前回、中野信子著『脳の使い方』（宝島社出版）について若干論評した。中野先生については、電影番組の「ホンマでっか」に出演していた時、彼女の発言を聞き、「こういったエンタメ番組に出る評論家らしく、喋り方が上手いな」程度にしか評価していなかった。しかし、2020年11月に流山大鷹之森にあった紀伊國屋書店で目にした『サイコパス』の本を買ってじっくり読み、「この人は本物の脳科学者だ」と思い、以来、彼女の発言や書き物に関心を寄せて来た
In the previous post, I made some commentary on the book "How to Use Your Brain" by Nobuko Nakano (published by Takarajimasya Publishing Co., Ltd.). I had heard about Dr. Nakano when she appeared on the television program "Honma Dekka" and only had an impression that she spoke well, as if she were an intelligent commentator who appeared on such a TV entertainment program. However, in November 2020, I bought a copy of "Psychopath" that I saw at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Nagareyama Otakanomori and read it carefully, and thought, "This person is a real brain scientist".
先の私のブログ投稿を読み、ひょっとしたら、日野クリスは、中野先生が嫌いなんじゃないか、と思った人もいたかもしれないが、そうではない。彼女を正しく評価しているだけに、商業主義に乗せられて、質の劣る本を書いたことに対する若干の失望感があったから、先の投稿をしたと言うべきだろう
Some people may have read my earlier blog post and could have thought that perhaps Chris Hino does not like Dr. Nakano, but that is not true. I should say that I made the earlier post only because I felt a liittle disappointed that she was taken in by commercialism and wrote a book of inferior quality.
そして、一昨日だったか、中野信子先生が持つYouTubeチャンネル『のぶこの部屋』の投稿で、自己肯定感について語っていたが、その時、自己肯定をしたことのない私は素直に疑問符が私の脳裏に点灯したのだった
The day before yesterday, I think it was, in a post on Nobuko Nakano's YouTube channel "Nobuko's Room", she talked about self-esteem, and at that time, having never had self-esteem, a question mark honestly lit up in my brain.
それは以下だ
It is as follows.
私は色覚異常者なので、強い劣等感を常に抱いていて、自己を肯定することはない。だから、中野先生が言うように自己肯定感を高めるという気はさらさらない。そもそも自己肯定感が何であるのかが良く分かっていない
Since I am colorblind, I always have a strong sense of inferiority and never evaluate myself highly. Therefore, I have no desire to increase my sense of self-esteem as Dr. Nakano suggests. I don't really know what self-esteem is in the first place.
この僅か2，3分の音声情報を何度聞いても、何が要点なのかが分からない私は、やはり才媛の彼女から見れば、鈍才の極みにいる馬鹿な男なのだろうな、と思ってしまう
No matter how many times I listen to this mere two or three minutes of audio information, I still can't understand what the point is. I guess I must be a stupid man in the extreme of dullness in the eyes of brilliant and ingelligent Dr. Nakano.
彼女は、容姿端麗、日本の最高学府で博士号を取るほどの知識人であり、自己肯定感は極めて高いであろう、と容易に想像することができる
She is good-looking, an intellectual with a doctorate from Japan's highest academic institution, so It is easy for me to imagine that her self-esteem must be extremely high.
多分、中野先生は、恵まれた状況にいることをあまり自覚していないんではないのだろうか、とついつい思ってしまう。私のように劣等感しか持っていない人間の心理を理解するのは困難なのかもしれない
Perhaps Dr. Nakano is not very aware of the privileged situation she is in, I keep wondering. Maybe it's hard for her to understand the psychology of someone like me who only has a sense of inferiority.
劣等感の塊の私が言いたいのは、「自己肯定感」ってなんで必要なの、そんなのなくても、他人様に迷惑を掛けず、法律に違反せず、家族を愛し、共に生きて行くということができるんだ、それで良いじゃないか、と彼女に言いたくなる。ま、おそらく分からないだろう
I, having strong inferiority complex, would like to tell her why we need to have "self-esteem," that I don't need it to be able to love my family and live with them without troubling other people or breaking the law, and that's fine, isn't that?. Well, perhaps she'll never know.