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AI developing AI, robots building robots.
Humans become disconnected from money.
Savings, debt — none of it means anything anymore, and every job gets taken over.
At that point, what will humans push themselves for?
There's no meaning to living — that's what the Buddha taught.
So, how do you live?
So, why do you live?
When you study at Rinri Hojinkai they tell you to run your company by pure ethics, but maybe what they're really saying is, live your life by pure ethics?
So, how do you live?
So, why do you live?
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Talk live with Dr. YOKO
A seminar for athletes and retired pro players!
■Are you struggling with any of these? ・You don't know what you really want to do ・You're working hard but not getting results, and your confidence is fading ・You're afraid of failure and can't take that first step ・You're taking on challenges, but somewhere inside you feel "I can't do this" ・You feel resistant whenever you hear the words "goal achievement"
■Here's what happens when you take it ・You get excited about the direction of your life, thinking "This is what I want to do" ・You stop being thrown around by results or other people's opinions, and act with "your own kind of confidence" ・Instead of fearing failure, you can lightly take on challenges with "let me just try" ・You let go of the belief "I can't do this" and start believing in your dreams and possibilities ・Goal achievement transforms from "something painful" into "a process of enjoying life as yourself"
■This talk is recommended for ・Athletes who want to make their dreams come true ・People who want to keep holding onto dreams even after retirement ・People who are working hard but struggling because they can't reach their goals
■Title How to Make Your Dreams Come True, Your Way
■Date & Time May 23 (Sat) 22:00–23:00 @Online via Zoom
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We had a great time〜
Thank you
See you next time!
Rinri Hojinkai (Ethics Association) guests, thank you so much for inviting me to speak!
Thank you to everyone at Kasumigaseki
I joined from morning
When you connect with Yamaguchi-san's character,
something just straightens up inside you~~~
The adults here are full out!
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Overall Theme
The central theme of this talk is: In an era where AI and robots will dramatically change work, what should humans build their lives around?
The conclusion is the message that humans are moving into an era of living centered on "mission," "pure ethics," "love," "creating memories," and "excitement."
1. Introduction｜Interest in the Ethics Corporation Association
First, the speaker has a strong interest in why Rinri Hojinkai (Ethics Corporation Association) is growing. Among various organizations like JC, Rotary, and Lions, Rinri Hojinkai is the one that's growing.
So the speaker, from a business owner's perspective, is researching...the reason for the explosive growth in membership.
Is there meaning in the singing?
Is there meaning in the bowing?
Is there meaning in gathering early in the morning?
Does pure ethics itself have power?
The premise here is: There's always a reason behind something that's growing.
2. Recap of yesterday's talk｜The White Engine and the Black Engine
Yesterday's theme was:
Living aligned with your mission, or living off-mission.
The Black Engine is...
The Black Engine is
I don't want to lose
I want my parents to recognize me
I want to be number one
I want to beat last year's revenue
I want to show them —
that sort of motivation that burns from the outside.
It's like a newspaper fire.
It blazes intensely for a moment. But it doesn't last.
So when your motivation disappears, it's not that you've lost drive —
simply that your Black Engine has burned out.
You don't need to blame yourself.
That's how he explains it.
The White Engine is...
The White Engine is motivation based on
mission
contribution
selflessness
giving
the power to fly far and long.
This kind of motivation lasts.
In other words,
short-distance success is possible with the Black Engine,
but long-distance life can only be flown with the White Engine.
3. Dana｜Mission Means Giving
The speaker introduces the value of "dāna."
Dāna, from ancient Sanskrit, means
offering what the other person truly wants.
When this crossed into the West,
it became the root of "donate," and in Japan, it's said to be the origin of the word "danna." (husband)
Here, Takumi Yamazaki sees it this way:
to live your mission is to live give-and-give.
In other words, your mission isn't just for yourself — it's using yourself for someone else.
4. Profile Introduction｜Continuously making dreams come true
The speaker talks about how to make dreams come true, using his own life as an example.
Main Background
Born in 1965. From Ise-Shima, Mie Prefecture.
Family business: pearl farming. Originally planned to become a P.E. teacher.
In high school, was at the top national level in the 400m hurdles.
Started his business at age 20.
Began publishing about 30 years ago.
Currently on his 63rd book, with plans to reach 70.
Total sales: 2 million copies. Published in the US, China, Korea, Taiwan, and elsewhere.
Total social media followers: about 600,000.
At his coaching school, has trained about 740 professional coaches.
Operates restaurants in New York and Kyoto.
Currently taking on the challenge of being a film director.
In his painting work, has even realized a collaborative exhibition with the Rolling Stones.
What he's communicating here is:
your life doesn't have to end with just one title.
He couldn't become a teacher.
He couldn't become a singer.
He couldn't become a film director.
Now, past 60, he's laying those unfinished dreams to rest one by one.
5. Dreams Get Smaller as you Grow Up
The speaker talks about his childhood dreams.
In elementary school, he wanted to become Ultraman and save the earth.
But as he grew up, he was told, you can't make a living doing that look at reality just live a normal life — and his dreams shrank.
You'd think the more you learn, the bigger your dreams would get — but in reality, they get smaller.
The key expression here is: along the roadside of life, dreams that never came true are standing there like ghosts.
So the second half of life is the time to lay those dreams to rest, one by one.
6. The Central Figure of the AI Era｜Elon Musk
The speaker takes Elon Musk as a figure symbolizing the AI era.
The Reality of 133 Trillion Yen
He puts Elon Musk's net worth at 133 trillion yen, and to give a sense of what that actually means, he explains: even if you spent 170 million yen every single day from the birth of Christ until today, you'd only just now reach 133 trillion yen.
In other words, his influence isn't just that of a wealthy person — he's a presence that shapes the direction humanity is heading.
7. The PayPal Mafia and the Platform Revolution
The PayPal Mafia is the group of people who came out of PayPal and went on to create various innovative companies. The speaker explains PayPal as an antithesis to the existing financial system.
Originally, you could just send money directly from person to person.
But when you go through a bank, a fee gets added.
This kind of structure is called a platform business.
PayPal was born from the idea: why don't we just send it directly?
What's important here is the perspective that a new era begins from questioning vested interests.
8. The Crisis Facing White-Collar Workers due to AI
Due to AI Right now, intellectual labor is starting to be taken over by AI.
Especially in America, situations are emerging where even graduating from college doesn't guarantee a job. American college students graduate carrying huge loans. Until now, they could land high-paying jobs and pay them off.
But with the arrival of AI, that premise is starting to crumble. So value is shifting toward jobs that use your hands — boiler technicians, plumbers, agriculture. This is the trend of the Blue-Collar Millionaire.
But the speaker goes further: blue-collar work, too, will eventually be replaced by robots
9. The Arrival of the Robot Era
Elon Musk's humanoid robots cost about 3 million yen each, and can work 24/7, 365 days a year. They don't complain. They don't rest. They're cheaper than a new hire's annual salary.
When that happens, companies might make the call:
next year's hires won't be humans — they'll be 10 robots.
In China, schools for robots to learn at have already been created.
Robots watch human movements and learn.
Once one robot learns something, that information goes up to the cloud and is shared with other robots.
In other words, we're entering an era where one robot's learning becomes every robot's ability.
10. Starlink, Rockets and the Mobility Revolution
Elon Musk's Starlink is changing communication infrastructure.
Even when Ukraine's communications were cut off, Starlink kept the internet running.
But to flip that around, whoever runs Starlink holds the lifeline of communication.
Also, with rocket technology, the possibility is discussed that in the future, you could travel anywhere on earth in 37 minutes. Narita to New York in 37 minutes. Paris in 37 minutes.
The message here is: the very premises of travel, communication, labor, and intelligence are all about to change in one sweep.
11. The Rollercoaster Theory｜We're Right Before the Drop
The speaker compares the current era to a rollercoaster.
Clank, clank, clank up the climb, reaching the top, just about to plunge down.
In other words, the AI and robot revolution hasn't even really begun its drop yet.
From here, society will change rapidly.
Robots build robots. AI builds AI.
An era may come where each person has 5 robots.
In Japan, that would mean a society with 500 million robots.
12. So How Do Humans Live
Here's where we get to the heart of it.
If AI and robots are going to take over the work, what should humans do?
The speaker's conclusion is: live in accordance with pure ethics.
A society where honest people don't lose out.
A society where those who live with integrity are rewarded.
A society where people care for one another.
This is what becomes important.
He brings up the example of China's surveillance society, where AI manages things like jaywalking and honking, and as a result, manners have improved.
And there are voices saying happiness levels have gone up because of this.
Whether you see this as surveillance or as order is another question, but it illustrates the difference between a society that builds ethics from the outside, and a society that lives ethics from the inside.
What Rinri Hojinkai aims for is the latter.
13. Digital Nature｜AI Observes Nature and Robots Build
According to talks by Yoichi Ochiai and Masamichi Toyama,
from here on out,
the era of humans observing nature
humans thinking
humans creating
is coming to an end.
Instead, we move into an era of
AI observing nature
AI thinking
robots creating.
When that happens, the boundary between what humans have built and what AI and robots have built shifts.
New buildings, new services — they emerge spontaneously, like dandelions blooming.
This is Digital Nature.
14. The SINIC Theory｜Building Society By Working Backward from the Future
SINIC Theory is also introduced.
SINIC Theory is the way of thinking that predicts changes in future society and works backward from there to create the technologies and products that will be needed.
Based on this thinking, Omron created things like ATMs and automatic ticket gates.
The point here is: the future doesn't arrive by chance — structurally, it has to head in a certain direction. That's why people who can read the future know what to build right now.
15. 2032｜Humans Return to Nature's Rhythm
The speaker says that around 2032, humans will no longer be able to keep up with the evolution of AI and robots, and a period will come where they stop and wonder what are we supposed to do?
At that point, humans return to the rhythm of nature.
Trees grow, fruit falls, new shoots appear.
Sleep. Wake up. Breathe. Feel. Taste.
The answer introduced from Audrey Tang is: sleep.
In other words, rather than trying to beat machines, humans need to reclaim our original human rhythm.
16. Google's Announcement｜AN Era Where Everything Gets Automated
With Google's announcement, we're told an era is coming where AI on the back end of your smartphone reads your behavioral patterns and acts automatically.
What's important here is: AI moves at the current level of the person using it.
So if your skills stay low, AI will only assist you at a low level.
On the flip side, if you raise your sensibility and judgment, AI will work at a higher level for you.
In other words,
precisely in the AI era, we need to raise the standards on the human side.
17. How to use AI｜Mutter, Don't Type
As a practical point from the talk, how to use AI is introduced.
After AI gives you an answer, instead of just reading it,
mutter your impressions out loud using voice input.
For example, things like
"That's not quite it"
"I want a feeling with more humor"
"Like everyone having fun with water balloons"
"That's off"
"That's the opposite"
"This one's good."
When you do this, AI picks up that sense and improves its next suggestion.
In other words, AI isn't a tool you command — it's a partner you nurture through dialogue.
18. The Work of Humans in the Future
Once AI and robots take on most of the work, what will human work be?
The speaker says: imagining the future of humanity.
"Wouldn't it be lovely if it became like this?"
"How about a world where people say 'I love you' to each other when they pass on the street?"
"Wouldn't life be richer if you could have an experience like this?"
— drawing pictures of the future.
AI and robots move in the direction of making that real.
In other words, human work becomes
not doing tasks, but imagining a desirable future.
19. The Era of Killing Time being an entire Industry
When work gets taken over by AI and robots, humans end up with time on their hands.
What grows then is the time-killing industry.
Singing songs.
Listening to songs.
Teaching songs.
Holding events.
Traveling.
Talking with each other.
Meditating.
Making memories.
In other words, we shift from the age of production to the age of experience.
But what you get in return won't necessarily be money.
New trust, new evaluation, new connections, new meaning — these may become the new value.
20. From Universal Basic Income to Universal High Income
Work concentrates in companies that hold massive numbers of AI and robots.
That's because labor costs go down, and product prices go down.
Consumption concentrates on those cheap products, and those companies get even bigger. From there, taxes are paid, and through the government, distributed to people.
This is the flow of Universal Basic Income.
Elon Musk goes further, talking about an idea called Universal High Income.
In other words, in the future, an era may come where people receive abundance beyond what they could possibly use.
21. The Final Message｜Taking of the Limits
The goal of this talk is for everyone to have their mind blown, and their limitations drop away.
AI is scary.
Robots will take my job.
I can't keep up with the times.
Don't think like that.
Instead, see it this way: amazing things just happen, casually
life is about making memories
what kind of experiences do you want to have?
humans become beings who paint pictures of love and the future.
This is the core of the entire talk.
A final word in summary
This talk isn't simply a course on how to use AI.
It's a talk that overlays futurology and life philosophy — saying that in an era where AI and robots transform society, humans return to "mission," "ethics," "love," "excitement," and "making memories."
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