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The film "Yaruki no Switch" (The Motivation Switch)
Auditions for 12 hours straight, non-stop!
Seriously intense!
To everyone who took part,
thank you so much!
For all the learning,
thank you!
Long ago,
there was this in Panasonic's hiring interviews.
"Please raise your left hand,"
the interviewer would say — and the person who raised it without any hesitation,
that was the person they hired.
…an honest, open-hearted person is the best!
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The 20% — that two-tenths of complaints — is what matters.
Having no complaints at all is proof you aren't pushing hard enough.
And,
when it's disappointing,
when it's frustrating,
face that frustration.
Because you face it, you grow.
At 30% you’re pushing too hard.
20% is just right.
Let yourself take the hits!
The depth of the frustration is what matters.
Feel the regret deeply.
That's why you grow.
Word choice.
When your vocabulary falls short,
there are moments of frustration.
The roots are what matter.
"Why do we live?"
"What are we living for?"
"What is happiness?"
When you want to convey something,
set a single persona.
A certain shop,
make her your persona.
From up close, from up close…
First, the plate.
The table, the chairs, the walls…
That girl's favorite dishes, the names on the menu —
all of it is a love letter.
That one person breaks down in tears.
And it spreads to 100, to 1,000, to 10,000 people.
Before, after
before → after
How does that person change?
Depict it fully, down to the finest detail.
Keep listening.
Their voice, their smile — what kind of smile?!
A love letter you truly mean.
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The depth and breadth of a single drop… decides the ripples.
Sei-chan's
"make my wife smile" strategy:
create laugh lines!
What will you do?!
Even once you decide, it soon grows stale.
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Destruction and creation.
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What are you living for?
Sei-chan has died four times.
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Let's live in order to enjoy it.
Let's enjoy all of it, to the fullest.
View of life and death
The frequency and depth of my frustration had been too soft (I'd been letting it slip past).
= growth
The depth of the wound
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becomes the depth of gratitude and love.
What are we living for?
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Total affirmation.
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Let's smash it down even further, and become the coolest ramen-shop old man!
Purpose in life (ikigai)
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Ramen
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And then…
What you feel with the heart reaches the heart,
what you think with the head reaches the head.
Reality is the square of light.
The equation of a black hole.
By the time your eyes catch it, it has already receded.
Form is emptiness (shiki-soku-ze-ku).
Live where the three circles overlap.
· Why do you live?
· Is it beautiful?
· Does it meet a man's sense of aesthetics?
A minute difference makes a huge difference!
Before your reply, after it — who do you want to become?!
Down to the details, down to the details.
e.g.) Disney’s "Who shakes the lamp?"
Walt Disney
drew how, when a lamp swayed, a person's shadow would stretch and shrink.
From then on — "Who shakes the lamp?" — down to the finest details,
he is said to have asked his staff to be able to depict it.
With these, you'll always be able to make a living!
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Sei-chan's three great laws
· Curiosity
· The ability to gather information
· Communication
Four brushes with death
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Commit to enjoying it more than anyone!
Wanting to be adored once every 0.2 seconds!
By people,
by your organs,
by the air,
by the walls,
I want to be adored!
I want to be adored even by the heart that keeps me alive!
Why my fingers,
why my legs —
I’m held up by each and every one of them.
Thank you!
Sei-chan's work
Produced numerous well-known hotels
Advisor to some 40-plus companies, including a certain English school
His specialties: assembling talent like Lego, and legal matters
Construction firms too… many companies
And yet he donates everything of his annual income beyond 10 million yen.
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What are you living for?!
Every answer is right!
Wonderful!
Total affirmation!
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Destruction and creation.
When you chase after the answer,
it recedes = form is emptiness.
A journey of seeking.
The worst times
are actually the best times.
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You can grow the most.
I understood pain the most.
Money 80%,
time 20% — that's how it was.
↓↓↓ After a huge failure,
money 20%,
time became 80%.
Wine
is at its most delicious
when the glass is two-tenths full!
The empty space brings out the aroma!
Make the people closest to you happy.
Pay attention even to your words and phrasing.
e.g. "isogashii (busy)" → "gotayou (much occupied)" — a more courteous phrasing
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1. A distinctive approach and strategy in filmmaking and business
· Thoroughly sharing the "roots (purpose)"
· When launching a film or project — before technique, skill, or box office — he makes it the top priority that everyone involved aligns on the fundamental purpose (the "roots"): "what do we live for," "what are we making this work for."
· With team members and cast, he talks deeply one-on-one, aligning each person's axis for living and the direction of the happiness they seek.
· Setting a persona to electrify "just one person"
· Rather than an anonymous mass, he thoroughly sets "just one person (e.g., a woman in her 20s → in detail)" as the persona.
· By building a message and worldview so powerful it moves that person at the DNA level and shakes their life, he ultimately generates broad empathy and a movement.
· An education-and-recovery scheme starting from film
· Beyond theatrical screenings, he links it to post-screening seminars, workshops, and employee-training programs.
· Through the re-experiencing and dialogue the film enables, he moves participants’ hearts, turning it into a "place of learning and growth" beyond mere entertainment, and keeps the ecosystem running.
2. A philosophy of life and mechanisms to accelerate growth
· Constantly updating the definition of "why do I live?!" through "destruction and creation"
· Rather than clinging to the answer he has found or the goal he has set (his "definition of 100 points"), he keeps running a cycle of "destroying" it himself to evolve it further.
· He builds this process into education and daily activity to prevent stagnation.
· Deliberately keeping "20% frustration / bashing"
· Starting from the premise that no growth comes from success alone, he maintains an environment and stance that deliberately accepts "20% frustration and bashing (complaints)."
· He earnestly faces his own shallow vocabulary and shortcomings, converting the depth of that pain directly into the depth of love and growth.
· Sei-chan’s "three great laws"
· He holds up the following three as the core for succeeding in life and moving things forward well:
· Curiosity
· Information-gathering ability (frequency)
· Communication ability
· Based on these, he stands in the other person's shoes and always creates information and dialogue that delights them.
3. Transforming his view of life and death, and a shift in values
· Four life-threatening crises and experiences of hell
· A vascular illness in his 30s, a state of instant death during surgery, memory loss from a drug’s side effects, a heart attack in his 50s — he has faced death four times.
· On top of that, he experienced a massive business failure at the Shanghai World Expo in China, and the grueling four-year court battle and full-recovery saga that followed.
· A shift in values: from "money" to "time and the smiles of those who matter"
· He once bristled like a "hedgehog," fixated on money and results, but crossing the line between life and death and surviving extreme ordeals radically changed his values.
· He let go of 80% of his wealth, choosing instead a lifestyle of "time" and "the room to make those closest to him happy."
4. A way of living grounded in partnership and aesthetics
· Thorough love for "those closest to him" and the renewing of their smiles
· He treats his relationship with his wife (Rieko) and their children as the utmost priority, setting the increasing of his partner's and family's smiles — their frequency and depth — as his greatest goal (a weekly back-calculated metric).
· He lives by the philosophy: "If you can’t make the people closest to you happy, you can’t make anyone beyond them happy."
· A "aesthetics" selection criterion where three circles overlap
· As his standard for action, he has a rule: do nothing outside the area where the following three overlap:
· Is it fun?
· Is it beautiful?
· Does it meet a man’s aesthetics (sensibility)?
· No matter how great the financial return, he declines in one second any deal that isn't beautiful or that goes against his philosophy.
Sei-chan,
really, thank you so much!
From New York,
Juni-san!
thank you!
A successful seminar at Sanctuary Publishing —
congratulations!
New York in November —
I wonder if I can make it~~~
Looking forward to the seminar!
And then…
Fujimoto-san,
thank you so much!
藤本由加💎スピ能力を覚醒させる霊視占い師 (@yykupukupu)
The world of employment support
thank you for the lesson!
As always (lol) — burdock soba!
Everyone at the coaches’ gathering @ Shonan
A time of learning
thank you so much!
Seicho Matsumoto’s "phantom debut work"… published in 1950 under a different pen name; two short stories, including one in mystery form (Yomiuri Shimbun Online)
A "phantom work" — how tempting is that!
Kumamoto relief that a friend launched
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Link to Takumi Yamazaki’s ENGLISH Book “SHIFT”
https://amzn.to/2DYcFkG
Translated from the original Japanese post by Takumi Yamazaki: https://ameblo.jp/takumi-yamazaki/entry-12974875811.html