SUNDAY SPARK ⚡️ SESSIONS WITH ALEX MUIR

Good evening, Good evening, Cadres Fear. And welcome back. It's Sunday Spark Sessions. This is your host, Alex Muir, host of the Mindset podcast, content creator on my YouTube channel Ind. I'm only posting on YouTube now, keeping things streamlined. And I am back on Cadre and it feels great to be here. I know it's been a minute. I know you've been craving some content from my for myself. And I'm happy to be here. And I came prepared with some good, good, valuable lessons that I learned that me and my wife learned from Japan from our time away.

So our trip to Japan was about two weeks, October 23 to November 7, and it was an incredible, incredible trip. It was super incredible for a few reasons. And I'll dive right into those. So these are five timeless virtues from Japan to live by. This is everything that me and my wife observed while we were away. And these are some tried and true lessons and virtues that you can use and utilize in your own life. So let's get started. Number one, practicing patience. Shinbo Patience is something that we observed every single interaction.

Whether we were lining up for a restaurant, whether we're in the line for the grocery store, getting food, getting groceries. We mainly ate in like seven elevens and family marts and Lawson's. That was like kind of our daily breakfast. And you just observe the patience that the Japanese all, they all are very patient, like when you interact with them and stuff like that. And to them, patience is strength. So that's number one timeless virtue to live by. From Japan, our trip in Japan. Number two, persist with purpose.

Ganbaru. Ganbaru. Ganbaru means do your best. Even with small tasks or the smallest types of tasks. No matter what it is, no matter what you do or what you're doing, do it with your best. Ganbaru. Persist with purpose. So that's number two. Number three is respect. Raigi or Ragai in every interaction that we observed, the Japanese were polite, they were patient and they were very respectful. And we wanted to do the same because we're in a different country. We had never been there before. This is our first trip abroad to Asia, and we were blown away by the hospitality, the level of politeness, patience, respect, even when they don't know very much English.

And we, we wanted to learn as much as the language as we could. Although a lot of languages, some, some of the words and stuff were very complex. So we would Google Translate it, we would do our best for, you know, Arigatou. Kazaima says thank you, Ohio Gezaima that's good morning Kanbanwa. That's good evening Sai Nada. That's goodbye. And Sumima san, that's excuse me or sorry. So like when we made the effort to learn their language, even if we messed up or tripped up or slipped up, they really appreciate it.

And that's anywhere that's any country that you go to just, just like respecting their culture, respecting their language, and always trying to speak Japanese first, even if we flub it up, they really appreciated that. And we noticed that when we were in the grocery store or like in the family Mart, Seven eleven's Lawsons, restaurants, shops, wherever we were, if we try and do speak Japanese first, they really appreciate that because it just shows that you're making an effort. So that's three, Number three.

Raigai. Yeah. Urugai has respect in every interaction. Number four is value. Group cohesion, a Japanese culture. Everyone walks in unison. Everyone's running to their train or their bus in unison. I've never seen anything like it. It's organized chaos. And we traveled to Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka and Okinawa. Five cities in two weeks. And it was busy. We were busy every day we wanted. We were seeing a temple or two a day. We were going to all these restaurants. And it was an incredible trip. And we did build an itinerary with a Google Dock using AI, using ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.

And that was an absolute game changer. And that combined with watching YouTube videos a couple times a week for nine months and preparation for that trip was very helpful and it was super inspiring. And then it all. Everything lined up. Everything lined up so beautifully when we, when we got there and when we arrived. So it was an amazing trip. And the Japanese word for group cohesion or valuing group cohesion or social harmony is wa. Like the Mazda commercial, Mazda car commercial that you see, it's all they're all about.

Wa. Wa means social harmony, collaboration outweighs competition. And number five, seek consensus for the greater good. So group cohesion, group consensus. So we got group cohesion. Wa. Group consensus is kaigi. Kaigi or kagai. Yeah, Kaigi. What benefits one should benefit all is what they is a big part of their culture. Kaigi. Which benefits one should benefit all. So which one of these values. Sorry, which one of these virtues could you bring into your life this week? Based on what I've said, and I will try and I'll do a.

I'll do a photo of this. Actually, that's even better if you guys can read my writing. But I'll probably type it too because my writing is definitely not but I have them right here. Anyone that's watching right here if you can read my chicken scratch writing. So I'll repeat it one last time and then I will type it in the chat after this or I'll do a post under my my chat my page if you want to utilize any of this. So these again five timeless virtues from Japan to live by Shinbo Practicing patience Patience is strength.

Persist with purpose Gambaru Gambaru do your best even with the smallest of tasks. Respect Bragi in every interaction. Value group cohesion. Collaboration outweighs competition and seek consensus for the greater good. For benefits one should benefit all and that's Kai Gi. And again, which of these virtues would you bring into your life this week that would build and build make the biggest impact for you? Thank you all for tuning into this life and I will write in these virtues Japanese virtues to live by for from now until the future in in the chat.

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