What to do when Both Options are Equally Hard to Give Up | Yoshikazu Suzuki | TEDxHamamatsu

In life, a continuous series of choices, achieving a better life depends on how and what choices you make. Mr. Suzuki focused on the scope of a well-known proverb and, through his own experience, derived a method for making the best choices. He has simultaneously fulfilled two dreams: "coaching athletes" and "training coaches." The idea that brought about the realization of these two dreams will open up the possibility of a new third option for everyone who is torn between two choices. In this life that is a long series of choices, the choices we make determine how our life improves. Mr. Suzuki, focusing on a well-known idiom, has discovered a method to gain the best choice, based on his own experiences. Thanks to this method, he has achieved both his dreams at the same time: being a basketball coach and training next generation coaches. Perhaps, Mr. Suzuki’s idea, that brought about the realization of both his dreams, can grant the potential of having a third option to all people who struggle to choose one of two options. Born in 1979 in Ibaraki Prefecture, lives in Saitama Prefecture. Mr. Suzuki started “Basketball Tutor” as a business, specializing in coaching basketball to children all over Japan and training Junior-level basketball coaches. His coaching method is “To train coaches who move people’s hearts not by force but by gentleness, not by threat but by pride.” He started playing basketball when he transferred to a new primary school where he met a coach he respected who had changed his life. Mr. Suzuki started aiming to become a basketball coach in his junior high school days. He continued pursuing his basketball career passionately in junior high and high school and started “Basketball Tutor” in 2002 when he enrolled into Chiba University Graduate School. In 2007, he founded a company and has established a reputation for his curriculum of training coaches, while he enriches his coaching program through delivery coaching and camping program. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx