皆さまこんにちは、スタッフYでございます。

 

突然ですが何十年も生きてきて自分のことはよくわかっているはずなのに、この歳ににして自分の癖みたいなルーティンに最近気が付きまして。

 

気が付かなかったのですが、どうも朝に今日のテーマカラーを決めているようであります。朝の車通勤の中で決めていることが多いような気がしますが、今朝も信号待ちの際にバックミラーに目をやると、後ろの車の方がダッシュボードの上の埃を白い大きな毛ハタキで掃除する姿を目撃。

その白い毛ハタキの白が妙に目につき、さらに気が付くと周りの車が囲まれていたり…ということで「今日のテーマカラーは白」となりました。

 

 

 

 

何色に気をとられるはその日の気分なのですが、ぱっと目に入って気になった色がその日のテーマカラーのようであります。そして一日の終わりに「今日はあそことあそこで○○色に遭遇したな…。」などと、面白い○○色のものを発見しては振り返るだけの捕るに足らない何の生産性もないルーティンであります。

 

私のルーティンはさておき、調べてみますとかつての偉人たちにもそれぞれの癖やルーティンみたいなものがあるようでして、面白かったので少しご紹介いたしますね。

 

例えばレオナルド・ダ・ヴィンチ。彼は、彼のアイデアや観察をノートに記録する際、しばしばミラー（鏡）スクリプトという特殊な方法を用いました。これは左から右へではなく、右から左へと逆向きに書く技法で、一般的には鏡を使わないと読めないものです。この習慣は、彼の思考を秘密に保つのに役立っただけでなく、ダ・ヴィンチが常に異なる角度から物事を考えるよう努めていたことを示していたようで、彼のこの方法は、創造的な解決策を見つける際にも新たな視点をもたらします。

 

また、世界一位の大富豪と言われたマイクロソフトのビル・ゲイツ氏やアマゾンのジェフ・べゾス氏。実はこの二人が揃って行っているナイトルーティーンが、なんと「皿洗い」だそうです。

マイクロソフトのゲイツ氏は「毎晩、夕食後に皿を洗う。他の人が代わりにやると申し出ても譲らない。自分の皿洗いのやり方が大好きだ」と述べています。また、アマゾンのベゾス氏は｢私がすることの中で（お皿洗いは）最もセクシーなことだと、確信している｣と語っています。

 

彼らが皿洗いの効果を知ってか知らずかは知りませんが、皿洗いにはお皿が綺麗になるという達成感、お皿を洗うリズム感、水が流れる自然の音、水の冷たさなどなど、自律神経を整える効果があることが最近の研究で分かったそうです。

たぶん「これ、いいんじゃないかな。」という自覚や心地よさがあったからこそ続けているのでしょうね。

 

それに比べますと自分のルーティンは何の効果も意味のない、ただちょっとパズルのピースを何個か上手くはめれたくらいの程度の感覚なのですが、無意識にやってしまう理由は未だにわかりません。

 

そんなわけで、みなさまも今日からお皿が残っていたらチャンスと思って皿洗いをやってみてはいかがでしょうか？大富豪になれるやもしれませんよ。

 

それではごきげんよう。

 

 

Hello everyone, this is Staff Y.

 

Suddenly, I discovered a routine that seems to be a habit of mine at my age, even though I have lived for decades and should know myself well.

 

I had never noticed it before, but it seems that I have decided on a theme color for the day in the morning. This morning, as I was waiting at a traffic light, I looked in my rearview mirror and saw a car behind me cleaning the dust off the dashboard with a large white brush.

The white color of the brush caught my attention, and when I noticed that the cars around me were surrounded by it, I decided to call it “white today.

 

It is my mood of the day as to what color I am caught up in, but the color that catches my eye quickly seems to be the theme color of the day. And at the end of the day, I would say to myself, “Today I saw XX color there and XX color there…” and so on. I just look back at all the interesting XX-colored things I found today, and it’s a routine that is not productive and not worth catching.

 

I did some research and found that some of the greats of the past had their own habits and routines, which I found interesting and would like to share with you.

 

Take Leonardo da Vinci, for example. He often used a special method called mirror script to record his ideas and observations in his notebooks. This is a technique of writing backwards, from right to left, rather than left to right, and is generally unreadable without the use of a mirror. This practice not only helped keep his thoughts secret, but also seems to indicate that da Vinci was always striving to think from different angles, and this method of his also brings new perspectives when finding creative solutions.

 

Also, Bill Gates of Microsoft and Jeff Bezos of Amazon, who are considered the richest people in the world. In fact, the nightly routine that both of these men perform together is washing dishes.

Microsoft’s Gates said, “I wash dishes every night after dinner. Even if someone else offers to do it for him, he doesn’t give in. I love the way I do the dishes. Amazon’s Bezos also said, “I am convinced that of all the things I do, [washing dishes] is the sexiest thing I do.

 

Whether they know it or not, recent studies have shown that washing dishes has an effect on the autonomic nervous system, including the sense of accomplishment of getting the dishes clean, the rhythm of washing dishes, the natural sound of running water, and the coolness of the water.

I don’t know if they were doing the routine with the expectation of these effects, but I am sure that they continued to do it because they were aware that “this must be good.” I don’t know if they were doing the routine because they expected it to work, but I am sure that they continued to do it because they were aware that it was good for them.

 

Compared to that, my routine has no effect or meaning, just a little bit of a puzzle piece that I was able to fit together well, but I still don’t know why I do it unconsciously.

 

My strange routine aside, why don’t you take a chance and start washing dishes if there are any dishes left today? You may become a millionaire.

 

Have a good day.