Book 17. Just giving something to the person who is obsessing should be enough to end the obsession.

 Hello. You're welcome. I'm Watanabe Ten. Nice to meet you.

The theme of this article is self-improvement. I know that self-improvement is a powerful stimulant and a powerful miracle drug that can teach you many lessons.

There are many lessons to be learned, and my greatest interest is how to extract lessons from history. The lives of historical figures are passed down to future generations, remaining in the memories of many people and inspiring them. Even self-improvement has taught us many lessons.

I'm sure many readers have read various self-improvement textbooks. Self-improvement includes business books, but they are written as a methodology for social success. Are you making money?

How to behave in order to be successful in society is a very interesting topic, and one that many people are likely to be interested in.

I am currently writing a blog, and this blog itself has a strong self-improvement nature, and can be described as a strategy blog for life. I pray every day that it will become a miracle cure for life. I think human relationships are interesting things.

Just giving someone one thing can make a big difference in how they perceive you. It's interesting, isn't it? However, human relationships are complicated, and when multiple people get together, politics naturally arises. It's a struggle for power.

I believe that self-development is a prescription for improving these human relationships and organizational relationships in society. I understand that we are living in a moment that could be called the Sword of Damocles, just like many historical figures.

The Sword of Damocles means that the person on the throne has a sword hanging above their head by a single thread from the ceiling.

What interests me most at the moment is attachment in human relationships. We become attached to others because relationships are one-sided. Even if one person sees benefits in the other, if the other person does not, the relationship becomes an attachment.

If someone is obsessed with you and you want to break that obsession, I think you need to show them kindness. It's important to have a good discussion and not be harsh. If you show kindness to the other person, what was once an obsessive relationship will naturally turn into an equal relationship. There is a high possibility that it will become a cooperative relationship.

Find benefits for the other person. The world is not driven by profit and loss. Win-win relationships are easy to build cooperative relationships with, but it's easy to imagine how difficult it is to build cooperative relationships when one party has a lot and the other has nothing.

I believe that many historical figures also achieved great things through their many possessions and relationships with many people. Some of them are true heroes to me, and without those relationships they would not have been able to achieve great things.

I believe that self-improvement is a universal technique for humanity that incorporates the wisdom of our ancestors. When you hear the term "self-improvement," some of you might think, "Oh, that's some kind of high-minded thing."

However, just as there are things to learn from great historical figures, there must be many people who are conscious of their predecessors in society. When I look at history textbooks or other textbooks, I think about how I can extract knowledge as lessons.

There are many reference books and textbooks out there, but it's important to learn from history. Giving something to the person who is obsessing you should be able to end the obsession. Self-improvement. It's a deep subject, but even a little insight into it could change your life.

Learn from history. Learn from textbooks. If you're going to read a book, you want to gain something important from it. That's all. Thank you for your growth. This was Watanabe Ten.

Book 16. A standard move is a predetermined harmony, and it is an agreement that allows you to continue playing because you are certain of how the move will be played.

 

Hello. I'm Ten Watanabe.

The theme of this time is breaking down the established rule of impermanence. As beings constantly in flux, we embody the concept of impermanence. Impermanence means that nothing stays the same for long, but everything has the potential to move into a new state.

I know the saying that those who can change are the ones who survive best. They can adapt to new conditions and quickly find their place. I know that the strongest quickly become obsolete.

Even the Edo period came to an end after 260 years. 260 years may seem like a long time, but it actually went by in an instant. As far as I know, 260 years is only the length of three people's lives. Impermanence of all things means seeking change, but once you've succeeded at something, you tend to stick to the methods that worked for you.

I've seen people like this many times, but it's all about trying to catch the same fish a second time. In order to win under the same circumstances, the surrounding conditions must be the same. The same environment. An environment that worked well once may be very different the second time. Is there any point in trying to win the same way?

Of course, there are many ways to win, and they can be used in a variety of situations. These are so-called "joseki" (standard moves), but even these can be easily broken by changing the surrounding environment. Powerful joseki (standard moves) are valid in any era, but if you stick to a method that has won you once, you will quickly become useless.

As time goes by, the weaknesses of the joseki are developed and the joseki is broken. Putting yourself in a position to play is a powerful joseki, but putting your opponent in a position to play is also a powerful joseki.

It's easy to catch a second or third loach. In terms of reproducibility, if a joseki has only recently been created, it can be easily reproduced. This is because the environment is similar. Even with the joseki of Go and Shogi, there are some that have been around for decades, but it cannot be said that playing a joseki will guarantee you a win.

However, if you can create a new joseki every time, that is amazing in itself, but by creating a joseki, new ways of winning will come into view. Essentially, joseki, or ways of winning, are combinations of joseki with other joseki, or ways of winning with other winning methods.

Joseki techniques like these change over time, eventually falling out of use and new ways of winning being created. Joseki techniques are like secret techniques, but at the same time they are something that restricts freedom. New ways of winning not only establish culture but also civilization. Breaking joseki is a tool to gain freedom.

Developing something new also means creating new weaknesses. Finding weaknesses is what breaks the rules, and while continuing to play joseki within established rules gives a sense of stability, if the joseki is disrupted, the moves played according to the rules will immediately fall apart.

Joseki is a pre-established harmony, an agreement that allows you to continue playing because you are certain of how the joseki will be played. It is surprisingly easy to break this agreement. Joseki exists as a stereotype. Breaking a joseki is a move that breaks this stereotype. Breaking a joseki also reflects the impermanence of all things.

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

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