Chasing”α”, not only”β”, as an Educator

Lesson from my students, after the state of emergency

Masahiro (Hiro) Nakagawa
3 min readNov 4, 2021

Coaching from Sub Zero — fighting against COVID-19 with Zoom / Autumn-Winter 2021–22 / Week 6

Credit; Hiro Nakagawa

At last, Japan eased the state of emergency on COVID 19 and gradually the traffic is coming back.

This week has a national holiday on 3rd Nov, and most of peoples are getting easy to take a little longer holiday (very healthy), and I am receiving some student’s visit from Kyoto to Tokyo at last!

One group visits with her family and one with her friend; One of them are still struggling to find job after the graduation and asked Kotaro, a leader of Nakagawa Zemi 0ki, to meet up that student in Ginza.

Normal teacher may ask that person to adjust her/his way for job hunting, but I am a kind of different animal. Each person has each strength and weaknesses, and I always try to find their strength mainly and seek the breakthrough together. Also I set these exercise at the counter at long running coffee shop in Ginza, then the shop master and even the other old customer there would help us at this exercise. This is exactly the Phronesis (http://nonaka-ik.org/nonaka/books/992.html), I believe.

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Masahiro (Hiro) Nakagawa
Masahiro (Hiro) Nakagawa

Written by Masahiro (Hiro) Nakagawa

Street Economist / Strategist, Founder of Nakagawa Zemi/Lab

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