"In order to grow, you must betray the expectations of others."

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This quotation examines the core nature of Change as articulated by Hayao Miyazaki. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Change provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. He co-founded Studio Ghibli and serves as its honorary chairman. Throughout his career, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most accomplished filmmakers in the history of animation.

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"Children have an instinctive understanding of what is real and what is fake."

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"Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe in."

— Hayao Miyazaki
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"It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me."

— Hayao Miyazaki
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"I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live."

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More about Change

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

— Stephen Hawking
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"The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being."

— Emma Goldman
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"They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change."

— Jean Charest
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"Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality."

— Helen Clark
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