Description: The everyday art of living flexibly by letting go of overthinking! How did all those idle thoughts turn into imagination? This is 'Thoughts I Didn't Even Know I Was Thinking,' a sketch essay by Yoshitake Shinsuke, the 'imagination genius' known for his refreshingly original ideas. Full of worries, fears, and things he can't do, but even more full of imagination, this is a collection of 'small yet great' thoughts that make up the author's own daily rhythm. Yoshitake Shinsuke, who says, "Once you start recording things in any form, you begin to see how many interesting things there are in the world," captures countless worries, timid concerns, and stray thoughts with sparkling wit and imagination. So we can open the book to any page and feel it: that 'Shinsuke Time' has quietly drawn near, calmly murmuring whatever thought happens to cross his mind. Looking into the author's small, ordinary daily life, readers come to fully realize that no one living here and now is all that different, nor all that special. Reading through the author's countless idle thoughts—from the moment he wakes up in the morning to right before he falls asleep—it's impossible not to relate to at least one part of it. While reading, readers may come to feel that all those seemingly useless musings they've had over the years were 'never truly useless' after all. The notebook of thoughts that everyone has wondered about but no one has ever seen—Yoshitake Shinsuke's private notes are finally revealed! Someone who carefully records the little things that would normally be forgotten in an instant, and remembers them for a long time. Someone who draws to encourage himself and live joyfully. Someone who occasionally gossips about others and grumbles at the world, yet somehow manages to live happily. Someone who gets discouraged over small things, but is also comforted by small things. Someone who seems terribly diligent but is, in fact... a bit of a lazybones who'd rather not try too hard. Yoshitake Shinsuke, known as an 'imagination genius,' has released his everyday sketch essay collection 'Thoughts I Didn't Even Know I Was Thinking.' This book is a collection of the countless stray thoughts that crossed the author's mind in daily life—carefully gathered rather than let slip away—as well as a history of his everyday life, and the 'secret notebook of a genius author' that everyone has wondered about at least once. The author wonders just how many things in this world are, like clipping the nails on the hand he uses most, actually harder simply because they're so familiar. He firmly believes that tomorrow's self will surely make up for today's shortcomings, all so that today's self can rest easy—then thinks that seven o'clock feels like a sock, and finds himself rather cute for imagining such things. On days filled with countless worries, he wishes someone would invent paper that could absorb worries, and when he feels he can't do this or that, he decides it simply means he now has room to do something else instead. Looking into the author's small, ordinary daily life this way, readers come to fully realize that no one living here and now is all that different, nor all that special. Reading through the author's countless idle thoughts—from the moment he wakes up in the morning to right before he falls asleep—it's impossible not to relate to at least one part of it. While reading, readers may come to feel that all those seemingly useless musings they've had over the years were 'never truly useless' after all. Perhaps, they'll think with a quiet smile, my own imagination and everyday life aren't so different after all. "On days when my head feels noisy, I wish someone would make paper that absorbs worries." The everyday art of living flexibly by letting go of overthinking! 'Thoughts I Didn't Even Know I Was Thinking' is filled, page after page, with quirky, clever, and philosophical thoughts and questions. The familiar scenes of everyday life flow with such delightful humor that it almost feels as if Yoshitake Shinsuke has peeked directly into your own mind. Completing his own signature style by adding witty text to simple, clean illustrations is truly the author's specialty. You may read seriously and still find yourself chuckling, or pause mid-sentence to reflect even on a story that isn't heavy at all—perhaps because the author's honest attitude and sincere heart come through so completely to the reader.