or: Spicing Your Life up with Improvisational Comedy and Clinical Hypnosis.
One of my business consulting clients is multilingual, and is now working in Japan. He came to me one day saying “When I speak in Japanese with people at the company, they often reply back in English. It’s frustrating.”
I told him – they’re probably just trying to be helpful. You can compliment them. Say “Your English is very good – you’re very bilingual, and I need your help to learn to speak Japanese better. Could you reply in Japanese when I speak Japanese?”
Just when I said “Your English is very good,” my client burst out laughing, and took notes.
The principle at work is “Accept what you are offered.”
At the end of May, I decided to take a mini-retirement. After working for 6 years, it was just the right time for a sabbatical. “Sabba” is “seven” the seventh in a sequence has been the day of rest since old-testament times. Seventh day of the week is the sabbath. Seventh year of working is [...]
Yesterday, I helped the Chabad House of Tokyo put together a documentary about the making of kosher nori (dried kelp sheets). I didn’t pre-script any of the voice-overs. The hard part was getting the words to match the scenes transitions, and I found that the easiest way to do this was to record in segments, [...]
Having an adventure is… goint out and allowing things to happen in a strange and amazing new environment – not so much a physical challenge as a psychic one. -Rolf Potts This resonates with why I came to Japan: for adventure. I could have found a job in the states, but I was afraid of [...]
In Komazawa Park, there’s a dog run – a fenced area where you can unleash your dog loose and let it play with other dogs. Two weeks ago, I went to the dog run with a friend, and we brought her dog, Skye, unleashed it into the dog run, and watched it play. There were [...]
