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Hector Garcia • The Ikigai Journey
“I plant my own vegetables and cook them myself. That ’s my ikigai.”
Francesc Miralles • Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
When receiving praise becomes one’s goal, one is choosing a way of living that is in line with another person’s system of values.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Jiro, like Yukio Shakunaga, begins his work at “the source.” He goes to the fish market to find the best tuna; Shakunaga goes to the mountains to find the best porcelain. When they get down to work, both become one with the object they are creating. This unity with the object that they reach in a state of flow takes on special meaning in Japan, whe
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Desire for Recognition Makes You Unfree
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
When we visited Ogimi, the Village of Longevity, we discovered that even people over eighty and ninety years old are still highly active. They don’t stay at home looking out the window or reading the newspaper. Ogimi’s residents walk a lot, do karaoke with their neighbors, get up early in the morning, and, as soon as they’ve had breakfast—or even b
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Ikigai: Os segredos dos japoneses para uma vida longa e feliz (Portuguese Edition)
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Gabriel Valdivia
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“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.”