I was at a sporting goods store the other day and I came across a rack full of motivational socks. I’d never seen anything like these before, but thought they were pretty cool, so I bought a couple pairs. The black ones say “cho genki”, which means “super genki” (super energetic and bubbly). I’m totally not a cho genki kind of person, so I bought them for the irony, obviously. The white ones say “shin wa chikara nari”, which loosely translates to “trust is power” (like knowledge is power, I guess).

There were a bunch of other ones too, but they were mostly sports-related. I couldn’t translate all of them on my own, so I’ll have to go back with my husband one of these days to see if there are any other good ones available.

2 Responses to “Motivational Socks”

1. lattegirl Says:
   April 29th, 2007 at 11:36 am

   Trust the Japanese to come up with that.

2. J.E. Says:
   April 29th, 2007 at 5:24 pm

   I think these socks were mostly geared towards high school kids and their sports teams. Some of the other ones said things like, “Win the game,” “Winner,” “Baseball Team,” etc.

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