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Why can you foresee business? The truth about the “power to read” the future.

Why can you foresee business? The truth about the “power to read” the future.

It is often said that those who succeed in business are 'people who can read the future.'
However, the reality is a little different.

Successful people are not reading the future; they are creating it.
It is because they have a clear vision of the future they believe 'should be' and build it, that the future comes into being.
That is why they can take leadership as pioneers.

However, many people mistakenly believe that successful people are successful because they can read global trends and the future.
That is because they become fixated on 'doing business' itself.

What should I do to earn money? How can I sell?

The thoughts and ideas that result are merely tracing the successes of others.
In that case, from the moment you create a business in this world, you will have to compete with major rivals.
From the very beginning, you will be forced into a difficult battle.

Those who achieve truly great success are the ones who imagine 'I wish there was a product/service like this,' realize it, and lead the way to pioneer it.
They are people who can imagine 'I want something like this,' 'I wish there was a service like this,' and give it form.

Simply put, it's imagination and the passion to believe in oneself.

Those who can imagine what is needed in the world today and give it form are the ones who achieve the greatest success.
However, of course, since you are creating something that does not yet exist in the world, there are many obstacles.

Above all, the biggest challenge is that people cannot imagine that 'it is necessary.'
When you create a new product or service, you first need to make people recognize that 'it is necessary.'
So, how exactly can we make people recognize that 'it's a good thing'?

A comic called 'Steves' is a good reference here.
It's an autobiographical comic about Steve Jobs and others starting a company called Apple and changing the world.
I often use Apple and Steve Jobs as examples in my explanations.

They created computers when 'computers' didn't yet exist in the world.
At first, no one understood how computers were necessary for the world.
However, with their overwhelming charisma, they gradually made them widespread.

What is charisma? It's overwhelming passion.
It's such a blind level of passion that they believe it will surely create the future and move forward.

The same goes for smartphones.
When smartphones didn't yet exist in the world.
They created the iPhone and quickly made it widespread throughout the world.

The passion to absolutely believe this is necessary and to make people believe it.
And overwhelming drive.

That is precisely what made many people believe in the possibilities and understand that computers were necessary.
If they hadn't had such overwhelming passion, the world might have been several years behind what it is now.
The fact that the world is steadily continuing to evolve like this now is a phenomenon created by their passion.

We cannot read the future.
No one knows what will happen.
We can only create what we believe in ourselves.

By the way, the phenomena they caused have now been elucidated and theorized.
If you want to know what kind of theory it has become,"The Textbook for Creating Work"please read it.
Everyone has now become able to put that method into practice.
However, the fundamental need for passion remains unchanged.

If you desire success in anything, you must approach your work with overwhelming enthusiasm.
If you do so, many people will follow you one after another.

Try to use your imagination.
Once you arrive at an idea that you believe is necessary for the world, begin to act with maximum enthusiasm.

The power to persuade and involve someone is the very passion that person possesses.
An overwhelming passion, almost to the point of blind faith, will pull you and your work towards success.

The future is not something to be predicted.
It is something you build with your imagination and initiative.

The truth of foresight is nothing other than imagination and the passion to believe in yourself.
When you embark on something new, never forget this way of thinking and take the plunge.

上山 翔太

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上山 翔太

2007年からWEBデザイナー / エンジニアとして活動を開始。2015年には、セブ島にて立ち上げた日本人対象のクリエイター育成スクールと運営していたメディアを売却。その後、アメリカで事業デザインを無理やり学ぶ。帰国後は起業家育成プログラムを立ち上げ、新規事業開発、起業家育成に従事するほか、マーケティング戦略策定、ウェブ開発技術を提供。「IT留学シェアハウス」や「起業教育・支援プラットフォーム」を開発、運営。その後、株式会社QUONを立ち上げ。WEB制作事業を軸として、クリエイターと起業家を産む村づくりプロジェクトなどをバリ島と日本を中心に推進。

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