Monday, May 18, 2026

Success Isn't About Talent — It's About How All-In You Are. Redesigning How We Live, Work, Learn, and Share in the Age of AI.

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"Redesigning How We Live, Work, Learn, Lead and Share 

in the Age of AI""

・How do you read the times? ・Where does value remain? ・What should people use as their weapon for living? ・What do you learn — and what do you let go? ・What is happiness?

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This isn't just about using AI!!

 

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 ・How do you read the times? 

Where does value remain? 

・What should people use as their weapon for living? 

・What do you learn — and what do you let go? 

・What is happiness?

 



1. The Age Where "What No One Else Is Doing" Becomes Value 

"There's no point in being ordinary."

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Examples

  • Spiritual hotels
  • Fortune-telling hotels
  • AI daycare centers
  • AI photography schools
  • Female sushi chefs expanding overseas
  • Shrine-specialist YouTube channels
  • Crowdfunding-specialist YouTube channels


What matters is: Existing industry × Unique angle

Something with no direct competitor.

Example

An ordinary sushi restaurant.

But —

  • Female sushi chef
  • Dubai
  • Entertainment angle
  • Social media-worthy

That's one of a kind!

In the age of AI,

"Anything average" gets automated.

To survive:

  • Stand out
  • Specialize
  • Have your own unique worldview

These are essential. 

 

2. AI is Changing the Structure of Work 

 

Company-Wide AI Integration

Everything inside a company —

  • Slack
  • Conversations
  • Know-how
  • Documents
  • Past projects
  • Website
  • Thought patterns

— all fed into AI,

creating a "giant company brain."

 

 AI handles:

  • Instructions
  • Improvements
  • Analysis
  • Evaluation
  • Reports
  • Action proposals

AI gives the directives!

"Knowledge Sharing"

All the knowledge individuals hold — handed over to AI.

Then —every employee has access to the knowledge of your best employee.

That's the state you reach.

3. Jobs That Disappear/ Jobs that Remain 

Jobs That Disappear

  • Editing
  • Clerical work
  • Legal work
  • White-collar roles
  • General administration
  • Routine work

And more.

Why

AI is moving too fast.

Example: in editing —

  • Premiere
  • Photoshop
  • Adobe

are becoming editable with just a prompt.

Jobs That Remain

Work that involves:

"Physical presence," "Embodiment," "Human connection."

For example:

  • Architecture
  • Cooking
  • Photography
  • Person-to-person support
  • Entertainment
  • Planning
  • Community building

And more.

 

In other words —

In the age of AI,

"The parts only humans can do"

become the value.

4. YouTube・Social Media Strategy

This one went deep.

What matters is "Specialization"

Not view counts —

Who it lands with

is what matters.

What Doesn't Work

  • Posting without purpose
  • Filming without purpose
  • No clear axis
  • Theme too broad

What Works

  • Shrine specialist
  • Crowdfunding specialist
  • Homebuilder specialist
  • Photography specialist
  • AI photography specialist

And more. 

Why does it work?

Because people search for it.

In other words —

"For [topic], this is the person."

You become that.

A great example

3,000 subscribers.

Annual revenue: ¥4 billion.

A homebuilder-focused YouTube channel.

Not view counts —

"High-quality customers"

are what matter.

 

5. The Essence of Video Editing

This one was practical.

YouTubers film with "structure" in mind

They're not just talking.

From the filming stage, they're already thinking:

  • What will get clipped?
  • What will become a Short?
  • What will be the thumbnail?

What counts is

"The ability to think while gathering footage."

In other words —

Film with an editor's eye.

 

6. How Learning Is Changing

"Learning everything" is impossible.

AI is evolving too fast.

So —

"Learn only what you need"

is what matters.

"What you choose to learn" is itself intelligence.

Because there's too much information.

 

7. How Education is Changing

This was the real core of the future conversation.

The Problem with Japanese Education

Right now, it's built around:

  • Memorization
  • One-right-answer thinking
  • Not presenting
  • Reading the room

But the future is different.

What's needed is:

"The ability to ask good questions."

Education in the Age of AI

What children need:

  • The ability to ask
  • The ability to imagine
  • The ability to present
  • Discovering their own strengths
  • Using AI

Example

"AI Daycare"

Let children touch AI.

Then —the ability to think develops. 

 

8. What Successful People Have In Common

 

The common thread:

"They're all-in."

That's it.

On socials too —

The ones who grow are:

  • Analyzing every day
  • Improving every day
  • Experimenting every day

Success is determined not by talent,

but by

how all-in you are.

 

9. The Importance of Routine

Very practical.

How to Change Your Life

"30 minutes a day."

Invest in yourself.

Specific examples:

  • English
  • AI
  • Editing
  • Exercise
  • Gathering information

And more.

The key

Do it at the same time every day.

That becomes

"The small daily accumulation that changes your life."

 

10. What Is Happiness

One of the deeper themes from the second half.

The question that remains after making money:

"What actually makes me happy?"

Answers that came up:

① Supporting others to succeed

Employees, peers, children.

② Sparking a revolution

The feeling of having

"changed the world."

③ Becoming number one at one thing

It can be anything.

Single-point breakthrough.

11. The Realities of Running a Business 

Very grounded.

Business is not easy

  • Taxes
  • Hiring
  • Cash flow
  • Responsibility
  • Risk
  • Mental load

All of it comes at you.

That's why

Running a business was described as:

"A sport that demands full commitment."

 

12. The Most Important Message

If this entire conversation could be summed up in one line:

"Don't fear AI — amplify your own strengths with it."

And the even deeper truth beneath that:

This is an age where "being human" is, in fact, the value.

"Don't fear change — build the future like you're playing."

Not anxiety —

  • Experimentation
  • Curiosity
  • Speed
  • Action
  • Challenge

Go out and meet the future head-on.

 

 

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Today's bag carrier and me — and us 23 years ago! (lol)


 

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Thank you for coming to see me after 23 years! 🙏

 

 

 

 

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Congratulations RYO

 

 

Thank you to all the VIPS who joined us too

 

 

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The venue was absolutely electric!

 

 

In the future, it may be like this・・・

 

 

or this・・・

 

 

and this.

 

 

or how about this〜〜〜

 

 

Feeling like Paris!

Everyone there was absolutely radiant!

 

 

Feeling like a party!

 

 

Feeling like a cruise!

 

 

 

 

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The talk on 10x — so, so good!!!

Mikan-san was wonderful too!

 

 

 

Thank you for the time to rehearse the LIVE

 

 


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