Do You Talk Things Up?

Nicholas Kemp
4 min readNov 16, 2022

How living in Japan taught me to be humble

“Hustle!”

“Bring it on!”

“I crushed it!”

“Zone of genius.”

Are the above expressions something you pride yourself on saying?

I hope not!

In the West, we have a tendency to talk things up.

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Nicholas Kemp

Author, Japanologist and founder of Ikigai Tribe. 📕 Interested in ikigai? Read my book IKIGAI-KAN: Feel a Life Worth Living. https://ikigaikan.com