.

Simply, they teach binary notation and more to use PC

in their education system.

Besides,

they speak English

and Hindi as common language

If you go to Silicon valley US, you will find many Indian people work there as engineer

I think India will be more high class in this world because of it.

So I want my kid to have enough knowledge since young age

to be able to start own business with just a PC

I want my kid to have the enough ability to do those before my kid graduates from high school.

Also, I want my kid to start some sport here with my knowledge. Maybe I will let my kid start cricket.

Do you really know anything about cricket?

Cricket is played with second most populated players in this world.

First most populated sport is succer ball.

Second is cricket. Does anyone know how much the most rich cricket player make per year?

Can you guess how much?

Richest baseball player makes almost like 5 billions yen right?

Do you know how much top player make?

"1 billion?"

27 billions

You did't know that right?

You can't even compare with baseball player but reason is quite easy

India is populated with almost 12 billions people

It is 10 times than Japanese population

As everyone know, if the population is bigger, company feels more valuable to invest

You gonna notice that any television talks about cricket as soon as you got off from the plain in India because

cricket is like national sport in India.

People in India know most of cricket player

because every championship has got more than 80% of viewing rating.

And they release the game on TV for 2 days

Because the game lasts like forever

Many company cooperate for the game

And almost 12 billions people who watch see the name of the company on the edge of the starium.

They effectively advertise their PR in the game.

Nobody studies like those knowledge before they start playing sport

But if we all know those knowledge well, don't get it twisted, I am not saying that you should not play those sport

I am saying that we can prevent our kids to have a life like a gamble for 10 years by

teaching them how to move their body properly in the way that they want

or even teaching them how much economic value the sport has that they are playing

Is there any parent who has researched those information for

their kid for even 2 hours or 3 hours?

I think the real education is teaching them how to move their body in the right way,

the value of the sport, and how far they need to make to get a certain value as a player

in the society and sharing those with kids

this is what we need to do for our kids

Real education for kids in sport is Teaching them how to move their body properly. Teaching them how valuable thing in this world of the sport that they play.

As I said before,

seeing entertainers who make whoever they see happy and smile

This is what the definition of

being important for people

And from there, I decided to change my purpose to play sport

I wanted people to watch me

to be happy like the entertainers who I met.

Since the time, many things has changed in my life.

I noticed the reason why I trained so hard was because

I wanted to be a champion, successful, rich and stronger

And I played game for this goal but everything was just for myself.

I just wanted to be a famous. I was totally wrong.

Those people who I met were not seeing the value just because they are in the show business.

They see their value from making people around them smiles and being happier.

I have realized those from going to watch their lives and more.

What I am trying to say is "quality" does not equal to the person's or the product's value.

Any quality of the sport, or the quality of the product

or even how funny my talk does not relate to the value.

The value is how many people who are smiling and being happy from watching whatever I do.

I started to do activities as soon as I realize this when I was 30 years old.

But I did not have any skills to talk in front of people to make them smile.

This is why I stopped living in the house.

I went to the bar which comedians always go in Nishi Asabu with the recorders that I hided in my jacket or shoes or bags

And after I went, I edited so that I can

just listen to wherever that people laughed at from all the talks that comedians did.

And I just kept listening to the CD that I made in the car.

It took me 8 years.

I took me 8 years to be able to copy their tones, space and any words

copying exactly like them in the car

And this year,

at World Masters Athletics Championships

I became a champion of the race that is like granfathers who are more than 40 years old races to be a fastest

I was not satisfied with my score

I'm pretty sure that professional athletes can run way faster than me

But some how, the news about me was top of the Yahoo! news an hour after France time.

I am very very grateful even now

I really think that my value that I have , my income that I have

whatever that I have now was not created by my value

Obviously, what you all are giving me

No matter what kinds of job that you have, what kind of hobby that you have, what kind of hope that you have, what kind of dream that I have

If nobody needs that, I do not think it is valuable.

I think this is truth because when I was 30 years old,

I had No.1 quality as player in Japan for a while, however, I made no money.

This is why I want young generations and young athletes to think that they want to be like me

"Why the person

has many people who support him, good income and having a job as sport player which he loves to do

no matter he has never achieved to have a high scores?"

My ability as champion could not have even 20 of supporters at the time

but now, I have 100 and 1000 of supporters. I did not know anything like this before even

when I was playing sports or started to play sports or being a champion.

I have studied a lot and have been given lots of jobs from morning to evening

but still I make sure to train myself for one hour at the end of the day

I gain the ability that I do not have now

I make sure to develop my skills than yesterday.

And also, if I heard anything that I did not know from the news on TV,

I do research for an hour as study. So I total take 2 hours

This is something that I make sure to give myself as present in a day no matter how late I finish my work.

I am Takei Sou who has got a soul like kid

I have never been employed in my life. I wonder I might be able to live

adult world as who I am, how innocent I am.

I would be happy if I can do that. Lastly, I recommend you guys to

put your effort for yourself to have some new knowledge or

try to develop your new ability for 10 min , 20 min or 30 min

If any of you have any dreams now within you, I guarantee that you can make it happen

and to tell this message is my purpose to live as a sport player

I want every kid to live

their childhood as who they are without worrying about anything

and say "my father made dream come true after all the young age by spending his 1 hour in a day

so no matter if I failed to be a player

or at my academic or failed my exam or failed at job hunting,

we all can still have a dream."

"I will make it happen because I know how to use my time so just follow my back."

"I promised to make dream come true!" I want people to be able to say this no matter how old you are.

And I believed that this is the real relationship between child and adult.

This is all what I think and see adult needs to know today.

Lecture for the adults and how to develop adult people with Takei Sou

Thank you so much for your listening and thank you so much for having me here.

The way to develop adults people is being able to show kids that "You can dream come true no matter how old you get".

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