A five-minute guide to the overview and key points of Raising Your Resolution, explained by the author himself
This article was machine-translated from Japanese by AI (Claude). It may contain errors. Read the original Japanese article.
I released a book called "Raising Your Resolution" on November 19, 2022.
This book is the book version of the slide deck of the same name that I published in 2021, with more detailed content (at the time, I published it under the title "Increasing Resolution").
It mainly expands in detail on the content of the following slide decks.
- Raising Your Resolution 🔬 (I have also published version 2)
- Choosing Good Problems 💮 - Value Is Determined by the Problem 💲
- Become a Customer Maniac 😍
If you read these slides and found something useful in them, I would be glad if you would pick up the book as well.
解像度を上げる――曖昧な思考を明晰にする「深さ・広さ・構造・時間」の４視点と行動法
Addendum: As a related book, I have also published "Hypothesis-Driven Action." I would be happy if you read the two together.
仮説行動――マップ・ループ・リープで学びを最大化し、大胆な未来を実現する
🖼️ A framework for raising the resolution of "resolution"
It seems to me that the word "resolution" has come to be used frequently in business conversations. However, the word seems to be used with a variety of meanings.
For that reason, when someone tells you "your resolution is not high enough," it is often unclear what that means and what action you should take.
So in this book, I try to raise the resolution of the word "resolution" itself.
In the framework of this book, I organize resolution into
- Depth
- Breadth
- Structure
- Time
these four perspectives.
By introducing these perspectives, I hope to make the meaning of resolution easier to understand and remember, and to make the word easier to use in everyday business.
💰 Also explains the basics of creating value
It is not only entrepreneurs who are expected to raise their resolution. There must be many people who need a high resolution in their daily work as well.
For that reason, I wrote this book not as a book for startups but for businesspeople, so that younger people in particular would pick it up too. It also explains fundamentals such as why the problem matters more than the solution, and I would be glad if you handed it to new employees and the like to read.
❓🔨 Thinking separately about the resolution of problems and solutions
In this book, I focus on raising the resolution of
- Problems
- Solutions
In the second half of the book, I organize "how to raise the resolution of the problem" and "how to raise the resolution of the solution" from each of the four perspectives of depth, breadth, structure, and time.
Having talked with many people, I find that the "depth of the problem" in particular is often lacking, so I have prepared a chapter that explains it with special emphasis.
🧠 Beyond thinking books: information × thinking × action
I think this book belongs to the genre of so-called "thinking books."
Most thinking books, as the name suggests, focus on thinking, but personally I believe that "taking action" and "obtaining high-quality information" are just as important as thinking.
So in this book, I take the position that, to raise resolution, you have to combine and repeat three things:
- Information (gathering)
- Thinking
- Action
and I summarize methods for raising resolution that also cover the parts other than thinking.
🥋 Introducing "forms" for information × thinking × action
So that you can put things into practice more concretely after reading this book, I introduce, based on the four perspectives, 48 forms, which are the "information × thinking × action" methods needed to raise resolution.
More specifically, they include putting things into words, customer interviews, surveys, dividing and comparing, abstraction and concretization, and looking ahead.
In "Demon Slayer," forms were organized like "Water Breathing, First Form: Water Surface Slash," and I would be glad if you remembered them in the same way, such as "Depth of the Problem, Form 1: Putting It into Words."
It seems to me that entrepreneurial teams who kept these forms in mind, acted first, and worked on it persistently have reached a high resolution with considerable probability (for example, SoftRoid, which participated in FoundX, seems to be one such example).
🚩 First half explains concepts, second half covers methodology
This book has a two-part structure: the first three chapters organize the concept of "resolution," and Chapter 4 onward covers "how to raise resolution."
Veterans who already know to some extent how to raise resolution may find that reading just up to Chapter 3 is enough.
If you are looking for ways to raise resolution, skim Chapter 4 onward as well and be sure to find forms you can use.
🔭 Raising the resolution of the future
The final Chapter 8 includes a chapter titled "Raising the Resolution of the Future." This chapter is meant as an answer to the question I was often asked about my previous book, "Implementing the Future": "How should I picture the future?" I could only write about what relates to resolution in the answer, but I think it covers about half of it.
This chapter also contains a good deal of my personal wishes, and I hope its content reaches the readers.
📙 A great-looking cover design
The cover of "Raising Your Resolution" looks really good, so please go to a bookstore and pick it up.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Four Perspectives for Raising Resolution
Chapter 2: Diagnose Your Current Resolution
Chapter 3: Keep the Forms in Mind, Start by Taking Action, and Keep Working on It Persistently
Chapter 4: Raising the Resolution of the Problem: "Depth"
Chapter 5: Raising the Resolution of the Problem: "Breadth," "Structure," and "Time"
Chapter 6: Raising the Resolution of the Solution: "Breadth," "Structure," and "Time"
Chapter 7: Experiment and Verify
Chapter 8: Raising the Resolution of the Future
On Saturday, 11/19, from 18:10 to 19:00, I plan to talk on Twitter Space with my editor, including behind-the-scenes stories up to publication. If your schedule allows, please join us.