I have lived in?? Actually, I’m not from Japan??

To tell you the truth, I’m not from Japan.  This is my big confession.  The story is the following.  Yesterday, my host father and I went to see a movie.  After the action movie, we talked about it this or that.  However, I couldn’t follow his story because I have seldom seen action movies and I had little knowledge about action movies. 

As my host father noticed my ignorance about action movies, he said to me “Where have you lived underneath a rock?”  At first, I didn’t understand what he said.  I’ve never heard that expression before.

Yes, perhaps I’m from a desert island or I have lived in a secluded heave.  (The attached picture is my true homeplace?)

Movie Yoga + Integral Methodological Pluralism (IMP)

I went to see the movie “Captain America” yesterday.  Watching this movie, I tried a crazy way to enjoy this movie.  The way was combination of Movie Yoga theory and Integral Methodological Pluralism.  I applied not only “The Death/Rebirth Matrix” theory in Movie Yoga but also “8 zones” theory in IMP.  I know I am a madman, but I’m not satisfied with normal moviegoing.

Reference

1 Movie Yoga: How Every Film Can Change Your Life

2 Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World

Integral Self-Assessment

I found an interesting self-assessment tool in the paper of “A guidebook to integral development for people and organizations.”  To sum up this assessment, this tool evaluates our mainly four “lines” development (physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual) in our professional work (not personal life).  I think this is useful to understand our strength/weakness in our professional life.

The following is my result.

Table 1

Score	Domains	Overall Strength	Change Strategy
10/16	Physical	Low	Strongly Develop
14/16	Emotional	High	Reinforce
14/16	Cognitive	High	Reinforce
16/16	Spiritual	High	Reinforce
16/16	Integral Intel	High	Reinforce

To tell you the truth, I was surprised by the result.  That is because I think that I’m good at any kinds of sports, so I have confidence in my physical ability.  However, as the above result shows, my physical intelligence score is low.  This is interesting because this assessment reveals the difference between physical intelligence (ability) in professional life and personal life.

Table 2

Score	Quadrants	Overall Strength	Change Strategy
17/20	Self-Awareness	Moderate	Develop
19/20	Self-Care	High	Reinforce
17/20	Social Awareness	Moderate	Develop
17/20	Social Care	Moderate	Develop

I could find my weakness point which I had to improve due to this assessment.  This paper illustrates not only this assessment but also some practices to develop each intelligence.