Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

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Oppong references the book “Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life” by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles, which outlines ten rules for finding and living your Ikigai:

1. Stay active and don’t retire

2. Leave urgency behind and adopt a slower pace of life

3. Only eat until you are 80 percent full

4. Surround yourself with good friends

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With Ikigai (“your true calling”), we discussed how the citizens of Okinawa, Japan find their “reason to get out of bed in the morning” by discovering a personal passion project.

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