When I want to learn new things and attend lectures and training courses, I may feel that I am getting old for this matter, as if learning is for those who are less than 20 years old, i.e. the traditional school age. But I felt ashamed of myself when I found the story of the 81-year-old Japanese “Masako Wakamiya” who became an iOS app developer.
Although many of us know very well that a person becomes old when he sees himself like this. And he sees himself not able to learn when he gives up. But we do not believe and we are really convinced of this, but Japanese Masako, when she was retired from her job in Japan and became living with her 90-year-old mother, thought how to start the new phase of her life. She browsed through the newspapers and found an advertisement for computers. Here, she decided to buy a "computer" for herself and began experimenting with conversation applications while she was in her sixties. After she reached the seventies, her mother passed away, so she began to feel lonely and decided to look for something to occupy her time. From here, she began to learn Windows programs, especially Microsoft Excel, and then she designed a number of products and even designed her own clothes and was constantly learning.
Watch the old Japanese tell her story at a TEDx Japan conference:
As soon as Masako reached the age of eighty, she decided the same thing she did in the sixties and seventies that this is an age stage and her decision this time was to understand smartphones, specifically the iPhone (Japan has the highest percentage of iPhone users in the world). And she asked herself how applications are made ?! Well, I have to learn development. Indeed, she enrolled in a training course that lasted 6 months and she was learning like any traditional student and asking her teacher to develop herself. After the learning period, I participated in the Apple Developer Program and developed a game called Hinadan. This game has reached the store and Masako is 81 years old. And she is the one who developed it from scratch and designed it. The game, of course, is in Japanese, and it is one of the traditional games there, so it will be difficult for us, but we invite you to try downloading it, not to play it, but to see what a Japanese old woman was able to develop at the age of the eighties.
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What do you think Japanese Masako has done in learning and developing applications? Do you see that a person is the one who determines for himself only that his role in life has ended?
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