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So I was reading this article about Mark Cerny being interviewed about his intelligence and he revealed some rather interesting information about Hirokazu Yasuhara.
Considering how Hirokazu Yasuhara now works at Nintendo, I can't help but wonder what Miyamoto would think of that message if he finds out. >_> I also wonder why he viewed Miyamoto as a fart of all things.
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It was at this point in the conversation that Cerny recounted a story from earlier in his career, when he was working alongside Hirokazu Yasuhara on Sega Genesis’ Sonic the Hedgehog series. “I hit a rough patch at about ten years in the industry, and I noticed that Hirokazu Yasuhara… had a Japanese poem written, and he'd look at it above his desk, he wrote it out, he looked and got pissed off every morning.”
What did the poem say? “The poem was very simple,” Cerny said. “It was ‘Shigeru Miyamoto is a fart.’ And he'd look at that and he'd say ‘why is that guy getting all the credit? I have to show the world that I'm a good guy too.’”
To find similar motivation, Cerny decided to not take aim at someone else, but at himself. So he wrote a similar message that he kept handy. It was an old Japanese proverb that translates to, “when the prodigy child becomes 20, he becomes an ordinary person.” It was a way to remind himself that no matter how smart he is, he needed to work hard and stay grounded in order to succeed. In his own words, he'd “use that as my motivation to try harder.”
What did the poem say? “The poem was very simple,” Cerny said. “It was ‘Shigeru Miyamoto is a fart.’ And he'd look at that and he'd say ‘why is that guy getting all the credit? I have to show the world that I'm a good guy too.’”
To find similar motivation, Cerny decided to not take aim at someone else, but at himself. So he wrote a similar message that he kept handy. It was an old Japanese proverb that translates to, “when the prodigy child becomes 20, he becomes an ordinary person.” It was a way to remind himself that no matter how smart he is, he needed to work hard and stay grounded in order to succeed. In his own words, he'd “use that as my motivation to try harder.”
Considering how Hirokazu Yasuhara now works at Nintendo, I can't help but wonder what Miyamoto would think of that message if he finds out. >_> I also wonder why he viewed Miyamoto as a fart of all things.
