Where is the place where your potential is best realized?
Where is the perfect position for me?
I sometimes think about that.
A place where I can naturally exert my strength without forcing myself.
A place where I am happy, others are pleased, and I feel like I want to continue doing this.
I think if a person can find such a place, they can live quite happily.
The hints for that are the three things: will, can, and need.
Will means that you like doing it.
Can means that you are able to do it.
Need means that it is needed by someone.
Where these three overlap might be the position where a person's potential is best realized.
However, trying to find the overlap of the three all at once is a bit difficult.
If you think too much from the beginning about whether it will be a job, whether it will be sought by someone, or whether it will be useful, your true feelings become harder to see.
Therefore, first try writing down your will freely.
Things you like. Things you enjoy doing. How you want to be. What you want to become. Things you want to try someday.
Try writing them out broadly, including not just the feeling of liking something, but also your desires and aspirations.
Next, try writing down your can.
Things you can do. Things you have been good at for a long time. Things people often ask you to do. Things you end up doing naturally for some reason.
Then, look for the can within your will.
Conversely, look for the will within your can.
When you do that, there are things that will gradually come into view.
Things you like and are also good at.
There is usually some kind of energy there.
I want to get better at this.
I want to communicate this more clearly.
I feel happy when someone tells me, 'You saved me.'
I also draw strength from the moment the other person's expression changes.
Within that kind of energy, there are things that involve 'others'.
I think that is where the need becomes visible.
Things you like, are good at, and are also needed by someone else.
That is the intersection of will, can, and need.
In my case, what lies at that intersection is, after all, 'communicating'.
Communicating bookkeeping.
Communicating statistics.
Communicating pensions.
However, I do not want to communicate specialized knowledge in a difficult way just as it is.
Quite the opposite.
I want to communicate things that look difficult as clearly as possible.
I want to communicate them so that even those learning for the first time, or those who feel they are not good at it, can feel, 'Ah, so that's what it was.'
And if possible, I want to communicate them in a way that is a little fun and a little exciting.
Bookkeeping, statistics, and pensions all look difficult at first glance.
There is a lot of technical jargon.
It can sometimes sound like a complicated topic.
But in reality, it is also a very interesting tool that can change how you see your work and your life.
Bookkeeping shows you the flow of money and the movements of a company.
Statistics makes vague things a little clearer with numbers.
Pensions provide clues for thinking about how you work and live your life.
I want to convey these things not in their difficult form, but in a way that reaches the other person.
If possible, gently enough for an elementary school student to understand.
And in a way that is exciting, so that learning itself becomes a little fun.
I believe that is my will, my can, and my need.
Thinking about it this way, I believe that what lies within me is, after all, "conveying things clearly."
Conveying through lectures.
Conveying by speaking in front of people.
And conveying through writing.
Even if the form changes little by little, the core might be the same.
I am sure you have it too.
Things you like.
Things you can do.
And things that someone needs you for.
The place where those three things overlap.
It may be that this is not just a place where you achieve results, but also a place where you can be a little happier yourself.
Where is the place where your strengths are best utilized?
