{"id":54268,"date":"2024-10-12T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T10:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womenfitness.net\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=54268"},"modified":"2024-10-12T16:14:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T10:44:11","slug":"ikigai-the-japanese-secret-to-a-long-and-happy-life","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.womenfitness.net\/shop\/product\/ikigai-the-japanese-secret-to-a-long-and-happy-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikigai: The Japanese Secr..."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">H\u00e9ctor Garc\u00eda and Francesc Miralles<\/span>\u00a0are the coauthors of\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">The Book of Ichigo Ichie\u00a0<\/span>and<span class=\"a-text-italic\">\u00a0The Four-Way Path<\/span>. H\u00e9ctor is a citizen of Japan, where he has lived for over a decade, and is the author of\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">A Geek in Japan,<\/span>\u00a0a #1 bestseller in Japan. Francesc is the author of a number of bestselling self-help and inspirational books and of the novel\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Love in Lowercase,<\/span>\u00a0which has been translated into twenty languages.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/aplus-media-library-service-media\/f7c03af5-2c35-4066-8c97-babfad056a1f.__CR0,0,970,600_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpg\" alt=\"Discover your own ikigai: What you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, etc\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"><strong><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large celwidget\" data-csa-c-id=\"yqpqap-o090fs-5fximn-a7els5\" data-cel-widget=\"productTitle\">Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u2022\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">2 MILLION+ COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorkers looking for more fulfilling positions should start by identifying their ikigai.\u201d \u2015<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">Business Insider<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the unintended\u2014yet positive\u2014consequences 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.\u201d \u2015<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">Forbes<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\"><\/p>\n<p>Find your\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">ikigai<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">(pronounced\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">ee-key-guy<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">) to live longer and bring more meaning and joy to all your days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">\u201cOnly\u00a0staying\u00a0active\u00a0will\u00a0make\u00a0you\u00a0want\u00a0to\u00a0live\u00a0a\u00a0hundred\u00a0years.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Japanese proverb<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the Japanese, everyone has an\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">ikigai<\/span>\u2014a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world\u2019s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">ikigai<\/span>\u2014where what you love, what you\u2019re good at, what you can get paid for, and what the world needs all overlap\u2014means that each day is infused with meaning. It\u2019s the reason we get up in the morning. It\u2019s also the reason many Japanese never really retire (in fact there\u2019s no word in Japanese that means\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">retire<\/span>\u00a0in the sense it does in English): They remain active and work at what they enjoy, because they\u2019ve found a real purpose in life\u2014the happiness of always being busy.<\/p>\n<p>In researching this book, the authors interviewed the residents of the Japanese village with the highest percentage of 100-year-olds\u2014one of the world\u2019s Blue Zones.\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Ikigai<\/span>\u00a0reveals the secrets to their longevity and happiness: how they eat, how they move, how they work, how they foster collaboration and community, and\u2014their best-kept secret\u2014how they find the\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">ikigai<\/span>\u00a0that brings satisfaction to their lives. And it provides practical tools to help you discover your own\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">ikigai.<\/span>\u00a0Because who doesn\u2019t want to find happiness in every day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":54269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_cat":[23],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life - WF Shopping<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life and Workers looking for more fulfilling positions should start by identifying their ikigai.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womenfitness.net\/shop\/product\/ikigai-the-japanese-secret-to-a-long-and-happy-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life - 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