IKIGAI : The Japanese Secret To A Long And Happy Life By HÉCTOR GARCÍA & FRANCESC MIRALLES

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IKIGAI : The Japanese Secret To A Long And Happy Life By HÉCTOR GARCÍA & FRANCESC MIRALLES

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“Workers looking for more fulfilling positions should start by identifying their ikigai.” ―Business Insider
“One of the unintended—yet positive—consequences of the [pandemic] is that it is forcing people to reevaluate their jobs, careers, and lives. Use this time wisely, find your personal ikigai, and live your best life.” ―Forbes

Find your ikigai (pronounced ee-key-guy) to live longer and bring more meaning and joy to all your days.
“Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.” —Japanese proverb

According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai—where what you love, what you’re good at, what you can get paid for, and what the world needs all overlap—means that each day is infused with meaning. It’s the reason we get up in the morning. It’s also the reason many Japanese never really retire (in fact there’s no word in Japanese that means retire in the sense it does in English): They remain active and work at what they enjoy, because they’ve found a real purpose in life—the happiness of always being busy.

In researching this book, the authors interviewed the residents of the Japanese village with the highest percentage of 100-year-olds—one of the world’s Blue Zones. Ikigai reveals the secrets to their longevity and happiness: how they eat, how they move, how they work, how they foster collaboration and community, and—their best-kept secret—how they find the ikigai that brings satisfaction to their lives. And it provides practical tools to help you discover your own ikigai. Because who doesn’t want to find happiness in every day?

Author

Héctor García was born in Spain and worked at CERN in Switzerland before moving to Japan, his home for 16 years and counting. In Tokyo, when he is not writing his next book, he makes a living in the IT industry. His popular blog led to his international bestseller A Geek In Japan. He is the author of the bestselling Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life; translated to 57 languages, has the strange honor of being the most translated book ever originally written in Spanish language. To this day he has published seven books, his latest one is: The Book of Ichigo Ichie.

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Introduction

THIS BOOK FIRST came into being on a rainy night in Tokyo, when its authors
sat down together for the first time in one of the city’s tiny bars.
We had read each other’s work but had never met, thanks to the thousands
of miles that separate Barcelona from the capital of Japan. Then a mutual
acquaintance put us in touch, launching a friendship that led to this project
and seems destined to last a lifetime.

The next time we got together, a year later, we strolled through a park in
downtown Tokyo and ended up talking about trends in Western psychology,
specifically logotherapy, which helps people find their purpose in life.
We remarked that Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy had gone out of fashion
among practicing therapists, who favored other schools of psychology, though
people still search for meaning in what they do and how they live. We ask
ourselves things like:

What is the meaning of my life?
Is the point just to live longer, or should I seek a higher purpose?
Why do some people know what they want and have a passion for life,
while others languish in confusion?

At some point in our conversation, the mysterious word ikigai came up.
This Japanese concept, which translates roughly as “the happiness of
always being busy,” is like logotherapy, but it goes a step beyond. It also
seems to be one way of explaining the extraordinary longevity of the
Japanese, especially on the island of Okinawa, where there are 24.55 people
over the age of 100 for every 100,000 inhabitants—far more than the global
average.