My Past (and Present?) Self

Introduction

　This time, I will be writing down my thoughts on this book.

　The reason I picked up this book was that I had known the author, Yuki Terada, from the Horiemon Channel for a long time and followed her on social media, so when I saw on social media that she was releasing a book, I added it to my wishlist. Four months later, when I was recently struggling with dialogue, I remembered that this book had been released and decided to read it.
　From here on, I will be writing my thoughts with spoilers included.

Main Chapter

Initial Impressions

　Personally, I felt this book was more true-to-life than any I have read before. Most books I have read until now have left me impressed or surprised, but this book had more parts that I could empathize with than ever before, and I felt it had a different vector of interest compared to previous books.
　It also served as a lifeline for me, as I have recently realized with shock that I am bad at communication. I hope you will read the book for the details, but it is full of various know-how and mindsets regarding communication. Anyone who feels they are bad at communication should definitely pick it up.

Past Ideology Synchronized with the Author

　As I have written before, I tend to choose books based on the author. The content is secondary. Therefore, I often read books as a context for the author's life.
　The author's life in this book overlapped quite a bit with my own self from up to a year ago. I hope you will read the book for the details, but simply put, the author was a super stubborn person in the past. She was too headstrong, wouldn't listen to other opinions, and ended up lost. I was like that just a year ago too. Because of that, there were parts of my life where I struggled with human relationships. Thinking about it now, I want to express my gratitude to those who still interacted with me.
　Sticking to your own beliefs is important at times, but the prerequisite is not to become self-centered. The book says this is very important. I think that is exactly right. I want to gift the author the two characters for "Agreed."
　And when you become self-centered, you fear change, get left behind by the times, and mess up your human relationships. I understand the feeling of fearing change, but it would be best if you could learn to enjoy change. In fact, it seems the author has come to enjoy change. What about me?
　Hmmmm.

What is Good Communication?

　First, I will summarize the definition of good communication as stated in this book.

　Personally, what caught my attention was 4. You can go beyond imagination. For a moment, I tilted my head wondering what that meant, but once I saw the explanation, I was convinced. Let me introduce it a little.
　To give an example, when you are asked to talk, wouldn't you be happy if someone dug into your professional field or academic specialty? At the very least, I would happily talk about it. When it comes to a specialty, I don't usually talk about it myself because it's generally not understood by the average person, but when someone asks about such things, I feel happy because I feel like they asked about my core.
　If you ask someone a question that takes a step forward like this, they will be happy. I could only agree with this. I also happily talk about Tokusatsu if asked. I thought I would try to be conscious of asking questions like this too.

Conclusion

　It was a good book. What I have written here is only a small part. If you are interested, please read it.
　This is completely unrelated, but while I was reading this book, the author Yuki Terada announced her marriage. Personally, it was so timely that I was astonished. Well, anyway, I want to congratulate her.
Congratulations on your marriage.🎉
　I would like to continue to watch over the life of the person I have watched on the Horiemon Channel—I was honestly a little sad when I heard she was graduating from the Horiemon Channel—if I may be so bold.