I am catching up with reading what I wanted to read. Since I am learning English, I am trying to read magazines and books in English. As for magazines, I am subscribing Nikkei Asian Review, the Economist, and Physics Today from American institute of physics. I occasionally buy Foreign Affairs and Harvard Business Review. I am now enjoying these but, since English is not my native language, I forget as soon as I read them. That is sad actually.
I enjoyed The Harvard Business Review in May 2016, I can find interesting article every time I buy this magazine. I think I have a desire to be productive as a professional, even though I am a physicist, I like to learn from them about how they think about goal, achievement, managing, behavior, talent, professional, or so. I usually find one or two articles interesting. This time I quite enjoy reading on “increasing your return on failure” and “HP’s CEO Meg Whitman”. We can’t avoid failing unless you challenge. To succeed fast we need to fail fast, that I am thinking. And I am thinking about risk a lot because of my experience huge earthquake hit in Japan 2011. I have digested the meaning of risk. And I understood a lot of people don’t understand risk because they have just never experienced the failure beyond manageable. I don’t trust people who are saying I can manage the risk. But that is another story, on this article is about what can we get most when we fail. I think I learned a lot. For the “HP’s CEO Meg Whitman”, I quite enjoyed reading how HP’s CEO (who happens to be a female she says) thinks about gender problem and senses of urgency.
For the reason I am reading Nikkei Asian Review is because I am looking carefully at ASEAN countries. Japan and ASEAN countries should have close it is very important how these countries grow in next decade. I don’t know how China and Australia (because one third of Australia’s trade is with China) end up in this area, ASEAN countries are key to diversity and prosperity for Asia. Since I am a Japanese, I care about Japan. I need to invest more energy and money in this area from Japanese prospect.
I like to read the Economist. Sometime I envy English speaking countries because the magazine can survive because the number of subscribers of magazines are huge. I like the Economist because it has well balanced articles talking about all over the world. Some says you need to keep reading the Economist for 10 years to know world better. I understand now because because sometime I am unaware of some countries I don’t physically communicate but the Economist makes me curious about it every week so I can look it up. By keeping doing this I think I will be able to have a good understanding what the world is like.
These magazine are good source of books to read next, I read a lot but I want read a lot more. I could pick up several books to read. I will be writing more about this issues and magazines but I am not expert so I think I am writing for myself not to forget what I have read.
