Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)

“If, on the other hand, [the human animal] lacks objects of willing, because it is at once deprived of them again by too easy a satisfaction, a fearful emptiness and boredom comes over it; in other words, its being and its existence become an intolerable burden for it. Hence it swings like a pendulum to and fro between pain and boredom.” But the no

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Any of these ambitions might actually match your true purpose. If so, you’ll feel a powerful inward compulsion to follow that particular path. You’ll find the steps along the way fascinating and fulfilling, and as a result you’ll be good at them. But if you pursue any course of action solely because other people think it’s “purposeful,” prepare to

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