These values should describe who we are and what we always aspire to be in our everyday life in BSP. The Japanese equate excellence to the principle of “kaizen” which, in English, means “continuous improvement”. It is an evolutionary process – a daily conscious effort to do better than the day before.
In his book “The Story of Philosophy”, American philosopher Will Durant summed up Aristotle’s thoughts on excellence – “We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” Similarly, in his book “Outliers”, best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell advocated the 10,000-hour rule.