The Book of Adventure/Taizo Son/2023/★★★★☆

A book by Taizo Son, who has a modern-day great business leader, Masayoshi Son, as his younger brother. As the subtitle 'Unlearning in the AI Era' suggests, this work confronts common sense head-on—asking why questions like 'Why is school boring?' and 'Are basics important?' arise, and what we should do about them. Taizo Son has explored history so thoroughly that one might wonder if he has too much free time lol, and he has edited it in a manga/novel style to make it easy for readers to digest. I feel like it cleanses the soul when read while feeling mentally exhausted.

▼ Recommended for
・Those interested in education

▼ Impressive points
・Without being bound by age, status, or the common sense of the world—or what 'adults' say—I decided to trust my own instincts and set out on an adventure, daring to do things where I knew the risks and didn't know if I would succeed.
・Isn't the root of school essentially a factory for mass-producing humans like industrial products? No wonder studying is boring. (Omitted) The problem is that this mass-production education is already outdated, yet it hasn't changed at all even after more than 200 years.
・There is no need to be obsessed with 'basics.' Learning should be freer and much more fun. Trapped by the idea of seeking productivity and efficiency in everything in life, we spend most of our lives doing uninteresting work just to keep earning money, living with anxiety about the future.
・A world where everyone believes that 'the best way to make the world run smoothly is to fill it with gifts,' and where each person can live as they like while belonging to diverse communities.