Abstract

After graduating from university, he set his sights on becoming a public servant, as his parents had told him, but he failed miserably.
This is the story of a young man who has nothing he wants to do, but when he meets a philosophy teacher and a business coach, he learns what it means to look forward and grow, and grows one by one.

He is 22 years old. He has no dreams or goals. Naturally, he has no girlfriend. All he likes is curry.
One day, as he was working part-time without any motivation as usual, a blonde-haired old man came with the owner.
Later, in front of a dubious cafe called "Philosophy Cafe," she meets a bearded, also dubious, old man.

My life was turned upside down because I met these two old men!
This is a story about a freelancer with no dreams and no hopes, who learns, practices, and grows about work, life, and human relations, including what it means to work, live, and think.

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Author’s Information

Katsuhiko Ichien
Consultant specializing in creating repeat business, President, Customer Repeaters Research Institute, Inc.
Born in Osaka. He is a very practical management consultant who has personally managed 12 companies in 8 industries of various sizes, including the restaurant, welfare, IT, and manufacturing industries. He supports business owners nationwide with know-how derived from the "realities of management, not theories on paper," which he has acquired through management of a wide range of industries and sizes, from stores with annual sales of several tens of millions of yen to companies with group annual sales in excess of 20 billion yen. His lectures, in which he condenses his know-how, have been well received and he has appeared at 1,500 venues throughout Japan.

Hitoshi Ogawa
Philosopher; Professor, Faculty of International and Integrated Sciences, Yamaguchi University
Born in Kyoto. Graduated from Kyoto University, Faculty of Law, and completed the doctoral course at Nagoya City University Graduate School. D. in Human Culture. He has a unique career path, having worked for a trading company (Itochu Corporation), as a freelancer, and as a public servant (Nagoya City Hall). He was an associate professor at Tokuyama National College of Technology and a visiting scholar at Princeton University before assuming his current position. He is currently practicing philosophy for the public by organizing the "Philosophy Café" and serving as an instructor for the NHK E-television program "Life Consultations with the World's Philosophers". He has authored about 100 books.

Yoshiki Nakaduka
President, Nippo Station Co.
Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture. After graduating from high school, he joined a small restaurant. In charge of attracting customers, he achieved a 10-fold increase in the number of visits and a 2-fold increase in sales per customer. Later, he moved to a major apparel chain, where he achieved one of the top ten results in Japan as a sales representative. He decided to start his own business by making use of his daily memo (daily report), which was the result of his sales and marketing achievements. He started the daily report consulting business. He has helped 85.6% of the companies he has worked with to more than double their sales.