Releasing my first new book in three years: 'Vision Driven: A Thinking Method Connecting Intuition and Logic'
I am pleased to announce that I will be releasing a new book from Diamond Inc. on March 7th.
VISION DRIVEN (Diamond Inc.)
A Thinking Method Connecting Intuition and Logic
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It was in August 2015 that I released my first book, 'Design Thinking for 21st Century Business.'
Since then, I have become independent along with the book and established the strategic design firm BIOTOPE, which is now in its fourth year.
While being on the front lines of various management, business, and innovation settings, I have felt one thing.
Ultimately, it is that each person needs the skill to face their own 'delusions'—their VISION—and live while giving them shape.
In this era where the future is unpredictable, those who will move the world are
those who have masterfully tamed their 'groundless intuition and assumptions' and their 'sensibilities and visions that others cannot understand.'
To tame them, it is necessary to connect intuition, sensibility, and logic—all the thinking methods that humans have cultivated from the beginning. Furthermore, I believe this is a thinking method that the human brain excels at, and in the face of the further super-evolution of computers in the coming era, it is conversely a 'non-logical' thinking method that only humans can perform.
The inspiration for writing this book began when I started thinking about the theme of what I would teach my daughter and son if I could only teach them one thing before this turbulent era.
We adults, and perhaps even the top political leaders, must live in an era where we cannot see the future at all—we and our children.
I wrote this in the hope that by making one's own VISION the driving force of life,
and by rotating the four-stage cycle of 'Delusion → Perception → Recombination → Expression' as 'Vision Thinking',
anyone can take the first step in a life where they begin to give shape to their VISION.
It is a work I poured my heart into, taking two and a half years from planning to completion, and condensing nearly 200,000 characters of content into half that length.
It all started when I had the opportunity to work with Takeshi Okada, the former manager of the Japan national football team.
'If you talk about your dreams, intangible assets will gather, and those will move tangible assets. Now is an era where adults should talk more about their dreams.'
I agree. And dreams should not just be talked about; we also need a method to turn elusive delusions into 'form.'
If more adults talk about their delusions and start giving them form, more children will be able to live lives where they can turn their dreams into form.
I imagine a future where this becomes a catalyst for corporate innovation, individual career choices, and children's education to change into a VISION DRIVEN model, and a society where children grow up hearing about realistic dreams and delusions.
And, to take even a small step toward such a society.
Contents:
Introduction: Between 'Mere Delusion' and 'Valuable Ideas'
Chapter 1: A Map of the World Surrounding 'Intuition and Logic'
・The threat of automation and VUCA closing in on the 'people of Kaizen'
・Three simple essences of design thinking
・Differences in the four thinking cycles—What is Vision Thinking? ...and more
Chapter 2: Thinking in the Most Human Way
・Four causes for people losing 'thinking that is true to themselves'
・'Creating white space' becomes the starting point for everything
・How to think with your 'hands' instead of being weeded out by thinking with your 'head'? ...and more
Chapter 3: Everything Starts with a 'Delusion'
・The 'Year-on-Year Supremacy' that hates groundless grandiosity—Issues and Visions
・Thinking about '10x growth' rather than '10% growth'—Moonshots
・Morning journaling for 'emotional output'
・Drawing out creative 'tension'—Magic questions ...and more
Chapter 4: Perceive the World in All Its Complexity
・How to polish your perception? Methods to avoid 'siloing' your mind
・Those who are 'good at fumbling' survive—Sense-making theory
'Vision Sketching' to turn delusions into a single picture
・'Cloud Hunting' techniques to enhance mode-switching ability ...and more
Chapter 5: 'Recombination' Techniques to Overcome Mediocrity
・It is better to start with a 'boring delusion' at first
・'Bullet points' fix ideas in place
・'Movable note-taking' to dramatically increase 'recombination power'
・Three checkpoints to encourage 'analogical cognition' ...and more
Chapter 6: If You Don't 'Express' It, It's Not Thinking!
・Iteration is the key to 'thinking with your hands'
・Early failure is a gain—'Bird's-eye view' and 'insect's-eye view'
・What hinders 'thinking with your hands'—Creating margins for expression 1
・'Visual notes' that enhance memory and creativity ...and more
Final Chapter: Can 'Delusions' Change the World?
・Asking again: Why start from 'Self Mode'?
・How to polish the 'technique of concretizing delusions' as seen in an artist's growth
・Re-examining delusions from the 'context of society'—Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
Afterword: An Era Where Dreams Drive Intangible Assets
Please give it a read!