Book 11. There is data that shows that 90% of people who start blogs quit within a year. It's a long-term trade.

 Hello. I'm Ten Watanabe.

The theme this time is about fishing. Speaking of fishing, blogging is also like fishing. Blogging takes a long time, and you build up your knowledge little by little, and after five or ten years you start to see results. You cast your line for five or ten years.

Five or ten years is a long time. Seriously. If you write even one article per week, you'll have 50 articles in a year. I'm not very good at fishing, so I try to get results quickly by putting all my effort into it from the beginning. That's what I'm bad at.

But gradually, you run out of gas, your strength is gone, and you collapse. You collapse, right? Attacking is a very physically demanding task. To attack, you have to devise strategies, make various plans, and then take action. It's a strategy. But if you're good at fishing, I recommend defense. Defense, defense.

When I was a student, I was an offensive type and often used characters with strong offensive power in games. I firmly believed that if I attacked, I would win, but looking back now, I think that relatively strong players were also good at defense.

I got the impression that they were stubbornly defending, aiming to make their opponents self-destruct, and gradually accumulating wins. In fact, defense requires a long-term battle, and I think that defense, or what I call baiting, is important to win in the long term.

Defense doesn't require stamina, and even in a war of attrition, if your opponent is an offensive player, you can just wait until they destroy themselves. However, if they realize you're only a defensive player, they may ease up and continue attacking endlessly.

I would like to raise the question here: is a counter a legitimate form of self-defense? A counter is essentially a parroting, a direct reversal of the opponent's technique. The opponent may suffer as much pain as they have received from the attack.

When I say counter, I don't mean punching back in response to your opponent's punch like in boxing, but rather if someone says something nasty to you, you just bounce it back like a boomerang. It's not good to hurt each other.

I won't go into further detail about whether a counter is legitimate self-defense, but I think most people would consider a counter a deterrent to an attack. However, defending or countering an opponent who is just attacking you can be effective.

Here, I would like to emphasize again the importance of bait. When it comes to blogging, being aggressive means posting an article of about 2,000 characters every day for 100 days. I think this 100 articles in 100 days is extremely meaningful for beginners starting their first blog. If you take an aggressive approach and write 100 articles, the quantity and quality of your blog will naturally improve.

However, if you only focus on attacking and then aim for 1,000 days and 1,000 articles, there is a high possibility that you will fail. In fact, once you have been attacking to a certain extent and have figured out how to achieve it, you should then strengthen your defense. It is a good idea to think about how you can write even better articles.

Once you can write 100 articles in 100 days, or 100 articles in three months, it's time for the long term. It's all about how long you can keep up with the game of blogging. I started blogging in 2017, and it's already been nine years, with about three years of active blogging. Continuing for a long time is hard work.

After three years of blogging, I would like to spend another ten years blogging, just like fishing. Although my blogging career took a break and I haven't been able to blog for the past eight months, I would like to start my second stint here.

I would like to decline the challenge of writing 1,000 articles in 1,000 days, or 1,000 articles in three years, as that is a rather high quota, but since I have only been inputting information up until now, I would like to try outputting it now.

I've always been a perfectionist, aiming for perfection in quality when writing my blog, but this time, even if the quality of my blog posts drops, I'd like to respond by outputting as much as possible. I think I'll be updating it once a week, but I'd like to be able to say that I've essentially conquered this game called blogging after 14 years.

There's a Chinese proverb that says that if you fish, you'll be happy for the rest of your life, and I'm confident in my ability to catch the fish known as blogging. Whether it's blogging, fishing, or YouTube, the long-term battle is key.

Until recently, there was data that showed that 90% of bloggers quit within a year. I think the key to continuing, whether it's a blog or anything else, is how long you can keep going, or how good you can become at it.

I would be happy if blogging could make me happy for the rest of my life. It's a long-term defensive battle. That's all. Thank you for your growth. This was Watanabe Ten. lol