Environments Shape People, and People Shape Environments—My Journey from Banking to "Instant Execution" and "Automation" | 🪶 Chapter 1

When I read an article about the "5-Second Decision Rule," I suddenly wondered where my "instant execution ability" was nurtured.

Looking back, it was when I worked at a bank. In an environment where accuracy and speed were demanded above all else, my body learned to move faster than I could think.

However, when the environment changes, the status quo collapses in an instant. In a workplace without systems, I realized for the first time the existence of the "accuracy that the system had been supporting."

What started from there was a small attempt to rebuild the system with my own hands. Excel and automation were completely self-taught at first. However, in that process, I came to experience the cycle that "environments shape people, and people shape environments."

This is a record of how the "instant execution ability" I cultivated at the bank eventually evolved into a new form called "system building."

🪶 Chapter 1: The Trigger and the Origin—Reflexes Nurtured by "5 Seconds"

The other day, I read an article and suddenly thought about the source of the "instant execution" within me.

It was Fujiwara-san's article on the "5-Second Decision Rule."
Following the words, "If you act within 5 seconds, your life will change," I remembered the origin of the "instant execution ability" within myself.

Fujiwara-san's article is here👇

──Ah, my "5 seconds" had been etched into some part of my body, inevitably, for a long time.

Looking back, the place where my career began was a bank.
There was a strict rule of "cash on the spot," which served as the foundation for all actions.
Handling money in front of customers is a precise world where even a 1-yen error is not tolerated.
Moreover, a moment of hesitation or stopping would halt the entire operation.
That is why training to polish speed of judgment and accuracy simultaneously was built into every daily movement.

A world where one constantly thinks, "How can I process this more accurately and faster?"
Thinking and moving happened almost simultaneously.
As I continued for a long time, I feel that sensation grew like "muscles of thought."

While it was a precise world dealing with numbers, what was required was rhythm and tempo.
It was just like a sport.

Come to think of it──.
The sailing competition I was obsessed with during my student days had the same principle of action.
If reading the wind was a moment late, the boat would be swept in an unexpected direction.
The angle of the sails, weight distribution, steering adjustments.
Everything depended on split-second judgment.
It was a sensation where the boundary between thinking in my head and moving my body disappeared.

That "sensation of reading the wind" from back then was connected to the bank's workplace.
The only difference was the stage, but the "instantaneous accuracy" required was the same.
And as I spent a long time in such an environment, I think I polished my "ability to think" and "ability to move" at the same time.

Thinking about it now, it was not a personality I was born with, but a reflex that the "environment" had instilled in me.

──However, it was only after leaving that environment that I would hit a major wall.
In the next chapter, I will talk about that surprise and realization.

⛵ The next chapter is here👇