Thoughts after researching paid articles on note

Hello, this is Nomu Tominaga.

Golden Week is over and my sons have started school again, so as a self-employed person, I feel a sense of relief. They are already in high school and college, so they hardly need any care, but I am a mother who is sensitive and feels restless when they are at home.

Since I traveled during the first half of this Golden Week, I decided to spend the second half at home researching note, and I read various articles. Both free and paid ones.

The feeling of purchasing an article didn't really click with me, so I hadn't even considered selling articles myself at first.

It wasn't so much that I wasn't interested, but rather that I didn't understand the structure and features of note itself... it was more like, 'You don't even know what you're talking about, lady.'

I'm slow at that [=understanding the structure and features before starting]... I scolded myself, but I figured it's better to do it late than never, and if I can still make it in time, I'll give it a try, so I'm currently studying.


I haven't sold any articles yet.
I've been self-employed for a long time, and while I don't think I have a block about money or resistance to the act of selling, there are many unknowns, such as whether there is a distinction between writing for free and paid content, how to operate the system, and how to price things.
Well, there is a theory that you should just sell it anyway, but for now, I'll start from the side of the purchaser.
I wonder if I still have some resistance?

There's no point in thinking about that, so I decided to learn from the seniors who are already selling like crazy.

The biggest loss is hesitating because of the feeling of 'not wanting to lose out'.

Basically, I believe in doing what I can do myself.
But that is precisely why it is important to determine whether or not I should complete it on my own.

I want to do what I can do myself. But I'm not an omnipotent god. There are overwhelmingly more things in the world that would take an incredibly long time to do on my own, or things where I can't imagine my perspective expanding.

It's a waste of time to even hesitate in that judgment, so I think I should just pay the money and confirm it quickly.

After that, if I feel like I can do it myself, then the money I paid wasn't wasted at all. It was a fee for making a judgment, so it's good that I was able to make that judgment.

The biggest waste is,worrying indecisively about whether you can or cannot do something, and
not moving forward because you are obsessed with your own way of doing things.

Because time equals life.

I think being in a state of 'not wanting to lose out' is what makes you lose the most.
(That doesn't mean you should just impulsively buy things, of course.)

So this time too, I thought it would be faster to borrow the wisdom of an expert... no, to purchase it, so I bought and am reading an article on studying.

Now that reproducibility and verbalization are advancing, we live in an era where wisdom and insights can be bought with money to a considerable extent. I am grateful.
That's why the next step is whether or not I can master it...

Even at markets and flea markets, you start as a buyer.

I wrote that I didn't have the concept of selling articles, but when I looked into it properly, there are many people who do it as a matter of course.

While I was studying, the concept of selling articles that I had in my mind changed.

I see,it's a market for articles!💓

As soon as I was able to translate 'selling articles' into 'a market', I suddenly wanted to try selling them myself.It's not right to suddenly sell without ever having bought anything, right?I thought, so I started by becoming a buyer (← I am here now!)

This is something that happened while I was researching. A change that wouldn't have happened if I had just been doing it vaguely.

Even at markets or flea markets, you start as a buyer.
Of course, it's fine to suddenly become a seller, but if you do that, you might commit a faux pas because you don't understand the buyer's feelings...

When you think about it, we live in an era where people easily buy paid Line stickers.
I'm so slow to realize this!
I must break through my stubborn old lady head.


I've rambled on about various things, but now that I've managed to wipe away my resistance, I spent this holiday tinkering with the system.
I tried setting it to premium.
And so, on the last day of the holiday, I studied using this person's article.

There were 100 points to learn!!
I intended to read it little by little, but there were so many things I agreed with that I ended up reading it all at once.

What I found interesting was, for example, this passage.

I felt like this was hit right on the mark. I had it in me too! I did!

At the root of this feeling was,

the feeling that the seller has more wisdom, the buyer has less, and that the one teaching is superior and the one learning is inferior.

When learning something, it's like the instructor is above the student...

Somewhere in me, there was a strange, sulky attitude that the reader of an article is lower than the provider, and that the other party doesn't know me, the reader...

So, for example, even if I was moved by a famous blogger's article, I would think, 'It's not like I'm an acquaintance or close to them, so even if I introduce it...'—a distorted sense that seems humble but is actually arrogant.

Even though I'm happy when they reblog my articles...

This is truly The Self-Consciousness Overload

By the way, I wrote about a spell to resolve self-consciousness overload here.
You're not [Name], how much are you thinking of yourself!

I was someone who probably held the 'If you buy, you lose, and if you make someone buy, you win' mindset, but
after purchasing and reading the articles of my seniors,

Sense of understanding > Sense of defeat

Far from losing because I bought it, I've even started to think,isn't it a loss if you don't buy it because it's a missed opportunity?This isn't limited to articles. If you act out of a desire not to lose out, you end up losing. I am a seminar instructor, and before a long-term course (which therefore looks expensive as a result), I hold a pre-course to introduce the main course, but

at that time, there are people who stubbornly say 'I'll try it myself,' and among them, there is an aura that they don't want to fail, don't want to lose out,
so'participating in an expensive seminar is a defeat,'
oozes out.

I have received many comments from students saying, 'Considering the value, it's a huge bargain,' and I have set the price consistently without contradictions (under my husband's guidance).

But many people who don't succeed perceive things superficially. There are people who only look at the face value, or who are convinced that sales = being deceived.
For such people, I guess it's a case of 'if you buy, you lose.' Because the 'I don't want to lose out' is at the forefront. That's what they think.

I wonder if the act of buying articles is similar to that.

But on the other hand, of course, that doesn't mean you should just buy everything, or that it's fine to sell anything.

If you buy blindly and
don't learn anything, it's a waste of money, and

if you forcefully sell
things that are not useful,
it won't last long in the end.

Whether it's things or wisdom,
if you buy it, use it to the fullest.
The seller should consider whether it's something that can be used to the fullest.

At the end of the day, it comes down to how much you can explore that.


This is the mindset necessary to turn consumption into investment,
and I believe it is a fundamental principle of business.

Therefore, it is not about buying and moving on, or selling and winning,

but if you buy with care and sell with care,
both sides can be happy regardless of which position you are in.

The world is designed so that if you think about not losing, you will inevitably lose.
Because if you act out of fear, a boomerang of fear will surely return to you.


Thinking about that, the effort and ingenuity put into selling articles is a study in becoming someone who can be useful to both oneself and others.

People pay money for things that are useful to them.

I want to enjoy learning so that I can be useful to many people, and like those who came before me, I want to share insights that make people stop and think.