He created a space, a mentality, a freedom to have the mindset of thinking long term, to be on a journey – and he uses the word journey – to create a more sustainable living.
They are intelligent students, up to date, but with another mentality, another way of thinking.
"I would like to be able to open myself to one person who understands me, my mentality, my way of thinking and then they can give me advice, I mean, we need communication, without we can do nothing".
I had the diet mentality [of] thinking that to lose weight you have to deprive yourself or you have to work out massively so I had to get that out of my head, get out of that state of mind and trust the plan and that's what I've done to this day.
In the private sector, I run a consultancy office and try to promote a new business mentality based on modern ways of thinking.
[P1, female, 83 years] …it's a different mentality from ours… our way of thinking is methodical, rational and rigorous (Cartesian)… the young have a digital mind.
"However, the main reason was to bring a new era of thinking to the Okinawa mentality," Mr. Okamoto said.
"I think that's a hip-hop or house mentality more than a traditional, techno producers way of thinking.
But if by start-up mentality newspapers executives mean a different, more creative and agile way of thinking, they're barking up the wrong tree.
