"Can someone really retire, if he/she is passionate about what he does?"

<ul><li>MOAI - Make a get together community, meet and enjoy with your loved ones and friends regularly.</li><li>Central tenet of STOICISM is 'Knowing what we can control and what we can't'.</li><li>Learn about the impermanace of Humans and Things.</li><li>Take it slow in life, leave urgency behind.</li><li>Surround yourself with good friends.</li><li>Get in shape for your next birthday.</li><li>Smile- Have a cheerful attitude.</li><li>Reconnect with nature.</li><li>Give thanks to everyone from ancestors to nature to friends and family.</li><li>Live in the moment- Today is all you have.</li><li>Find and follow your IKIGAI.</li></ul>

Spiritual Things To Grab From The Book

I am not going to make the post complex as it is against the laws of IKIGAI itself, just kidding, but i am going to give you the most important points that i collected after reading the book. That will be presented according to their nature.

What You Get In The Next Few Posts?

<ul><li>Whatever you do, don't retire.</li><li>Train the Brain by doing new things everyday.</li><li>Slow the neuron aging process by - </li></ul><ol><li>Intellectual activity, </li><li>Curiosity, </li><li>Desire to learn, </li><li>Playing games, </li><li>Getting familiar with new situations/people.</li></ol><ul><li>Practice Mindfulness/Meditation.</li><li>Find reasons to LIVE - Because he who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.</li><li>And to get reasons to live, ask yourself, 'why i am not getting SUICIDE?'</li><li>Try to be in the moments of FLOW as much as you can.</li><li>Stop multitasking, focus on a single one.</li><li>Microflow- Enjoy mundane tasks.</li><li>Get instant vacations - getting there by meditation.</li></ul>

Mental Ideas 

<ul><li>Hara Hachi Bu- Fill your stomach 80% and stop eating.</li><li>Avoid Stress and anxiety as it affects everything from digestive system to our skin.</li><li>Be Physically active and take care of Sleep.</li><li>Keep your fingers busy till death, you can see 100 years.</li><li>Eat less with more servings.</li><li>Drink Green Tea regularly.</li><li>Breathe Better, Live Longer. e.g. breathe with the sound of Si as SIR with slow exhale for healthy lungs.</li></ul>

Physical Processes To Follow From IKIGAI

<ul><li>Break big tasks into parts and then ATTACK one by one.</li><li>Be resilient (be able to deal with setbacks).</li><li>Enjoy life's pleasures, but don't get enslaved by them.</li><li>We, human beings, are INSATIABLE, when we find our dream job/thing, after a while we are already hunting for a new one.</li><li>WABI SABI- Instead of searching for beauty in perfection, look for it in the things that are flawed or incomplete.</li><li>ICHI GO ICHI E- This moment exist only now and won't come again.</li><li>Be AntiFRAGILE- Being stronger when harmed.</li><li>Create Redundancies- Don't depend on single salary, try to make money from hobbies, new ideas, businesses.</li></ul>

Continued...

Ikigai is the action we take in pursuit of happiness. As Okinawan residents know, “In Okinawa being happy every day is ikigai.” Such happiness is the outcome of valuing purpose, flow, movement, meaning, health, and community.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • 1.5 MILLION+ COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE “Workers looking for more fulfilling positions should start by identifying their ikigai.” ―Business Insider “One of the unintended—yet positive—consequences of the [pandemic] is that it is forcing people to reevaluate their jobs, careers, and lives. Use this time wisely, find your personal ikigai, and live your best life.” ―Forbes Find your ikigai (pronounced ee-key-guy) to live longer and bring more meaning and joy to all your days. “Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.” —Japanese proverb According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai—where what you love, what you’re good at, what you can get paid for, and what the world needs all overlap—means that each day is infused with meaning. It’s the reason we get up in the morning. It’s also the reason many Japanese never really retire (in fact there’s no word in Japanese that means retire in the sense it does in English): They remain active and work at what they enjoy, because they’ve found a real purpose in life—the happiness of always being busy. In researching this book, the authors interviewed the residents of the Japanese village with the highest percentage of 100-year-olds—one of the world’s Blue Zones. Ikigai reveals the secrets to their longevity and happiness: how they eat, how they move, how they work, how they foster collaboration and community, and—their best-kept secret—how they find the ikigai that brings satisfaction to their lives. And it provides practical tools to help you discover your own ikigai. Because who doesn’t want to find happiness in every day?

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • 1.5 MILLION+ COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE “Workers looking for more fulfilling positions should start by identifying their ikigai.” ―Business Insider   “One of the unintended—yet positive—consequences of the [pandemic] is that it is forcing people to reevaluate their jobs, careers, and lives. Use this time wisely, find your personal ikigai, and live your best life.” ―Forbes Find your ikigai (pronounced ee-key-guy) to live longer and bring more meaning and joy to all your days. “Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.” —Japanese proverb   According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai—where what you love, what you’re good at, what you can get paid for, and what the world needs all overlap—means that each day is infused with meaning. It’s the reason we get up in the morning. It’s also the reason many Japanese never really retire (in fact there’s no word in Japanese that means retire in the sense it does in English): They remain active and work at what they enjoy, because they’ve found a real purpose in life—the happiness of always being busy. In researching this book, the authors interviewed the residents of the Japanese village with the highest percentage of 100-year-olds—one of the world’s Blue Zones. Ikigai reveals the secrets to their longevity and happiness: how they eat, how they move, how they work, how they foster collaboration and community, and—their best-kept secret—how they find the ikigai that brings satisfaction to their lives. And it provides practical tools to help you discover your own ikigai. Because who doesn’t want to find happiness in every day?

Hector Garcia was born in Spain in 1981 and has been living in Tokyo since 2004. During his spare time he writes aGeekinJapan.com, one of the most widely-read blogs in the world in Spanish and in English, as well as books about his experiences in Japan. He is the author of the bestsellers: Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life and A Geek in Japan. You can find more of Hector's musings at ageekinjapan.com

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Francesc Miralles Contijoch is a Catalan writer, essayist, translator, and musician.