Kaizen Main Text Hi, this is AJ with your next lesson. The rest of the lessons are going to be a little bit different than what you've had up 'til now. In the rest of these lessons, I'm going to talk

<p><br></p> <p>Kaizen Main Text</p> <p>Hi, this is AJ with your next lesson. The rest of the lessons are going to be a little bit</p> <p>different than what you've had up 'til now. In the rest of these lessons, I'm going to talk</p> <p>about some book or article or idea, l'll probably read a little bit of it just so you can get</p> <p>the general idea of the topic, and then l'll talk about that topic. And, of course, we'll</p> <p>have our same mini-stories, we're going to have our vocabulary lessons, and we're</p> <p>going to add one more kind of lesson, the point of view lesson. The point of view lesson</p> <p>is really great for learning grammar in an intuitive way. Alright, so let's get started.</p> <p>This lesson is called "The Kaizen Way." So we're going to talk about a book. The book</p> <p>is called The Kaizen Way by Robert Maurer. Now, kaizen is a Japanese word although</p> <p>we use it in English now a little bit. Especially in Business you find it a lot, kaizen.</p> <p>Kaizen, as our Japanese students already know, means small improvements over time.</p> <p>It really means constant and neverending improvement. But it has this idea of making</p> <p>little tiny improvements again and again and again and again, for one week, for one</p> <p>month, for one year, forever. So kaizen is kind of the opposite of innovation.</p> <p>Innovation means a sudden, big change, a sudden, big improvement. And that's a great</p> <p>way to learn and improve. For example, you could study English very intensely for one</p> <p>month or two months and you would make a big, sudden improvement. That's the</p> <p>innovation idea, but there's another way you can improve and that is the kaizen way.</p> <p>And the kaizen way means maybe you just listen to English or read English or study</p> <p>English, maybe you just do it 20 minutes every day. And every day you improve just a</p> <p>little bit. But the key, the secret is you do it every single day. Every day you make one</p> <p>little improvement. Well after one week, one month, one