“But I think that actually going out, looking up at the sky and discovering your own shapes is the first step in creating lifelong impact.”
Kojima said it is hard to see stars in Tokyo now, but that when he was a child he could; he recalled that in old times people would look at the stars, see a bird or a crab or something and create stories. He said that looking up is doing creative things, and that young people do not know that. He added that searching for constellations on the internet and repeating them does not allow people to create constellations of their own, and that actually going out, looking up at the sky and discovering your own shapes is the first step in creating lifelong impact.
“it's hard to see stars in Tokyo now, but I used to be able to see them when I was a kid. […] people would look at the stars and they would see a bird or a crab or something and create stories. […] Young people may search the internet for constellations and say, oh, this one, that one, but doing that doesn't allow them to create constellations of their own.”