2019.12.16

二軍、発想の転換を英語で！

さて、昨日の内容を英語にしてみましょう！

二軍はFarm　Team,発想の転換は、change of your mindset などとしてみました、どうでしょうか？

How to survive under the farm team

In 2002, Mr. Inamori* organized a symposium where three famous athletes share their opinions on how the sports have helped them to be a better person in terms of quality of lives and developing their personality. I would like to highlight the episode that Mr. Kinugasa demonstrated as this implies a lot of tips on how to bring your fortunes.

Q: Who is Kinugasa?

A: A legendary baseball player in Japan. With the nickname of “Iron player-die hard guy-”, he created a record of appearing the most consecutive games, entered into the hall of fame of baseball, and won the national honor award in Japan.

Q: What was Kinugasa’s episode?

A: After high school, Kinugasa was picked up by the professional baseball team, Hiroshima. He had played as the starting member however, his performance had not been good. Over a couple of years, Kinugasa was put into the farm team, the second-string team.

Q: What did he think? Was he very much disappointed, wasn’t he?

A: At first, he was. However, he just simply looked for the way how to motivate himself in keep training at the farm team. He tried to find the benefit in staying farm team.

Q: How did Kinugasa get him motivated? Did he come up with a good idea?

A: He thought as following: the first string is the team where players can’t enjoy the baseball. For instance, during the training, sometimes a good insight comes to an athlete. However, taking into account the next game and to maintain himself in the best condition, that player should not pursue the approach he wishes to try. All the things the players in the first string are expected to do is contributing to the team by bringing good scores. On the other hand, in the second string, players can enjoy the baseball as much as they can.

Q: What do you mean by that?  

A: In the farm team, players do not have to think about the game that they are officially committed to demonstrate their performance. All the time and resources are reserved for them to purely pursue opportunities for them to improve their skills and techniques. Mr. Kinugasa realized this and started enjoying every moment he spent in his baseball training.

Q: So, what happened to Kinugasa? Did he come up again to the first-string team?

A: Yes, he did. He changed his image towards the farm team from the secondary quality athletes’ pool to the place he can purely enjoy the baseball. By changing his mindset positively Kinugasa could dedicate himself in the training. This change worked and he was able to be back to the first-string team again.

Q: What was the message from this Kinugasa’s episode?

A: No matter how harsh condition you are in, always be positive and find out the way you can enjoy your circumstances. This is the key to fulfill you over long term.