Title: Ikigai - The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
Author: Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
Genre: Self-Help, Meditation, Non-Fiction
Official Blurb
What’s your ikigai?
“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—the place where passion, mission,
vocation, and profession intersect—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?
About the Author
Héctor García is a citizen of Japan, where he has lived for
over a decade, and of Spain, where he was born. He is the author of several
books about Japanese culture, including two worldwide bestsellers, A Geek
in Japan and Ikigai. A former software engineer, he worked at CERN in
Switzerland before moving to Japan.
Francesc Miralles is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author
of books about how to live well, together with the novels Love in Small
Letters and Wabi-Sabi.
Alongside Héctor García, he was welcomed to Okinawa in Japan, where the
inhabitants live for longer than in any other place in the world. There they
had the chance to interview more than a hundred villagers about their
philosophy for a long and happy life.
Book Review
A quick read. The language used is quite lucid and the pace
is pretty decent, which worked perfectly because this book requires a calm mind
to read. The book offers some awesome life lessons we can inhale. The book also
explores different ways to keep ourselves healthy and securing a better
tomorrow for the greater good.
I highly recommend this for self-improvement.
JD’s rating: 4.0/5.0
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