What if I ask you what is purpose of your life. Many of you will not be able to answer this this question. We are so busy in our work and life which we are doing just to be in the race that we don’t think our purpose for life.
According to Japanese, evereyone has a ikigai - Purpopse of life for happy and long life. I am going to give summary of the book ikigai so that you can learn about things which I learnt in this whole book.
I. The art of staying young while growing old
Fill your belly to 80%. Don’t eat once you feel your stomach reached its 80 capacity.
II. Antiaging secrets: Little things that add up to long and happy life
Have a youthful mind and body that drives you towards healthy lifestyle
Be mindful of reducing stress.
A lot of sitting will age you. Walk, Walk and Walk
Sleep is key angiaging tool. Good sleep generates melatonin which helps our body in lot of good ways.
III. From Logotherapy to IKIGAI: How to live longer and better by finding your purpose
Search for the purpose of life. That is where logotheropy invented by Vicor Frankl helps.
Logotheropy does not see exentential frunstation as mental illness
Principles of Morita therapy:
Accept your feelings
Do what you should be doing
Discover your life’s purpose
Four phases of Morita therapy
Isoleation and rest.
Light occupational thrapy
Occupational thrapy
Return to social lif and real world
IV. Find FLow in everything: How to turn work and free time into spaces for growth
Strategies to acheive state of flow:
Choose a difficult task (but not too difficult)
Have a clear, concrete objective
Concentrate on single task. Don’t multitask.
Examples of flow in Japan:
Tukami - Sushi perfectionist
Ghibli - The japanese file artist
Microflow: Do mundance tasks which yiu enjoy
V. Masters of longevity: Words of wisdom from log living people of worls
This section talks about what japenes centerians have to say about there long lifw
Learn to relax
I have never eaten meat in my life
Mindset: EVerything is fine
If you keep your mind and body busy, you’ll be around for long time
VI. Lessons from japan’s Centenarian’s: Tradition and proverbs for happiness and longevity
Cultivate good habits, keep a vegetable garden and take care of it
Nurture your friendship everyday
Celebrate all the time
Live an unhurried life
Be proud of their tradition and local culture.
Passionate about everything you do regardless of how insignificant it might seem
Help others
Be always busy.
VII. The Ikigai Diet: What the world’s longest living people eat and drink
Eat wide variety of vegetables
They eat at least five servinf of fruits and vegetables everyday.
Grains are foundation of their diet.
They rarely eat suger
Hara hachi bu - Each 80% of what you need
Eat antiorident rich diet.
Secrets of Green tea
Control cholestrol
Lower BP
Protection against bacterial infection
VIII. Gentle Movements, Longer life: Excercise from east that promote health and logevity
Radio taiso
Yoga
Tai chi
Qigong
Shiastu
Breath better, live longer
IX. Resilience and Wabi-sabi: How to face life’s challenges without letting stress and worry age you
Buddhism
Stoicism
Goal should not be to eliminate all feelings and pleasure from our life but to eliminate negative emotions.
Goal of Buddhism and Stoicism: Control pleasure and desire
Practice what worst could happen. Its called negative vitualization to reflect n negative event without worrying about it.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to that matters.
Wabi-sabi and ichi-go-ichi-e: Thinking that every thing is imperfect and flawed. And enjoy the imperfection.
Antifragility
Fragile - Things that are weakened when harmed
Robust and resilient - Things that are able to withstand harm without weakening
Antifragile - things that get stronger when harmed
How to be more fragile
Create more options
Bet conservativly in certain areas and take small risks in others.
Get rid of things that make you fragile