"I've been a clown at all times, that's my style.

In April 2015, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun serialized "My Resume", and I was surprised by the response. Of course, I also knew that there would be criticisms of my tasteless past. Thank you all for reading the first half of my life, which has a mixed reputation. "No Luck Is an Accident: The Autobiography of Akio Nitori, Founder of the Japanese Retail Chain Giant NITORI", this sentence is written by the author of the book at the end of the book.

When I read this autobiography, I didn't feel like I had seen the founders or helmsmen of other industry giants before, "Ah, how can I have such a quality" and "This kind of feeling, a person like me can't understand it", in the first half of the book, I was depressed by the abuse and bullying that Mr. Nitori was subjected to when he was a child, and the later experience didn't seem to give me much feeling, and it wasn't magnificent, if there was anything special, it was that Mr. Nitori's store was about to go down, so he went to fool people and cheat money. The little people in the autobiographies don't have the natural talent of the big people, they don't have the strong qualities of working one or two hundred hours a week after work, and they don't have the unique insight into things that economists or mathematicians do.

Mr. Nitori's childhood was particularly miserable, the family was difficult, his father worked as a carpenter, and at the same time sold black market rice with his mother and him, he had to be beaten by his mother every day, and his father only beat him once a month, yes, but every time he was the kind who used a belt to draw him to death, he had to work even if he had a fever, and he would be beaten for his slow movements. I was also bullied at school, and once when I was riding a bicycle to deliver rice to a customer, I was pushed directly into the river by my classmates. As a result, when he went home, his mother only cared about rice, and in the end he picked up as much rice as he could that was stained with mud. When he was young, he wanted to do bad things by the river with his male and female classmates, but the day before it was his turn to experience the "bad things", those classmates were arrested by the teacher, and some of them were ordered to drop out of the school. Later, for a while, he learned to sing again and wanted to be a singer. After that, I especially wanted to go to Hokkaido University, and I felt that my future life would be guaranteed if I was admitted, so I prepared for this university, and he was not good at mathematics, so he decided to discuss with a classmate who was good at mathematics, and he copied economics to that classmate, and that classmate copied mathematics to him, but when the exam took place, the classmate only cared about doing his own questions and did not copy the birds, and finally he went to university, with 5 points in mathematics, and 70 points in economics, and the admission line was 70 points in total. After that, life is ordinary campus life, always thinking about getting him a pass through the teacher, simply collecting debts for the bar, going to an advertising company, being a salesman, are not the kind that can show the open air, and the work in the advertising company is swept away because he always can't complete the performance. When I was unemployed, I went to find a job, and no one asked for an interview with six or seven companies. The relationship is not smooth, because I caught my girlfriend cheating, so I insisted on breaking up with my girlfriend, and as a result, I was framed by my girlfriend as a bad person before sending my girlfriend home and went to the detention center.

In short, after twenty or thirty years of ordinary miserable life, he opened his first furniture store at home, married a good wife, and finally ran a furniture store with his heart, cheated financing, went to the United States to study and learn more advanced business models, and slowly became a giant in the chain industry through various strategies. Mr. Nitori lived the first half of his life in this way: with stubbornness, perseverance and optimism, he went through a childhood that was not treated well, went through many situations that did not know the direction, and finally completed great things.

In the book, Mr. Nitori wrote a passage from his math teacher that also struck me, which was the math teacher's feeling that his brother had died in his teens: "People don't know when they will die, so if they want to do something, they must do it, so as not to be unfulfilled in their ambitions." So that on your deathbed, you can say to your loved ones, I have no regrets in this life, so please don't grieve! I hope you can all have such a life. "Chicken soup from different overly familiar recipes is still delicious, right?

2020.2.12