I worked late today. This morning, I joined the daily English Zoom meeting (today's theme was the pros and cons of "remote working"). After that, I went to the main house of my group home. There, I read a Japanese essay by Yoko Kato, which taught us how to simulate other people's perspectives without getting too selfish.
After that, I gazed at Twitter's timeline and found an interesting post by a famous Japanese blogger, Kogai Dan. Dan said that the "Japanese-only" Twitter space can be a very narrow, closed one which might prevent us seeing the real world's figure (he used the word "echo chamber" to describe this situation). Yes, I agree with him. I won't say everyone should be multilingual, but a monolingual state can have its possible dangers.
For me, Kato and Dan were trying to tell me how I would be able to wear someone else's shoes to imagine a possible alternative situation, even though those opinions hadn't been related to others directly. As I've written this often, I'm so-called autistic, therefore, that character can disturb my trial of imaging other people's situations.
So, one of the solutions I've been trying to do to solve this issue of not becoming too selfish (or too "paranoiac", even though this sort of specific mental terms shouldn't be used too easily) is just to learn English like this to communicate with others. Of course, even if I were a Japanese-only monolingual person, I could get out of this stubborn autistic brain's narrow space to the wider world. However, I can enjoy using English to exchange several opinions with others casually, and also reconsider what I am thinking in an alternative way.
After that, I went to AEON to have lunch. Just before that, I had time, so I went to the bookstore to see if any interesting books were available. Then, I found the Yuval Noah Harari's "Nexus", so I decided to buy it (it's embarrassing to say that TBH I haven't read "Sapiens" and "Homo Deus" yet). By the time I started today's work, I had sushi and enjoyed reading that Harari's work (until the first chapter's end).
After that, I worked from 1 to 9 (with an hour break in between).
