136 Life is a Schulte Table: A Thinking Approach of Overview and Reconstruction
The following is written in German. Hello everyone, this is MITSURU. Have you ever heard of something called the “Schulte Table”? It’s a brain training and speed-reading exercise where numbers are randomly arranged in a 5×5 grid, and you try to find them in order from 1 as quickly as possible. While casually playing this game (on easy mode) in an app, I suddenly realized something. “This isn’t just a game. This is life itself.” ■ To Move Forward, You Must First Break What’s “Complete” The goal of this game is to arrange the scattered panels numbered 1 to 25 in order. At first, everything goes smoothly. But as you get closer to the end, your fingers stop. Why does this happen? Because to move to the next step, you must break what you’ve already neatly completed. You don’t want to disrupt something you’ve carefully organized… But unless you let go of that attachment and move the panels around again, you cannot place the next number where it belongs. Isn’t life the same? Are you holding o...