It was cloudy and cold.
I went to Tokyo to attend the million seller writer Ken Honda's one day seminar. This is the second seminar of the three seminar series.
It's been a month since I attended last time. I met two participants who attended last time.
Today five participants made a group and conducted workshops. One of them was a 20 years old Chinese woman. I was surprised to hear that she started the primary school at the age of three and has already completed the college and had already 4 jobs experiences. She spoke Japanese well.
China is our neighbor country but I did not know that they starts school that early and they don't read books as we Japanese people do on the train.
It is interesting to get to know foreign people.
The most impressive person was a graduate of Harvard who studied brain science and published a book recently. The reason why he was so impressive was when he was a child he accomplished running marathon or something and felt great. At that time he decided 7 goals of 7 items each that means he has accomplished 49 items such as mastering 7 languages, mastering 7 musical instruments, and studying in 7 countries and so on.
The next impressive person was a man who wore kimono and hakama. And that kimono was made of cloth of jeans which I have never seen.
There was a publishing producer who helped to produce 1800 books in 32 years.
There was a picture book writer who has published a book and got brain stroke and stayed in hospital and could not do anything for several months. After recovering from that she wrote a book about her fighting illness story and now she has been invited by hospitals to talk about her experiences.
It is stimulus to hear layman 's success stories.
