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Professor Ken Mogi On Kodawari

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You Can't Be Perfect, but You Should Strive to Be Perfect

Even children have this idea of never being perfect, but always striving to be perfect. And that is something really a common, i think, commonly accepted in jabli culture. I mean, for example, everyone's embraced mindfulnessan and a lot of people would practise meditation. But i think if we could teach children this idea of codowadi, that you can't be perfect, but you can strive to o one aspect of something you're interested inyou. It'd be a great philosophy for the, for the whole world to learn. This is something very difficent vil but then i have a re honey anecdote. Wo te top japanese lessond oner a who had suddenly

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