The ikigai journey A practical guide to finding happiness and purpose the Japanese way

Héctor García, 1981-

Book - 2020

"In The Ikigai Journey, authors Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles take their international bestseller Ikigai: the Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life a step further by showing you how to find your own ikigai through practical exercises, such as employing new habits and stepping outside your comfort zone. Ikigai is the place where our passion (what we love), mission (what we hope to contribute), vocation (the gifts we have to offer the world) and profession (how our passions and talents can become a livelihood) converge, giving us a personal sense of meaning. This book helps you bring together all of these elements so that you can enjoy a balanced life"--Provided by publisher.

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Published
Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing [2020]
Language
English
Spanish
Main Author
Héctor García, 1981- (author)
Other Authors
Francesc Miralles, 1968- (author), Russell Calvert (translator)
Item Description
Originally published in Spanish as El método ikigai: despierta tu verdadera pasión y cumple tus propósitos vitales by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U., Barcelona, 2017.
Physical Description
224 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
ISBN
9784805315996
  • The Ikigai Adventure A Journey Through the Stations of Happiness
  • Part 1. A Journey Through Our Future
  • 1 st Station: Shinkansen "Bullet train" thinking
  • 2 nd Station: Mount Fuji Stretching the boundaries
  • 3 rd Station: Ganbarimasu The power of patience and perseverance
  • 4 th Station: New Habits 21 days to change your life
  • 5 th Station: Feedback How others see us
  • 6 th Station: Senpai Put a mentor (or two) in your life
  • 7 th Station: Emulating Discovering, imitating and outdoing
  • 8 th Station: Your Element Through what you don't like, you'll get to what you do
  • 9 th Station: Franklin A method for strengthening our virtues
  • 10 th Station: Gasshuku "Shinkansen sessions"
  • 11 th Station: Adventure Stepping outside your comfort zone
  • 12 th Station: Timing Taking each train in time
  • 13 th Station: Pareto The 80/20 rule
  • 14 th Station: The Power of Words Give your projects memorable names
  • Part 2. A Journey Through Our Past
  • 15 th Station: Kindergarten Recovering the power of children
  • 16 th Station: Nostalgia Returning to the source of our happiness
  • 17 th Station: Friendship Reboot your friend map
  • 18 th Station: Hindsight Connect the dots
  • 19 th Station: Analog How to go on a digital diet
  • 20 th Station: Slow Life You can get a long way walking slowly
  • Part 3. A Journey Through Our Present
  • 21 st Station: Presence If you aim at two ducks, you miss them both
  • 22 nd Station: To Write is to Select The power of putting pen to paper
  • 23 rd Station: Haiku Awaken your inner poet
  • 24 th Station: Crucial Decisions Initiatives that change your life forever
  • 25 th Station: Night Shift Activating the nighttime office
  • 26 th Station: Enso The circle of inner harmony
  • 27 th Station: Koan The power of lateral thinking
  • 28 th Station: Mindfulness Cultivating your undivided attention
  • 29 th Station: Serendipity When accidents are fortunate
  • 30 th Station: Rak Random Acts of Kindness
  • 31 st Station: Touch The importance of touching
  • 32 nd Station: Uncertainty The best plan is not to have one
  • 33 rd Station: Kaizen Constantly changing for the better
  • 34 th Station: Kyudo The art of archery
  • 35 th Station: Toshogu The lesson of the three monkeys
  • How to Awaken the Power of Ikigai
  • Tune in to your life goals
  • The end is the beginning
  • The 35 keys to living your ikigai
  • Acknowledgements
Review by Library Journal Review

From the authors of Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life comes a sequel that goes beyond the concept of understanding and empowering all aspects of ikigai (one's purpose in life). Garcia and Miralles use the metaphor of the busiest train in Japan, taking readers through various stations in the future, past, and present. Along each stop readers are instructed how to develop patience and perseverance, cultivate undivided attention, and tune in to life goals. Ikigai adherents can find their ultimate purpose by listing their attributes in a Venn diagram to point the way to the intersection of what they are good at, what the world needs, what they love, and what they can be paid for to live out their ikigai. VERDICT Beneficial for readers who find the concept of ikigai intriguing.

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