"A Creative Dialogue"

                I am a rare Japanese university student. I study at home. But I don't 
            mean I do the school work at home. About 2 months ago, I started working on a 
            book written in English. I read a chapter a week, and then discuss  the chapter 
            with my father. The book I am doing, "The Kaisha", is a book analyzing the 
            Japanese firms when they were at their prime, during the growth period after the 
            war. The reason for my doing this assignment with my father is, 
            1)I need to improve my English, 
            2)while improving my English I wanted to work on a book that would be interesting 
            and profitable. 
            Since I am planning to join an internship this summer
            (I will explain about this internship in other paper), which means to actually 
            work for a company, studying about the companies which had the strongest business 
            method and growth rate is indeed an advantage. I am proud of what I am doing with 
            my father now. By doing this there are several benefits. Since the teacher is 
            stern, simply summarizing the book is not at all enough. I have to take in the 
            information I read from the book, reconstruct it in my head, and be able to 
            explain the chapter in my own words. By doing this, I feel that I am moving my 
            brain. A feeling I do not get when I'm doing school work, where there are a few 
            exceptions but most of them are done by rote memorization. I am sure that 
            creativity comes from a brain which is always spinning. Starting this dialogue 
            with my father and choosing a book to work on, I think, was a creative action. 
            So I will keep on spinning my brain and accelerate the popping out of creative 
            ideas from my head.

Written by Shunsuke Nagao
based on the his portfolio project of 1998



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