Jiro Ono a species that can only exist in Japan? What about hedonic Europe? What about America, a monopoly? What about money-oriented China?
He only does one thing in his life, he does it quietly, calmly, and introverted; he doesn't have great success, he doesn't expand the market, and he doesn't reform and eliminate the old. He became a god because he turned every little thing he did into a big thing, and achieved the ultimate, and he did it every day, and he did it for more than 70 years without slack. Erlang is industrious, obviously, not only with his hands and feet, but also with his mind—the cornerstone of his success. On this basis, his gastronomic talent, his perfectionist personality, his unconventional love of sushi, and his strict reverence for order and discipline have all contributed to his mythology.
But Erlang is not a 2D person, he is a complicated character. From his childhood memories and his grumbles in front of his parents' tombstones, it can be seen that he is dissatisfied, even resentful, to the family he came from. He was born in a humble and poor social status, and did not get enough father and mother love, so he was forced to find a living independently early on. At the class reunion, we learned that he was a rebellious troublemaker when he was a child. Even when he was old, he would give a speech to the students to warn young people that reading is not as important as you think. He advised everyone with personal experience, except for You can't trust anyone in this world. During the turbulent World War II, he was also an executioner wearing an ugly emperor's military uniform (in this movie, I only saw a black and white photo of him in the shape of a Japanese devil, without any description, maybe he was not transported to the puppet Manchukuo ?). The father, who always seems to be peaceful and silent, is actually a hegemonic man for his son. It can be seen from the awe of his elder sons that they are all afraid of their strict father, and they have no choice but to live under the shadow of his overpowering. In Japanese culture, where tradition still reigns supreme, inheriting the father's business from one's son may not only be a form of filial piety, but also an irrefutable rule. So even if the eldest son has the passion and dream of being an airplane pilot and an F1 racer, he can only drive a blue Audi every day to make sushi in his father's shop. This father is very domineering and dictatorial, killing the children's right to choose the future, but also preserving the inheritance of his unique craftsmanship. The words he said were ruthless and clear enough: today's parents always tell their children, go to the world, it doesn't matter if you fail, we are here, so they have created so many losers; I said to my younger son, Go to open a store, you can only succeed, not failure, because you can't come back when you walk out of this house.
The god of sushi makes sushi, and every step is meticulous and meticulous. Buy the best ingredients of the day from the best connoisseurs in the market, choose the best quality rice from rice and rice experts, recruit the most dedicated and studious apprentices from the sushi industry, and spend hours carefully preparing All materials: cutting, cooking rice, roasting seaweed, marinating, massaging the cuttlefish, fanning the rice... All the tedious work, just for the end, ordered months in advance (it is said to have been extended to a year now) ) in front of ten diners, prepare the 2-3 cm long pieces of sushi. Every chef in front of the table has to remember all kinds of details. If he is left-handed, he will put the sushi on the left hand of the diners. Diners say that eating sushi pears in front of Erlang is very big, is this strange? Usually the big pear should be the chef standing in front of the diners! But when I saw Erlang standing there unsmilingly, writing from head to toe the same rigorous to strict scientific attitude as he treats rocket launches, I didn't really want to experience this kind of pear...
Japan's The rise and continuous development stem from countless myths about Jiro Ono in different industries. The progress of every society needs such a paranoid madman + genius like a screw. Obviously, in the materialistic contemporary Shanghai where I live, it is difficult to find a screw who will stay for the rest of his life for the sake of love. Everyone is so busy that they forget what they are busy with. Sometimes it is not even for making money, because making money has already been done. It has become a way of life without thinking. Few people can achieve attachment, because attachment means a single absolute goal. Jiro Ono spent his life trying to do one simple but difficult thing: make the best sushi. Perseverance means enjoying loneliness, being content with loneliness, and sacrificing all the joys of life just because in this obsession you can achieve unparalleled happiness and meaning. It's not difficult to find a temporary interest, but it's difficult to find a lifetime. You can say that Jiro Ono is a boring and uninteresting person, because he doesn't seem to have a second hobby or passion besides sushi. He won't go on long trips, and he won't take his wife to watch a night movie. The role he has played in his life is that of a professional who can be recognized by the world's top food industry even if he has worked in the subway all his life. We, who are greedy for pleasure, are destined to have nothing else to do. To be honest, I admire him, but I don't want to be him.
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