Jiro master lessons Ono: as the work becomes a dream
Inspiration / / December 26, 2019
Author of an article inspired by the writing of her film "Jiro Dreams of Sushi"Which focuses on the 85-year-old chef Sushi master Jiro Ono, running in a tiny restaurant in Tokyo. Despite the size of the restaurant, as well as the fact that it is located in the basement of an office building, it enjoys a wild popularity. To get there, you need to try hard, because apart from the fact that the restaurant three Michelin stars (The first case in Japan), its chef and owner Jiro It was named the best Sushi master Japan alive.
The film makes a strong impression. The author has repeatedly revisited him alone, with family or friends. And I am trying to unravel the secrets of the success of Jiro. He was the best in the profession? What helped him? This will be discussed in the article.
You have to fall in love with their work
Jiro said: "As soon as you have decided to occupation, you need to immerse themselves in the work. You have to fall in love with her. Never complain about what you do and dedicate his life to the improvement of skills. This is the secret of success and the key to universal acceptance. "
Jiro himself extremely satisfied with his work, he blessed master, who is in love is what does every day. And it allows him to be full of energy in his already quite advanced age.
It should be noted that Jiro says "get a dream job", sending in a romantic quest search vooduschevlyayuschego classes. He says: I enjoy the work you have chosen.
This means consciously and voluntarily cultivate love, just as people do it in marriage. That is why love in marriage is different from a fleeting teen love that quickly captures, but usually ends as quickly and with a deep sense of frustration. According to Jiro, for finding true love to the need to live your whole life in devotion to her.
We often share the work into two types: some have for her real passion from the beginning, while others work only for the money. But for some reason, the last much longer, and they love to say that the work, which is a real delight - it pipe dream, and suffer years of mindless labor for them, waiting for the last to retire to start Enjoying life.
What happens if we try to awaken a sincere love for the work that is currently running just for the money? This greatly change our quality of life and reduce our fierce expectation of weekends and holidays.
Take individuality simplify some things and go deep into the profession
Sushi - by definition, simple food, and Jiro brought this minimalism to a new level, not only in the land of manufacturing technology, but also in its menu. Unlike other similar restaurants in Jiro does not serve meals, but every day they gather the menu from 20 kinds of sushi. The restaurant serves only sushi and nothing more.
Moreover, there is only 10 places. This allows the staff to focus on the sushi of the highest quality, and customer service there as well, as far as possible, noticing even such small details, such as: how much the client eats or which hand he was doing, left or Right.
Yoshikazu, Jiro's eldest son, who works as a chef in his own restaurant, but still helps his father, said that every day they repeat the same things. Actually, it is attained mastership by constant repetition.
The same rule should be Jiro and outside of work: every day he does the same thing. Even standing on the same spot waiting for a train in the subway. He does not like holidays and weekends, and always wants to go back to work as soon as possible.
This is called professional growth in depth: do not throw away, and every day to do the same job narrowly focused, fully focused on it. The combination of talent and hard work opens up a whole universe for creative research.
How to write a brilliant poet William Blake:
To see a world in a grain of sand
And the sky in the calyx,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour fit.
If you get such a pleasure to work - what a weekend?
Love to work requires sacrifice
Remember about "work of passion", which we mentioned earlier. Some tend to believe that if you are doing the work you love, then you are free from difficulties, and everything in your life simple and easy. This is not true. Favorite work will cost you dearly, especially at the initial stage, choosing this path, you have to be willing to pay a significant price for the ride.
Perhaps it sounds contradictory, but the fact that love their job at times very, very difficult, but if you persevere, you will be rewarded.
In the case of Jiro, his work moves away from his family, his children were growing up without him. He had to fight against poverty, and when he married, he had absolutely no savings. Years later, his children were forced to save money for months to afford Coca-Cola.
Today everything has changed, at Jiro great relationship with the children, who learned the craft from his father, but it took years of sacrifice and hard work to get to this node. Were the blows of fate, have been falling in the years of his training, but he went ahead. But he then had students who did not stand a day in the kitchen.
There is here a moment - bliss Jiro, which he finds in his daily work, can not be achieved by fast decisions and a four-hour work week. It can only make a heavy, intense, concentrated and even painful work. dream job, you can not find the magic it will be only after you marry her for life, for it will reward you with loyalty.
Jiro History teaches us that love and sacrifice will be rewarded with such surpassing all expectations of things that can not be achieved by using a "formula fast success." You can argue with that statement, but think about it just worth and worth seeing the movie "Jiro Dreams of Sushi"He is very inspiring.