Japan

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Haiku Thinking : How Limitation of Expression Expands Creative Boundaries — Studio Yorktown

You were so afraid of interpersonal relationships that you came to dislike yourself. You’ve avoided interpersonal relationships by disliking yourself.

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

Don’t waste time doing work you hate. Find your calling and never work a day in your life. Take 5 minutes and journal your Ikigai. Ikigai = your reason for being This simple exercise transformed my life.

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At least once a year @craigmod and I invite remarkable people to walk a week with us. It's always one of the best weeks of the year. We just wrote up a small free booklet that tells you everything we know on how to do your own "walk and talk." https://t.co/dV7l46ByLL

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and she looks into my eyes as if trying to catch the image of a minnow that has darted across the pool of a limpid spring.

Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood

Back in 2008, a Bank of Korea report found that of 5,586 companies older than 200 years in 41 countries, 56% of them were in Japan. In 2019, there were over 33,000 businesses in Japan over a century old, according to research firm Teikoku Data Bank. The oldest hotel in the world has been open since 705 in Yamanashi and confectioner Ichimonjiya... See more

bbc.com • Why So Many of the World’s Oldest Companies Are in Japan

But if you’re saying I should think seriously about my own “from now on,” then first I would need to know about “until now,” as its precondition. PHILOSOPHER: No. Right now, you are in front of me. It is enough to know “you who are in front of me,” and in principle there is no way for me to know “the past you.” I repeat, the past does not exist.

Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day

In Japan, poems should not be tethered to the entanglement of a person’s ego. Humility, modesty, and a keen eye for small details in the natural environment are key attributes. As Basho said, “If you want to learn about the pine, then go to the pine, if you want to learn about the bamboo, then go to the bamboo. When you have become one with them,