Book 15. Would it be profitable to produce fruit sugar by powdering dried fruit?

Hello. I'm Ten Watanabe. You're welcome.

The theme this time is vending machines and fruit sugar. I'd like to introduce my fierce battle with vending machines. Vending machines. Hmm. Vending machines. I end up buying a lot of them. 100 yen carbonated drinks are a lot, but I end up buying 10 bottles. In just one day. I'm definitely not fat.

I'm a little worried about my weight these days. However, I'm worried that if I continue this lifestyle, I'll end up getting fat. It's okay. While I'm young, at least. I have the money to buy things, but vending machines are very tempting. Seriously.

I can see that they have a wide selection of juices and coffees. But when there's a vending machine, I can't help but reach for it. I want to drink something.

I've recently realized that if you go to the supermarket, you can get juice for about half the price. Vending machines are convenient, so you end up buying juice all the time, but at the supermarket, it's inconvenient to go there multiple times a day, so you can buy a lot in one go. It's a sense of guilt.

Speaking of juice, I also like fruit juice, but I am mindful of the sugar content. I try to drink as much water as possible. Speaking of fruit, I think fruit sugar is excellent. If you go to a shopping store, like a supermarket, you'll find dried fruit.

I want to reduce my sugar intake, so I thought I could make money by powdering dried fruit to make fruit sugar. It's called fructose, a natural sugar found in fruits and honey. I dried it and powdered it.

But I think that fruit sugar doesn't depend on insulin, so even diabetics should be able to eat it. I think it would be good if fruit sugar became more widespread. I think it would be good to grow and produce fruits cheaply in warm tropical countries like Africa and ASEAN. But that's just my opinion.

Fruit is grown in many countries, so I think it would be good to use fruit sugar in the juices sold in vending machines. By the way, regular white sugar is glucose (white sugar), which requires insulin. It is the nemesis of diabetes patients. Glucose, the nemesis.

Speaking of vending machines, they're just lumps of glucose. They're just lumps. The more you buy, the more sugar you ingest. I think vending machine juices need to be made with both fructose and glucose.

Fruit is very expensive here in Japan where I live. Of course, the quality is good, but if you want to buy fruit, it will easily cost you 1,000 to 2,000 yen. However, if you produce it in a tropical country where prices are low, it will be cheaper.

I also look at mangoes on online shops, and I see that brand-name products cost around 4,000 yen. That's expensive. Tropical mangoes can be bought for 200 to 300 yen. I think that even if you use tropical mangoes as an ingredient, you can still produce fruit sugar cheaply.

It's clear that fruit sugar can also be purchased cheaply if it's mass-produced in tropical countries and imported at low cost. I'd love to see this introduced to juice in vending machines as well. However, I think the battle with vending machines is still on, so please keep an eye on us. Thank you.

That's all. Thank you for your growth. This was Watanabe Ten.

Book 14: I want ours to work for 10 years without thinking about profit for someone else, like the other elected leaders.

  Hello. I'm Ten Watanabe.

Let's say you live a long life. Today's theme is about Watanabe Ten's signature cheat. For example, over a period of several years, let's say three years. I think what you have achieved is the foundation. And precisely because it is the foundation, those three years must have been important. Again, this is just an example.

So, let's say you take what you've achieved in those three years and apply it over the next 10 years. You worked hard for the first three years and lived through those three years. You can build on that foundation for the next 10 years of application.

In my case, there have been so many things that have happened over the past three years that I can't summarise them in one theme, but it all boils down to one thing: leadership. There are many different organisations and groups.

Up until this point, I had belonged to several organizations, and each one had a leader. Organizations are interesting because leaders change all the time. This is especially true for organizations, but there are also many different types of leaders.

I have observed leaders up close in various organizations, and I have noticed that the people who end up in leadership positions are those who are well-liked to a certain extent. I am the type who sends gifts to close friends and is able to brush things off, but most leaders are chosen by others.

Maybe this is especially true these days, but I don't think being a leader is something you make yourself. Ambition is important. Ambition makes you stronger and makes you better. You need ambition, and it's important to run for office.

However, many people who run for office on their own accord do so for their own advancement. In other words, they work for themselves. However, when elected by others, the person who is promoted by others becomes the leader with their own consent. Therefore, there is no ambition for oneself.

If you lack ambition and motivation, you might say there are people who will work with a volunteer spirit. I know that it is good for people who run for office, whether they are politicians or executives of an organization, to have at least some experience as volunteers.

I don't know if they were so altruistic from the beginning, but when they donate or volunteer, they do so with an altruistic spirit for the sake of others - and I don't mean just others, of course.

It is inevitable that if we elect people who do not call themselves leaders but who have been recommended as leaders by others, they will work for the benefit of society rather than for their own self-preservation.

Going back to the first three years, if you become a leader in those three years, I think those three years are a blessing. I hope that you will continue to fulfill your duties as a leader for the next 10 years.

I don't know if you were elected or not, but I want you to serve the people not as a self-elected leader, but as an elected leader. I think that is your mission.

I'm not saying that a self-elected leader running for office is bad, but I would like him to work for 10 years without thinking about the interests of others, like other elected leaders. Those 10 years will definitely not be wasted.

If you can run for office as a self-elected candidate, or even if you are elected by others, and serve as a leader for three years, then I want you to spend 95% of your time working for other people. Of course, 5% is fine for you, but I want you to spend 95% of your time working for the people who helped you rise up. Lol

That's all. Thank you for your growth. This was Watanabe Ten.

Book 13. At the end of your meal, if you leave one bite, clasp your hands, and realize that you're full, your appetite will disappear.

 Hello. I'm Ten Watanabe.

This time, I would like to talk about the feeling of fullness in a bite. Leaving one bite. It's very important. By leaving one bite, you feel full and don't want to eat any more. It's amazing.

If you eat until you're full, you'll soon feel hungry again. I rarely feel hungry. I'm so grateful that I'm able to live comfortably in the world and environment I live in now. Seriously. But sometimes I feel like binge eating. There are times when I feel like biting into a sea bream. Lol

When I go out to eat, or in other unusual situations, I tend to overeat. Appetite can be scary. In my case, I've managed to get my appetite back to normal, but for some people, their standard of living may rise along with their appetite. It's a pretty tough situation.

At times like that, if you leave the last bite of your meal, clasp your hands, and say "Thank you for that bite" to acknowledge that you are full, your appetite will disappear and your hunger will also go away. It doesn't matter how you say it. I say "Thank you for that bite," but you can also say "I feel full," and with just that one word, your hunger will disappear and you will feel full. I don't think you will feel hungry again even after a while. Give it a try.

It really does make you lose your appetite. I'm currently working on some top-secret research, and I'd like to look into Hitokuchi-sama and think about the human thought process that causes it. Hitokuchi-sama means "thank you for the meal," but the key point is that instead of thanking after eating everything, as in "gochisousama," you leave one bite and become full.

If you eat the remaining bite after saying "thank you for the meal," you will be able to go through the next meal without feeling hungry. You will be very satisfied. "Thank you for the meal" is a great saying. Your life is built on the foundation of many other lives. For that, I am very grateful.

I think "Gochisousama" means "I've been given life," while "Hitotsukusama" means "I'm so full I can't eat anymore." It's interesting, isn't it? I'm sure many people will think that just one word can make you feel full. Easy, you might think. If you have a big appetite and want to suppress your hunger, try chanting "Hitotsukusama." You'll surely find that your appetite disappears, like magic.

That's all. Thank you for your growth. This was Watanabe Ten.

Book 12. It might be a good idea to post a PayPay QR code on your blog for tips.

  Hello. I'm Ten Watanabe.

This time I'll be talking about my original blog creation technique, dictation, and PayPay, the source of revenue for that blog.

I write my blog using dictation, a method that some people may not be familiar with. This method involves weaving sentences together while speaking quietly, but sometimes it works well and sometimes it doesn't. It's quite difficult. Since it's a one-shot writing method, I type while speaking out loud in one go. This is the crucial part.

Even though it is dictation, the advantage is that you can write sentences that sound like spoken language, and I personally feel that it is easier to understand intuitively and creates a sense of familiarity compared to writing a blog in formal language. It's the contact effect.

The great thing about dictation is that it allows you to write sentences smoothly, and even though I've only been away from dictation for about nine months, I feel like I can easily write a sentence of about 1,500 characters. I also write in one go when taking dictation, but the bad thing about writing in one go is that if I go off topic, the topic of conversation changes.

However, I would like to digress a little and talk about how to deposit money into PayPay. As a blogger myself, I would like to earn money from my blog, and as part of that, I have considered transferring money into a bank account.

It takes a lot of courage to post your bank account number on a blog, and you might be worried about being tricked and scammed. In that regard, I think it might be a good idea to post a PayPay QR code instead of your bank account number. Hmm. I'm starting to get a little angry.

I've strayed quite a bit from the topic of dictation, but I see dictation as an art form that uses sensitivity. Well, I'm currently thinking that if I could link my strayed topic of PayPay payments with dictation, I could write a pretty interesting article.

I want my readers to know that I have a certain ambition to turn this blog into a cash cow. I'd also like to look into ways to donate or tip using PayPay and consider including that on my blog. PayPay. Sounds exciting.

I think my blog should be a miscellaneous blog that uses a lot of know-how. Sometimes it goes off the rails, and sometimes the wheels get back on track. That's a bit occult, if you take it literally. The wheels get back on the rails they derailed from.

I've said everything I wanted to say at this point, but I think it's revolutionary to have people donate and tip using PayPay. However, I'm not particularly greedy for money, so being realistic and common sense, I'd be happy if I could earn around 50 million yen. That's a really realistic number.

I'm also the type of person who doesn't like to keep money overnight, so I'd be happy if I could earn about 50 million yen in PayPay points. This is my 12th article on this blog, and I'd like to post two or three articles a week.

I have a lot to do, so I may stop updating my blog from time to time, but I would appreciate it if you would wait patiently, just as I do when I go fishing, and watch over me kindly. Fishing makes me happy.

Although dictation is a colloquial article written in a small voice in one line, it is important to make corrections rationally. If you don't make corrections rationally, the article will end up being careless and scattered in all sorts of directions. That's all. Thank you for your growth. This was Watanabe Ten.

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

Book 10: I would like to have about nine meanings in life, and it is these nine meanings in life that change and fluctuate.

 Hello. I'm Ten Watanabe.

The theme of this time is about living. I think that living means eating and walking. For me, eating and walking are the most important tasks in life.

Why do humans live? It's a grand question. I still haven't found a clear answer. Perhaps each person has something like a purpose for living, but I too am just living my life vaguely. Eating and walking are very important themes in this great theme of life.

Eating is a fleeting experience. Even if you feel very satisfied at the time of eating, a few hours after you finish eating, you will probably forget most of the taste. You will probably be more interested in your next meal than in what it tasted like.

On the other hand, walking does not happen in an instant. It requires muscle strength. By walking, you convert the energy you eat into power and move forward steadily. For me, walking is not just about vaguely completing the task of walking; it has a strong tendency to build up, such as thinking about which route to take next, or how spectacular the scenery around me is.

Walking is like stocking up on energy. It can help you lose weight and shed excess fat, and it's also a healthy way to build muscle and wake up easier the next morning. However, that doesn't mean that eating is bad; it depends on the case.

Even if eating is only a momentary act, it can make you feel full until your next meal and leave you feeling very satisfied. The accumulation of these experiences is what makes up our lives as human beings.

I believe that life is a complex web of elements. Many people believe that they can achieve something by living, and some even believe in an afterlife. I have had many different experiences, and I am very grateful for them. When it comes to food, I have fasted for about two weeks, consuming only liquids, and I have also had some very delicious lunches at fancy restaurants.

Humans, or any living thing, are fascinating creatures; we live through a series of moments. Cooking a meal is only a fleeting moment in our lives, but many people find meaning in these moments. In other words, they find meaning in life by eating a warm, delicious meal.

I think it's okay for life to have many different meanings. I've now achieved the meaning of my life I had a while ago. That meaning is a trade secret, but for someone like me who lives vaguely and sees many different meanings in life, or who can't decide on one meaning in life, living seems like a very difficult thing to understand.

I also like walking, and I have walked long distances. Of course, walking is not my life's purpose, but I have walked so much that the skin on my feet has become thick. My feet have become elastic, just like the paw pads of a dog or cat. The skin on my feet has become thick.

Now I can understand that even the paws of dogs and cats have thick paws that have been genetically trained and developed by constantly walking on all fours and always having to choose between walking on all fours or lying down. I've also walked long distances over the past five years. I've seen many different landscapes and walked around inside buildings.

If I were to have a religion, the first three tenets would be to live, eat, and walk. I understand that these three are closely related and inseparable. However, people with disabilities have additional restrictions on their walking, such as using a cane or using a wheelchair.

They probably spend most of their time indoors, but given their limitations on walking, it can be assumed that living indoors means a lot to them.

We often hear people say to take good care of their teeth, and while they are important for eating, taking good care of your feet will also enable you to walk a long distance in life. For me, I desire to have about nine meanings in life, but it is these nine meanings in life that will change and fluctuate. I see this as the nine elements, and the meaning of life that turns into hardship.

For me, life, or living, has nine meanings. What do you seek as the meaning of life? If there is one thing I cannot compromise on, it is that I wish to be able to take a warm bath at any time. That's all. Thank you for your growth. This was Watanabe Ten.

Book 9. If you read long sentences separated by slashes, they will come to mind more easily.

 　Hello. Today's theme is to use slashes to read difficult sentences. I'm currently reading a textbook for the first-level accounting bookkeeping exam, and it's very difficult, so I tried using a technique commonly used in English: using slashes in sentences. (lol)

　By doing this, that knowledge started to sink into my head. It's amazing. When I was a student, I learned how to insert slashes into English sentences to separate them into smaller sections for reading, but that only applied to English sentences, not Japanese sentences. Yay! Slash reading!!

　When I was studying the textbook for the first-grade bookkeeping exam recently, the textbook had difficult sentences, so I found that by dividing long sentences with slashes while reading, it became easier to understand. That's right. Descartes said in his book, "Divide the difficulty," and by dividing long, difficult sentences into smaller parts and reading them, I was able to spend my time very meaningfully.

　In other words, I've been able to spend my time with good value for money. Great value for money!! I have a method of writing ideas and other things in my textbooks, and when I read them for the second time because they are full of notes, I can clearly see what points I was concerned about the last time I read them. I'll analyze it! Ding!

　I once saw a news report that even billionaires practice the method of writing down ideas in a notebook. They write all over textbooks. That's right. There should be an endless supply of ideas. If you take a detailed look at the ideas that pop into your head by chance, and give them a date, you'll be able to remember what you were thinking at the time. Reflection!!

　Even with this blog alone, I record the details of my daily life in a notebook, focusing on themes. Log-log. Recently, a study method I'd like to adopt is to use slashes to separate sentences that are difficult to understand. In particular, the textbook I use for my first-grade bookkeeping exam is a handy one, small enough to hold in one hand, but the content is difficult, so I like to use slashes to separate sentences as I read.

　The content I read after the slash marks is purely for study purposes, and I don't need to obtain any qualifications, so it's just study. However, I would like to write down any questions or discoveries I have while reading, date them, and turn the textbook into an idea book. The treasure trove of ideas!

　I also used to keep a diary, and I would simply copy down the questions and ideas I had written in my textbooks and notebooks into this diary. These days, I write articles of 1,500 characters, whereas before I would write 3,000 characters, but even writing 1,500 character articles is difficult if you're not used to it. It really is the law of inertia. The first few steps are important.

　I would like to aim for my blog posts to be around 1500 characters long. Until now, I have used my own experiences and memorable knowledge as reference material, but I would like to write more academic articles, especially articles more like those of a science writer.

　As a science writer, I would like to start by writing about medicine. I don't intend to write about anything that constitutes medical treatment, so please use this as just one science writer's opinion and use it as a reference. If you use this as a reference and want to create other creative works, please let me know in the comments section.

　Of course, there are copyright issues, so I intend to start from scratch and express the knowledge I have in my head in my own words. Please look forward to it. That's all. Thank you for listening. This is Watanabe Ten.