On Kodansha’s web platform Gendai Business, a special series inspired by Daisuke Yosumi’s book The Don’t-Do List for Life has just launched. Each article draws on the book’s core ideas—excerpted, re-edited and expanded—and brings them vividly to life. Ten features have now been published online.

Part 1: From “hopeless employee” to record-breaking hit maker — the surprising method to unlock your ideal way of living
Part 2: Why a star producer of major artists looks past talent and looks — and focuses only on this one essential point
Part 3: How talking solely about “fishing” won a job against 400-to-1 odds — lessons on public speaking from a million-selling producer
Part 4: Forget fixing your flaws — the power of cultivating your unique absolute individuality. The life-changing encounter with a male vocal duo
Part 5: What youth baseball taught a top producer: becoming a quiet, unglamorous #3 batter who bunts his way to national victory — and the enduring life lessons within
Part 6: How “time alone” becomes an irreplaceable treasure — discovering Artist Time as the key to reclaiming your true self
Part 7: Why a million-selling producer who broke countless records chose to live for over a decade in a shabby, 40-year-old flat
Part 8: Why the million-hit producer sounds a warning against the very idea of the To-Do List
Part 9: A “failed salesman” who couldn’t lie or follow orders… the positive escape that carried a future hit-making producer through his struggling years
Part 10: The deeper the scars, the stronger the originality — lessons on uncovering your unique individuality from a producer behind some of the nation’s best-loved artists

Do give it a read!