IKIGAI - Book Summary

There is the place in the Japan Okinawa where the life expectancy of the people is 100years and people there never retire.

The persons there follow IKIGAI - " Purpose of Life." and are believed what makes them live long.

It is believed that if person in the world follow the IKIGAI "meaning to life" he will never work but live the life. No better example to share than the Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki who was so passionate about his work that he never took the off day from his work and worked even after his retirement. Making work as passion and reason to live.

Hayao Miyazaki working passionately in his Studio (Source of Image: https://www.film-rezensionen.de/2020/02/hayao-miyazaki/)

So there are normally four types of people normally doing what they love, what they are good at, what can you be paid for and what the world needs. Ikigai is the combination of these four things your passion, profession, vocation and mission.

Ten Rules to the Long Life
1. Stay active, don't retire.
2. Take it slow

3. Don't Fill your stomach

4. Surround yourself with good friends
5. Get in shape for your next birthday
6. Smile
7. Reconnect with Nature
8. Give thanks
9. Live in the moment
10 Follow your Ikigai.

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