IKIGAI

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According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai, a reason for existing. Some have found it and are aware of their ikigai, others have it inside, but are still looking for it. This is one of the secrets to a long, young and happy life like the one led by the inhabitants of Okinawa, the longest-living island in the world. The project for this book arose by uniting the experience in Japanese culture of Héctor García (author of A Geek in Japan), who has lived in Japan for twelve years, with the writing art of Francesc Miralles (author of dozens of books and novels and a specialist in psychology). To write the work, the two authors were received by the mayor of Ogimi (Okinawa), a town in northern Japan with the highest longevity rate in the world, and had access to interview more than a hundred of its inhabitants. In this new edition of this already classic of personal growth, the authors give us a prologue in which they reflect on all the experiences they have had since the publication of the first edition ...