“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it” Goethe.
Shortly after arriving in Japan, I became good friends with an American guy who’d also come to Japan to teach English. As the weeks passed, he found himself chronically underemployed and his efforts to do his job, [...]
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Being Bold: A Case Study
How I Found Freedom In Japan
One of the most liberated years of my life was a year spent teaching English in rural Japan. It wasn’t an easy year. I had both euphoric highs and some of my most desperate lows ever.
So why such liberation?
I believe it came down to finding myself outside the usual social pressures to conform.
Japan might [...]
