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▶︎ AMA Podcast (S-02, E-17) with Carlos Lastres, Tokyo-Based Apple Design Awards-Winning Designer and Engineer
We are often told that the path to success in Japan is straightforward: study hard, join a company, work long hours, and repeat. This system is built on precision and discipline, but it often comes at a heartbreaking cost: the fading of our creative spark. Our guest today spent years observing this struggle and realized that creativity isn’t a divine gift reserved for artists. Rather, it’s a survival skill we’ve forgotten.
Today on the Real Gaijin AMA podcast, we introduce a guest who refuses to color within the lines. He is a man who transformed his own grief and isolation into a blueprint…
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