2021年3月21日日曜日

It has been close to 14 years since I started my MBA!

 Time flies!

Looking back, it has been amazing how time has flown since my MBA program.

What did I learn since then. 

One thing for sure is my career has been lots different from the image I had right after graduating from my MBA program.


But one important lesson I have learned from MBA has not been changed at all

Learning new things on a daily basis.


Given, I will start simplify one thing I learn on a daily basis, starting from today.


So today, what I have learned is the complication of making decision on long-term investment.  I have just finished reading a novel, called " Teinen Gozila", where retired guys, who bought houses close to 40 years ago, started feel it odd to live there after retirement because of the boredom and quietness of the living neighborhood, which used to be very attractive when they had lived together with their kids, far away from the center of Tokyo, 2 hours by train with a lot of natural beauty and quietness.

Everything must have been looking good at that time when they had bought houses, but now given the location, situation, lifestyle etc, things always become stale, and continue to be updated. Thus, do we really need to buy somethings as if you would use them for more than 10 years? How can we predict what it would be in 10 years all the time? 

The lesson from that reading is, expense L-T things as L-T thing will always become stale and useless in the long term.