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There's a Japanese proverb that tells the story of a cricket that decides it will swim across a wide stream. The insect sets off with great gusto, but when it reaches the middle of the river it begins to doubt its ability to finish the task. Sieged by self-doubt, the cricket turns around and swims back the way that it came. It's a proverb that – with admirable humility and self-awareness – the game designer and head of Monolith Software Tetsuya Takahashi once said applies to his career.