IKIGAI - My Take on Japanese's Secret to a Long and Happy Life
IKIGAI - My Take on Japanese's Secret to a Long and Happy Life This is my blog on my 2nd book of the 2nd week of 50 week 50 books - 100 blogs challenge that I have promised myself to engage in. Ikigai came across as a light read which talks in general about different things that could help us to live a meaningful life. It talks about finding your own meaning and purpose of life so that whatever we do is done with a sense of service which itself will nourish our souls. It has taken example of people, who happen to live a very long life, living in a small town of Okinawa in Japan. Some of them have even crossed 100 years of age. Their accounts try to give us the secret to the long and happy life. Let's see what all those secrets were: What is Ikigai - The definition of Ikigai as stated on web states that it means one's reason for being. It also states that Ikigai is the part where there is a convergence of one's passions, beliefs, values and vocation. The ones who foll...
