I tried writing the intro to a common habit-building article in the style of popular artists for people in their 30s and 40s [Quiz Edition]
Last time, when I wrote the intro to 'reasons for writing common notes' in the style of various artists, I received several comments.
So, this time I've turned it into a quiz.
The theme is,
'the intro to a common habit-building article'.
Here is the typical text.
習慣を作るのは簡単ではありません。
いつも3日坊主の私は、
何を始めても長続きしませんでした。
そのたびに「自分は意思が弱いんだ」と
落ち込んでました。
でも、習慣は根性ではなく
仕組みで作るものだと気づきました。
今回は、習慣化が苦手だった自分が
試してきたことをまとめて紹介します。There are 5 questions, and the artists are the following 7 people.
In other words, 2 of them are dummies.
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Noriyuki Makihara
Masaharu Fukuyama
Kazumasa Oda
Miyuki Nakajima
Yumi Matsutoya
Hideaki Tokunaga
Now, who is which?
Please, by all means, join in,
and leave your answers in the comments.
The correct answers will be written in the 50-day growth article.
※I will leave hints in the comments section
in case it's difficult.
No.1
There are days when I just can't keep going.
The resolve I had until yesterday
is no longer in my hands today.
Only the first page of my new planner
is strangely straight, silently showing
the sincerity of who I was that day.
And yet, I cannot move forward from there.
No matter how many times I try, I stop halfway.
No matter how many times I try, I can no longer catch up with myself.
However, you must not
end it there.
If you can't keep it up,
you just need to create a form you can keep up.
If you break, you just need to
create a path back from where you broke beforehand.
There is no need to wait to become a strong person.
There is surely a way to move forward even while remaining weak.
I want to summarize the
"tricks for continuing" that I have searched for without giving up.
Not to fly high.
To carry myself, who is about to stop,
forward once again.
No.2
Hey, why is it
so difficult to continue doing ordinary things every day?
Even the new planner I bought is neatly
filled out for only the first few pages,
and after that, it just doesn't continue.
Every time that happens, I think, 'Here we go again.'
I start to dislike myself a little,
thinking I can't even keep up with things like this.
I always thought that if I just had the willpower,
I could change.
I thought if I just tried hard enough, I could make it work.
But somehow, that alone wasn't enough to keep it going.
Instead of forcing myself to hold on, I create a structure
where I'm already in motion before I even realize it.
I realized that for consistency,
that kind of ingenuity is more important.
Because I've stumbled so many times and felt discouraged so many times,
yet I've searched for ways
to keep going little by little.
Today, I'm going to summarize the ones
that worked for me.
No. 3.
Why is it so hard
to keep things going?
On the days I decide to do things right,
I stand a little taller.
I open a new planner and write with care.
For that moment alone, I feel like
someone a little different from who I was yesterday.
But that feeling never lasts long.
Before I know it, the planner is left unfinished,
and the things I decided to do have,
without me noticing, returned to how they were.
Over and over again,
I've started and stopped.
Every time that happened, I thought I just
didn't have the power to keep going.
But, while stopping at the same place many times over,
I've come to understand something a little better.
What you need to keep going,
wasn't about maintaining a strong will.
It's about reaching for it naturally, without forcing yourself.
It's about being able to return to where you left off yesterday,
without having to try so hard.
Creating that kind of small flow,
that was much more important.
This time, I'll summarize the things I've tried,
taking the long way around,
as someone who used to be bad at building habits.
Not to change everything,
but just to make it a little easier to continue,
than it was yesterday.
No.4.
Why is it,
so hard to keep going?
The day I opened a new planner,
thinking that this time, I'd really give it my all.
Only the first page is filled with
handwriting so neat it's almost surprising.
Back then, I really
felt like I could change.
But before I know it, I stop again.
Just by getting a little busy,
yesterday's feelings start to fade.
I feel like I've
repeated that over and over again.
Every time that happens,
I wonder if I just have a weak will.
I wonder if there's something different
about people who can actually keep it up.
But maybe it's because I try to rely only on willpower
that it becomes so painful.
Something you can keep doing without forcing it,
something you can return to before you even realize it.
Creating something like that in advance
is what's truly important.
Today, I'd like to summarize the things I, who used to be bad at building habits, have been trying out little by little.
No.5
I want to keep it up.
Honestly, I've always felt that way.
Even on the day I bought a new planner,
I felt like I could change starting today.
Every time I see the neat handwriting left on the first page,
I think that the wish I had back then
was the real thing.
But, it doesn't last.
I drift away little by little, and before I know it,
I'm back to where I started, as if nothing ever happened.
In that way, there were many times
when I couldn't keep up with myself.
I believed somewhere deep down
that if I had the will, I could change.
But in truth, I think that
willpower alone wasn't enough.
Even if there are days when you fall apart,
a form that lets you come back again.
What was needed was surely that kind of
quiet support.
Today, I want to write about the things I've tried
to finally be able to keep going,
even though I used to be bad at building habits.
Bonus (Free entry)
Talking about building habits
might seem easy enough,
but for some reason, it's actually quite tough.
On the day you buy a new planner,
the first few pages look impressively
splendid, but it doesn't last beyond that.
It's as if my resolve alone
is running out of breath first.
Even if I try saying it's all about spirit and guts,
it seems humans just aren't
built that conveniently.
If that's the case, I have no choice but to set up
a routine that makes my body move on its own.
So, this time, I, a habitual
quitter, have finally found it.
I'm going to write a little bit about
the 'technique for keeping it up'.
Impressions
When you read it with that in mind,
you might think it does feel like that.
But I feel like the way you receive it changes quite a bit
depending on whether you find out who wrote it after reading,
or if you read it while being conscious of that person
from the very beginning.
So in reality, you might often feel things like,
'Huh, is it really that different?' or
'It's not as similar as I thought.'
Even I, the one creating this,
often lost track halfway through,
wondering, 'Is there really a difference here?'
