So what if I'm a cleaner?

Marie Kondo is a Japanese woman born in 1985. Since she was a child, she loved to organize things. When she was in elementary school, every time she went to class, she would run to the bookshelf and enthusiastically rearrange everything to make it neat and beautiful. While her friends were running for "big positions" in the class, she only hoped to "win" the position of bookshelf manager so she could arrange the bookshelves every day. What she loved to do most was cleaning and arranging things! She did it with all her passion and creativity.

At the age of 19, while studying sociology at Tokyo Woman's Christian University, she opened a cleaning and organizing consulting company. She came up with a method of organizing things called the KonMari method. In 2011, she published the book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (or The Japanese Art of Tidying Up). The book shares creative and interesting cleaning and organizing methods, from determining why our living spaces become cluttered, considering what should be thrown away, to keeping things to make our lives brighter, to arranging things around us to change our lives in a pleasant direction. Marie Kondo believes that the goal of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel the happiness that exists in the living environment.

After being published, her book immediately attracted the attention of readers around the world and became the number 1 bestseller of the New York Times. To date, this book has sold more than 2 million copies, translated into 39 languages. Her simple yet effective cleaning and organizing methods have helped many people around the world turn their homes into comfortable and inspiring living spaces. With her unique way of living and working and her unique creativity that has a positive influence on the majority, Marie Kondo was voted by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2015.

Referring to Kondo's case, university lecturer Nguyen Quoc Vuong, who studied abroad in Japan and is the translator of several widely read books on Japanese educational methods, wrote: "Many parents want their children to be good at math, physics and chemistry. Some parents worry that their children are too fond of reading books, too playful... Others are afraid that their children only like to disassemble and draw and are not really good at math. But in fact, they are only afraid of not being passionate enough, because anything good can now become a profession and earn money. Don't be afraid that your child won't get the highest score, be afraid that your child won't do something with the highest passion and concentration."

Yes, one of the greatest happiness of a person is to live with passion, to do the work that you really want to devote all your heart to. Only when you do the work that you are truly passionate about can you fully develop your hidden potential, and thus, can you dedicate yourself to the development of yourself and society. Marie Kondo's story of starting a business and living with passion certainly evokes much thought for parents as well as educators. While many Vietnamese parents deeply intervene and somewhat impose in their children's career orientation, causing their children's passion not only to not be awakened and discovered but also to be rarely encouraged, even extinguished, education in our schools still focuses on cramming knowledge, tends to pursue uniformity and uniformity in results rather than teaching children to appreciate uniqueness and respect differences in themselves and those around them.