Japan
Japanophile~
Japan
Japanophile~
The information you see on the internet comes to you filtered and tailored to your personal likings and interests. In a bookstore, information of all types comes into your view passively as you browse, even on topics that you don’t follow. Bookstores create a broader context that doesn’t exist on the internet.
The inspiration for the book shop I found myself in is Morioka Shoten, “a single room with a single book” store, in Tokyo. It sells only one book. More precisely, it sells multiple copies of one title that changes weekly, with a small book-inspired art exhibition. It has spawned a network of similar book stores all around the world.
The best sequence is this: clothes first, then books, papers, miscellaneous items (komono) and, lastly, sentimental items and keepsakes.
To identify your ikigai, ask yourself these four questions: ● What do you love? ● What are you good at? ● What does the world need right now? ● What can you get paid for?