HiradaBrought to you by Game Ready Mindset™Make my chartThe Harada Method
At 16, Shohei Ohtani wrote his future on one sheet of paper.
The Harada Method is a goal-setting system made by Japanese coach Takashi Harada. You break one huge goal into 8 areas, then each area into 8 daily actions — 64 habits that all point the same way.
Ohtani's chart
Tap an area to see some of the actions he wrote for it.
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Luck
- Greet people
- Pick up trash
- Clean your room
- Respect umpires
- Take care of equipment
- Read books
- Be positive
This is the famous one: Ohtani believed small good habits, like picking up trash others leave behind, create your own luck. He's been seen doing it on the field in the majors.
Translations are summarized from widely published versions of the chart. Each area originally had 8 items.
How Ohtani did it
Ohtani's full chart — try scoring it
All 64 behaviors from his high-school chart. Rate yourself 1–5 on each one as if it were yours: each area's score is the average of its 8 behaviors. As Sahil Bloom puts it, the chart turns "hoping" into "engineering" — scoring shows where the engineering is weakest.
Tap a square to rate its 8 behaviors. Darker blue = higher score.
Body
Value score –/51 = rarely do this · 5 = do it consistently. The value score is the average of these 8 behaviors.
- Body care
- Take supplements
- Front squat 90kg
- Flexibility
- Back squat 130kg
- Stamina
- Range of motion
- Meals: 7 bowls PM, 3 bowls AM
This demo isn't saved. Score your own chart each week.
Make your own in four steps
Pick one big goal
Write it in the very center. Make it specific enough that you'll know when you've hit it.
Pick your values
What has to be true for the goal to happen? Ohtani used 8 areas; in Hirada you pick 5 values to keep it manageable.
Give each value 8 behaviors
Small, concrete things you can actually do. With 5 values, that's 40 behaviors in total.
Turn actions into routines
Harada's method also uses a daily journal and habit checklist. The chart only works if you act on it every day.
Did it work?
He wasn't drafted by eight teams — only the Nippon-Ham Fighters took him in the first round in 2012. But he became the first true two-way star since Babe Ruth, and he's won multiple MVP awards in MLB. The chart didn't predict the result. It shaped the habits that got him there.
Build your own chartHirada · An introduction to the Harada Method. Not affiliated with Shohei Ohtani or Takashi Harada.