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some people have frequently asked me this:
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it's been popularized what you've said in Colombia-
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that Japanese are not any smarter than Colombians
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but they are only more disciplined
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that Colombians are very talented
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but they lack discipline
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but, how do we manage to become well- disciplined?
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it can´t be done overnight
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because discipline is just the result of
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three factors: organization,
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cleanliness and punctuality
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organization because Japanese
are always baptizing places
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they never lose the keys because
they have a designated place for the keys
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always is baptizing, the Japanese have
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a designated place for shoes, as well for socks
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a place for the white shirts,
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the whole house is baptized and he gets angry when
items go missing from their corresponding place
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because they says "that´s the designated place"
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baptizing places and optimizing
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the times with the location
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of items
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the discipline is the result of
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that organization, that also
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must be added to cleanliness
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cleaning is eliminating things,
Japanese are always to eliminate things
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always, and everyday a lot of things
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because he doesn´t have a broad territory
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like we do, Japan is so small
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much smaller than Colombia
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about three times smaller than Colombia
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and almost one hundred million morehabitants
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one hundred thirty million habitants in Japan
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imagine a small island without gold, without petroleum
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without flowers, without coffee,
without anything but Japanese
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all the same, I get there and
I can't even tell myself apart
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No, I'm just kidding.
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but, it upsets me, it has always upset me to think
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how a country so small, without anything but people
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owns it all: Toyota, Suzuki
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Kawasaki, Yamaha, Nissan,
Mitsubishi, Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi
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Honda, Cassio, etc, etc..
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how can such country be so successful?
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the third most strong economy of the world?
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what do they have that we don´t?
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and it is the very crisis of living
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in such a small terrain so small, has made us value space
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and always eliminating
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having that culture of eliminating
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because space is "vital"..
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if you notice it well, everyday
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there are things to eliminate, if we don´t eliminate
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they are accumulating, if you open your closet
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and have clothes that you haven´t used for 6 months
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maybe you won't´t use them
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and we have to eliminate them, that is one of our themes
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in Ciudad Bolivar, throw away that jacket
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only have three postures, the posture of grandpa, father
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and mine.
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if you continue with that, you are
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going to create a parameter in your mind, that you need to be clinging to the things
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and if you don´t eliminate, there isn´t going to be space
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for new things to arrive
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we have to throw away, Japanese don´t understand
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when they visit Colombia, they say: What a big country!
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How big are the houses!, say the Japanese
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and it shocks him. In Japan having a car
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a really nice car
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nobody looks at it, you see go by
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all types of cars, and people don´t even notice
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but, when someone passes-by with a dog people say "he has money"
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having a dog in Japan is equivalent to being well-off
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because you need to have space, to have a dog
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and when he visits Colombia, my neighborhood, Ciudad Bolivar
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they say: they have a lot of money, don't they?
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full of dogs!
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one family, three dogs
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and "they're poor"?!.. that´s what they say
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sure, and when they enter in the house
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the are impressed, no?
we have a terrace
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second floor, one terrace
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and some windows for the dog to slide his head through and take a look outside
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so he doesn´t get bored
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things that Japanese note and we don't
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and also says "What is that room for?"
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"Oh, that's San Alejo's"
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and that room is the clear proof
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we don´t eliminate things
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is the room of the "just in case"
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half dry paint, "just in case, put it in San Alejo's room"
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what good will this half-dry paint serve?, "just in case"
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"just in case"
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to lift weights when you watch T.V
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half a tricycle, "just in case, put it in there"
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grandma is missing! no, she's there where else is she going to be?
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maybe we are organized,
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but we suffer with cleaning
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not in the sense that we are dirty, but
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in the sense that we don´t, we can also clean the things that we accumulate
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but, it isn´t correct
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we definitely have to eliminate
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I grew up watching women wash mountains of
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clothes in Ciudad Bolivar
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"she is going to wash all that?" - I said when I was a child.
"yes those are only the white clothes Kenji"
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"look at the colors pile"
another mountain
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heroic women who washed all of that
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on granite washing boards
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with that ground soap, or Azul Rey (brand)
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and they wash all that by hand
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today, we have technology, the washing machine
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my wife enters into a home
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and the first thing that she asks is:
"is there a washing machine?" she isn´t interested if here is a stereo
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a big T.V, she says "the most important invention
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of humanity is the washing machine"
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to know if a family is poor or not
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is to enter and see if they still enslave women as washing machines
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or there is already a blessed washing machine, because
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they need to acquire it, that reduces the work of all
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in the home, she see that, I start watching
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how is the mountain of clothes
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because sure, technology can arrive, but
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the mentality stills old
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clinging to the old, so even if there is a washing machine
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if the mountain is bigger
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it's because we aren´t eliminating
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a very simple example can be
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that we tell "mom,
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the jacket doesn't fit the girl anymore"
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"After only six years?"
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"put it on the boy"
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"but it's pink mom"
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"it doesn´t matter, is to be inside the house, noone is going to see him"
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"put it on the boy"
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"don´t throw it away because we are poor"
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"It doesn't fit him anymore"
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"It doesn't fit him after three years?"
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" bring it here"
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"you are finally going to throw it away?"
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"no, wash it very well, cut the sleeves"
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"make it into a vest and put it on the girl"
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"mom the vest doesn´t work anymore"
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bring it here again
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"give it to the dog"
"the puppy doesn´t want that"
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"bring it here again"
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"wash it very well"
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"why would I wash that?"
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"cut it again, and let's make it into a rag"
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"mom rags are 1300 there are of 1000"
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"bring it again"
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"we are finally going to throw it?"
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"no, wash it very well and dry it well"
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"put it in the pillow"
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"the pillow is hard and smells funny mom"
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"take it all out of there"
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"finally we are going to throw it away!"
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"no!, wash it very well
bring me the scissors, lets do wicks"
"for what?!"
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"lets buy a sack and make a colorful rug"
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"or lets make a colorful mop, but don´t throw it because we are poor"
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who sells us the idea, that we are so bad
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to cling so much to the old
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and not eliminate
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it is one of our projects,
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that families, understand that
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if we optimize resources
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and we acquire some good
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behavior patterns in the economy
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they can in colombia
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sure, with a lot of effort, can be possible buy own house
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we have achieved it with a lot of families
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that acquire the values and really get to their goals
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now, acquire a new car
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and they finish buying a used car, that is really used
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because there are good options today
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but, when I go to see the car is older
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and I feel disappointed after all this process, to get such an old model
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"but you don´t owe anything Kenji"
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"dirt-cheap!"
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"and my wife likes it"
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"do you like it?"
"yes"
"push hunny push"
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and that old car, finish pulling out more cash than a new one
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at the last, they finish fixing the motor
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and end selling for least than half the price
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they lost a lot of money because, the mentality
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doesn´t allow us to understand
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that eliminating is essential
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it is important, I return to the subject
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How do I get to be well- disciplined?
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definitely
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organization
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cleanliness, that is eliminating
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and punctuality
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punctuality is keeping your word
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the Japanese are so literal in that
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they don't understand our sentences
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I say it, I´m Colombian, but the Japanese don´t understand
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"In a second I'll be there"
the Japanese don´t understand that
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"how will he arrive in a second?!"
"where is he?!"
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"I´m already there"
"me too"
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over the phone you can´t say that
"I'm dropping by"
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"where is he going to drop from?"
the Japanese are so literal
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sounds funny but is literal
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one japanese friend got off the car
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here in Colombia, he threw the door so hard
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that I decided to say in japanese, what Colombians would say
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"throw it harder next time"
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"次、もうちょっと強く投げる！
("the next time throw it even harder")
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he looked my way and said: "yes sir!"
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"no, no, no that means not to"
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"I throw it or I don´t throw it?"
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"no, that means, don´t throw it"
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"so then why did you say that?"
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"just ignore me"
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he doesn´t understand sarcasm
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if you tell him that it is at 1 o'clock
is at one o´clock
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if you tell him that its at 2 o´clock
its at 2 o´clock
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he doesn´t understand phrases like:
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"I´m one step away"
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he'd be perplexed,
"how you can be one step away?"
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the problem in Colombia is that it isn´t just expressions
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really here
in colombia this has been postponed way too much
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we are really bad in this
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you say in a second I´m there
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when you can be 14 blocks away
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"yes, yes, yes, I´m there"
when you can be taking a shower
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you suffer a lot when you ask for a product
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"I need this product"
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perfect, I got it for you now
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"But I just asked for it"
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yes, relax, I have that now
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"now, when?"
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"come back here tomorrow"
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between now and tomorrow there is a very long lapse
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"explain me"
"now, what time tomorrow?"
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tomorrow early
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"what time tomorrow?"
"at 3 o´clock"
that is not early..
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and you'd better call
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because it can be 3 o´clock and I may not have it
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we are losing more and more the notion of time
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and when there is not punctuality
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we are going to suffer a lot
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to get discipline, discipline is the result of:
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organization
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the cleanliness and punctuality, that is:
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when organization makes love with the cleanliness
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in the womb punctuality, a baby develops
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called discipline
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when the organization makes love with cleanliness
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in the womb punctuality, the baby
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called discipline develops
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