IKIGAI : THE JAPANESE SECRET to a LONG and HAPPY LIFE by HECTOR GARCIA & FRANCESC MIRALLES

IKIGAI : THE JAPANESE SECRET to a LONG and HAPPY LIFE by HECTOR GARCIA & FRANCESC MIRALLES

I started questioning 'what's it mean to live a happy life' a long time ago.. After doing some research I found out this book named 𝐈𝐊𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐈 : 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 and last night I started to read it.. Some parts of it effected me much.

“Life is not a problem to be solved. Just remember to have something that keeps you busy doing what you love while being surrounded by the people who love you.”

“There is a tension between what is good for someone and what they want to do. This is because people, especially older people, like to do things as they've always done them. The problem is that when the brain develops ingrained habits, it doesn't need to think anymore. Things get done very quickly and efficiently on automatic pilot, often in a very advantageous way. This creates a tendency to stick to routines, and the only way of breaking these is to confront the brain with new information.”

“There is no future, no past. There is only the present.”

“Getting back to Albert Einstein, “a happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.”

“The happiest people are not the ones who achieve the most. They are the ones who spend more time than others in a state of flow.”

QOTD: What makes you happy most?

For me the answer is spending time with my family and my friends, reading books, painting and designing anything, taking photos, drinking coffee, travelling and cooking !