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Did Reflected Designed Created
This is a tool I have been using recently in my work: DRDC Here are the 4 elements of the tool 🔷 I did something... I did a lot. Some of it might be useful for me to note down. Depends on what I want to get better at... 💡 I reflected
The ALIVE acronym
A short video that articulates the educational philosophy of focusing on LIFE. 0:00 /5:21 1× Roughly edited but I stand by the content!
EXCELLENCE
Excellence is not about being better than other people. It means being fully yourself, at your best. Excellence is individual, and it is never finished. Excellence begins when you can distinguish what you genuinely want to do from what you feel you are supposed to want. It cannot be about
2026-01-07 Update
It is a real pleasure to be working on this site and the accompanying book. A lot is being developed behind the scenes. I see clearly now that this site is going to take time – perhaps most of 2026 – before it really starts to make sense to others. For Japanese
2025-12-15 Update
Thank you for visiting Intelligent Worksheets. The idea is that most of the writing here is going to be available at different levels of English ability. The priority right now is to upload the content itself in a "native speaker" version and then quickly add the extra versions
Report Card from Breath
… we were going to demonstrate, through our performance at the school, the extent to which our lives could in the future be deemed valuable and worthy of respect.
Pretending to pretend
School is one expression of the conditioning power of what we call “media,” and one of the effects of this medium is that we learn to become good at pretending.
Someone Else's Anger
As a child, there were many times when I felt hurt, disturbed and confused by the anger of an adult. This is one of the stories that I remember.
INTELLIGENCE
2026-02-12 Quotes will be added here on a regular basis and organized into themes related to INTELLIGENCE. The rational mind is a precious servant and the intuitive mind is a precious gift. We live in a world which acknowledges the servant, but has forgotten the gift. — Albert Einstein We'
Happiness is Infectious
At the end of March 2025 I was returning to Japan from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. I had been attending a week-long team development workshop that had left me feeling very happy. After checking in and passing through immigration, I went into the men's room. As I was
The Birth of Kaito Yoshi
This is one of the directions of future English textbooks in Japan.