Salon Backstage Talk 043: Life = Experimental Ground—Learning from the Nobel Prize: 'Tips to Change Your Tennis with Curiosity'

A rush of Nobel Prizes. The underlying theme is 'curiosity' over 'fear'.
Professor Susumu Kitagawa: 'You have to enjoy research!'
Noriko Sakaguchi, wife of Professor Shimon Sakaguchi: 'Research is exciting!'
If you think of life and tennis as experiments, things will go well.

▶ Tips for turning every day into an experiment, seen in the Nobel Prize rush

The topic of the Nobel Prize is buzzing.

I just covered the topic of Professor Shimon Sakaguchi, who won the Physiology or Medicine Prize the day before yesterday.

Additionally, the Physics Prize was awarded to three people, including Dr. John Clauser from the United States.

It is said that they discovered that the 'tunnel effect,' where particles pass through barriers, can be realized on a macro scale like an electrical circuit (Related article: 'I'm not good enough' is an illusion—Learning 'Quantum Mechanical Piercing Power' from Close-up Gendai and Japanese Tennis').

Therefore, the books you are reading are actually impermanent, full of gaps and empty, and both the person in front of you and yourself are changing completely with every breath (Related article: Buddhism, which had already grasped the 'Uncertainty Principle').

▶ A 'careless' discovery guided by sensibility by Professor Susumu Kitagawa?

And for the Chemistry Prize, it was reported that Professor Susumu Kitagawa, a specially appointed professor at Kyoto University, won from Japan.

The reason for the award was the development of porous metal complexes with extremely small holes.

He says the trigger for the discovery was a 'long wait'.

He had been trying to increase density with various hole sizes, but he says he trusted his 'sensibility' when he accidentally found evenly aligned holes.

This perfectly matches the words of culinary researcher Yoshiharu Doi, who said, 'It's fine to be careless' ('Value your own sensibility over common sense and evaluation').

Being 'careless' (ee-kagen) is actually 'the right amount' (ii-kagen).

▶ It's okay to be dull, it's okay to be slow. Professor Kitagawa's 'Luck, Dullness, Perseverance' that opens up fortune

The term 'Luck, Dullness, Perseverance' (Un-don-kon) by Professor Kitagawa was picked up in the news, wasn't it?

'If you don't act cleverly, but sit down and continue with patience to the point of being dull, your luck will open up' seems to be his motto.

'Be a fool' and 'slowly fast' are what I think this leads to.

When people say things like 'luck,' it gives the impression of being the furthest thing from science, but it is still dependent origination connected somewhere (Related article: The 'mental mechanism' of 'lucky people' who turn even 'broken bats' into hits').

▶ 'Research is exciting!' by Noriko Sakaguchi, wife of Professor Shimon Sakaguchi

Now, what remains in my memory from the series of reports is a comment from his wife, Noriko, who attended the press conference of Professor Shimon Sakaguchi, who won the Medicine Prize, and has continued to support him as a co-researcher.

Research is exciting!

I am sure that improving at tennis will also go well with a Exciting Enjoyment Strategy!.

And it was the aforementioned Professor Susumu Kitagawa who said, You have to enjoy research!.