Coincidence is born from continuous challenges

I don't watch much TV, but I often watch "Gacchiri Monday!!". It's a program that introduces the mechanisms of companies that are making money through various efforts and ingenuity.
I gained many insights today as well.

If you want to see more details, you can go to the program's website, where there are sites where you can watch for a week, and you can also watch past episodes on services like TVer, so please check them out.

The three companies introduced today were all stories of departments that had been researching for 10 years in two cases and 25 years in one case, and after the research results appeared, they made a huge profit. I think the stamina of a company that continues to research every year without knowing whether the research will yield results is also amazing.
But what I thought about today was "coincidence".
With the Vermicular frying pan, it was a "coincidence" that the work process was mistaken, and for the sake rice polishing, it was a "coincidence" that a great success was achieved as a result of incorporating ideas unique to a new employee with little experience. Listening to it like this, it seems like "coincidence" is working well.
If so, we tend to think that such success is just "luck". However, "coincidence" is something that does not occur unless you take action. I realized once again that in order to increase the probability of coincidence, you must increase the total amount of action, including failures. Also, it's no good to just be absent-minded, so it's of course important to always keep your antenna up for problem-solving. And another thing I thought was true is "practice".

In the case of Vermicular, a problem occurred where the metal did not reach the tip when pouring metal into a narrow mold, causing the frying pan to crack. At that time, they said it was important to repeat "trial and error" rather than "logic", so they changed the timing, temperature, and mixing ratio of the 13 types of metal little by little, and repeated trial and error over and over again. And they discovered the best timing, temperature, and mixing ratio. They didn't come up with the answer in their heads, but repeated trial and error. That period was 8 years!
Whoa!

And this is the frying pan that was made.

The incidence rate of "coincidence" increases as the "number of challenges" increases

People often say "failure is the mother of success". I used to think that meant that through failure, you learn "bad methods", exclude those methods, and gradually see the path to success. However, watching this program, I realized that "coincidence" is involved in "success" to a significant extent. That "coincidence" is not "luck", but because of the "number of challenges", which is the population parameter. I realized it's important to continue taking on challenges actively.

It's profitable because it can't be imitated

What commentator Takuro Morimoto analyzed is extremely important.

Multi-year projects are hard to see the end of, and you feel like giving up. But the reason you make a huge profit and a big turnaround happens when you succeed is that other companies cannot enter the field of accumulated effort from that point on.

That is truly important, isn't it? Even if you just snatch the results, that company doesn't have the track record or guts, so it won't last.

Photo: A snack made by cutting mochi into strips, wrapping them in bacon, and grilling them.