[Grandpa is thrilled!] Thank you for my first 100 'Likes'😊

#ThankYouNote

While watching young people gather many followers and receive many 'Likes' in the blink of an eye, and seeing them post 'Thank you' notes, I have been posting steadily at a turtle's pace, thinking, 'That's amazing.'

When I checked on the night of April 12th, the 'Like' count for the pinned article on the 'Retirement Old Guy Channel' home screen, titled '【Grandpa's Grumbling】 I want to hear it again: Grandpa, I love you the most in the world!'', had reached 100.

I am very happy. To everyone who clicked 'Like' and supported me, thank you so much.

✅1️⃣ Initial Goals

I set goals when I started note.

1) 30 consecutive posts → (Revised upward) 100 days
Since I thought one month was easy once I tried it, I decided to aim for 100 consecutive days of posting as one of my goals.

2) 100 Likes
My other goal was to receive 100 'Likes' on a single article... Yay! Goal achieved!

✅2️⃣ My own approach

Initially, I wanted to summarize in my own way the factors behind the 'decline in Japan's international competitiveness' and the growth gap between Japan and the U.S. that I grumble about daily, so I uploaded 17 articles on the 'Japan-U.S. growth gap.'

I found note to be a world that welcomes beginners and a very comfortable, kind SNS where I don't see any slanderous articles.

Thinking, 'This is perfect for an old guy like me,' I posted at a high pace of 26 articles between my first post on March 20th and April 2nd.

When I started posting, my eldest son was concerned and gave me a pile of books on presentations.

'Dad, if you're fine with it being a self-satisfying hobby that no one reads, then what you're doing now is fine, but you're writing some pretty good stuff, so it's a waste. You need to think a little about what the reader expects, or you won't get any 'Likes',' he advised me.

As my son suggested, I decided to first read many other people's notes and study them.

Before I knew it, reading and listening to the articles and audio streams of everyone I follow became my daily routine and a daily pleasure.

After studying by reading others' notes and posting 17 articles on the Japan-U.S. growth gap and 9 consecutive articles on the blind spots of climate change, I posted my 'Self-Introduction Note' on April 3rd.

That was the one that received '100 Likes' ('I want to hear it again: Grandpa, I love you the most in the world!'').

✅3️⃣ Let 'fun' be your driving force!

Right now, I'm having so much fun that I can't help it, and I feel like I've found a great hobby, but even though the goal was supposed to be 'to enjoy it,' if it ends up being perverted into a focus on the number of consecutive days posted or the number of likes, it could easily become painful.

The U.S. is very enthusiastic about HR (Human Relations) research, and they conduct many interesting experiments on things like motivation. Among them, one story I like is about how things become painful once they become 'work'.

They gathered people who love quizzes and explained that the experiment was to have them solve quizzes for 8 hours without leaving the room. They were told they could not leave the room except to use the restroom, but that during the lunch break, they could take a one-hour break from the quizzes, including time for a meal, and then the experiment began.

The quiz lovers were having so much fun that they even forgot to eat when the lunch break arrived. It is said that almost everyone cut their lunch break short to keep solving quizzes.

However, when they changed the experimental conditions so that they would receive 100 yen for every question solved—the moment solving quizzes was linked to a reward—what happened was that almost everyone stopped working when the lunch break arrived, ate their meal, and took the full hour off.

Human psychology is interesting, isn't it?

I suspect that while for an amateur golfer, golf is just fun, for a professional golfer, golf cannot just be fun, and they likely feel pain, pressure, and stress from it.

The moment the goal is no longer purely to enjoy something, but to earn a reward, what was once fun might turn into pain.

That is why I will continue my note with the sole purpose of 'enjoying it' without putting too much pressure on myself, and I would be happy if you would continue to read it.

I look forward to your continued support.

Thank you for reading until the end.
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