Ikigai - Guia Prático

by Héctor García, Francesc Miralles

SINOPSE IKIGAI é a filosofia japonesa que está a revolucionar o mundo. Conhece a sua verdadeira razão de viver? Está a colocar em prática o seu IKIGAI? Depois de revelarem os segredos dos centenários japoneses para uma vida longa e feliz no livro anterior, Ikigai, Viva Bem até aos Cem (um sucesso internacional publicado em 32 países), Héctor García e Francesc Miralles ensina-o neste guia a tirar o máximo proveito do seu propósito de vida de forma a viver mais e melhor. Aceite o convite dos autores e viaje no comboio Shinkansen pelo seu passado, presente e futuro. Ao percorrer as 35 emblemáticas estações, com a ajuda dos exercícios, técnicas e práticas sugeridos, traçará o seu caminho interior de felicidade e bem-estar. Quando chegar ao destino, será uma pessoa completamente diferente. Desfrute intensamente desta viagem! CRÍTICAS DE IMPRENSA «Se o hygge era a arte de não fazer nada, o ikigai é a arte de fazer algo e fazê-lo com a máxima atenção e alegria.» The New York Post

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Philosophy, Personal Development, Psychology, Japan, Japanese Literature

Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

About the author

I'm the author of several Japanese culture books: The Magic of Japan, Ikigai the Japanese Secret for a Long and Happy Life, The Book of Ichigo Ichie, Shinrinyoku, The Ikigai Journey and A Geek in Japan.

I LOVE reading and writing.

Autor de los libros sobre cultura japonesa: La Magia de Japón, Ikigai, Ichigo Ichie, Shinrinyoku, Un Geek en Japón.

http://amazon.com/author/hectorgarcia

Reviews

[Neha Shehrawat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay! No wonder it was too overwhelming for me. It isn't a book to read in one go, as it requires you to sit back and think about so many things. It involves many activities that might help people in many ways. No doubt, both the authors have outdone themselves but in many places, they have also contradicted themselves. Like how when they asked you to go on a digital diet i.e. trying to stay away from any and everything that has a digital screen and on the other hand they also asks you to create notes on your cell phone at some point. Further, from the very starting, they are trying to find an ikigai which in my opinion was a SINGLE ENTITY but a combination of what we love to do, what we can get paid for, what we are good at, and what the world's need. I got to know in the very end chapter of the novel that I was completely wrong. It was indeed 4 different aspects with different entities that are to be entered to in our everyday life.

Moreover, it is not like everything was wrong with the book. There were many concepts like lucid dreaming, lateral thinking, emulating, ganbarimasu, and one of my favorite ‘Pareto- the 80/20 rule’ that made me rethink so many aspects of my own life. All in all, it was a good read except for the end where I got confused due to the lack of understanding of the central element, which is, IKIGAI.

[The Librarian · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really wanted to like this book. I was looking forward to the fulfillment of the subtitle promise: a practical guide to finding happiness and purpose the Japanese way. Keywords “the Japanese way”.
I was expecting to learn how the Japanese find their ikigai, or reason for living, and apply that to my life. Oh translations!

What I found instead was a compendium of every coaching book in the West for making a living with your passion (one of the authors used to be a translator of self-help books). That is, if you know what your passion is. If you don’t know, then, go search into what made you happy in your childhood and do the proposed exercises, which you will find in every other book on the subject. Nothing original.

The key to this book was in the introduction when readers asked them “How can I realize my dream?”, so they set up to compile every coaching cliché to answer that question (“get out of your comfort zone!” “learn time management!”, “do the 80/20 rule!” “don’t multitask!”, “put away your phone!”) with Japanese branding. Every section is preceded by a story about Japan’s culture, but the rest of the content is what you would find in a basic Google search.

Maybe, for someone who has never read a “follow your passion” book, this is a good entry point. That seems to be the audience for this work, and also fans of the authors who turned their books into best sellers.

If I had read the original in Spanish, I would have found the title is actually less misleading. It translates to “The Ikigai Method: Awaken your real passion and achieve your life purpose” and I wouldn't have picked the book in the first place, because that IS a coaching book on following your passion.

[Avani ✨ · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Ikigai Journey by Hector Garcia & Francesc Miralles, the duo comes with another addition to their Japanese Secret journey of finding one's Ikigai.

This book is a practical guide to finding happiness and purpose of your life, the Japanese way. So the book does hold some activities that needs to be done as you read the theory for the same.

The book takes you through the future, present and past. We also get to see author's jounrey through Japan and what all they found and learned on their way.

I genuinely felt that few of the techniques were new or maybe were really the Japanese way as the title suggests. But a lot of others were also meant from the same old European or American way, what other self help books tells us.

One take away which I would like to take from this is the Senpai-Kohai relationship which the authors have talked about. Rest all I am yet reading and absorbing the information at my own pace.

[salivadetigre · Rating 2 out of 5]

he caído en los libros de autoayuda porque me ayudan en el proceso de autoconvicción de que estoy siendo productiva -en el sentido más pérfidamente capitalista-, no me hacen cuestionarme absolutamente nada y son facilísimo de leer !!

además son una trampa estupenda para poder decir a final de año que me he leído los cuarenta libros que tengo en el goodreads challenge, todo es un win-win

(no he descubierto mi verdadera pasión, a lo mejor tendría que salir más a la calle)

[Dewi · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love the entire concept of Ikigai, but I disliked the way this book was written.
The whole format of it felt way too short, even though I understand that it was meant to be like that in a way. Really enjoyed reading about all the different cultures and the lifestyles of people who pursue Ikigai or other forms of life fulfilment, but wished they would dive deeper and longer into that, instead of having very black and white opinions on how you should structure your life.

[Радост · Rating 2 out of 5]

Лошото на тоя жанр e, че в един момент става банален и се повтаря.

[Megan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I eagerly bought this little book after loving their first pale blue bound Ikigai book. It is jam packed full of collected wisdom from many writers across the world as well as delving into a lot of Japanese philosophy. It could have been a fabulous and inspiring book.

However, there are three fatal flaws that mean I must give this two stars:

1. It doesn't contain anything that would be recognised as referencing. No bibliography, no footnotes and the barest of in-line referencing that wouldn't pass a junior high school assignment. Horribly the authors borrow photographs and graphics and assign them not to their owners but to a generalised creative commons licence. This is a non-fiction book that owes its heritage to the work of many great thinkers and researchers.

2. It is full of generalisations and sweeping statements. Critical thinkers will recoil in horror at sentence starts like "many studies say.." followed by unsubstantiated and sometimes sensationalist tropes that have been shown to be untrue or at least debated. In a couple of places it verges on racist or at least colonial when it lauds the foresight and commitment of Christopher Columbus in "discovering" the new world.

3. For a book that is full of models used by coaches it is overly judgemental, full of "you should" statements and assumptions about how the reader lives their life. This is a book written from one perspective of the world offering the authors' perspectives, no more. The world of coaching is one where we meet the client "where they are" not where WE want them to be.

This could have been brilliant if executed well. There were moments in this book that gave me pause, and got me to think about my life. I have read almost every primary source they refer to so for me this book was a reminder of great thinking. However, other readers unfamiliar with the primary sources don't have a bibliography or reading guide to assist them to critically consider if the information is for them.

Disappointingly I think many people will love the sugar hit this book gives without knowing if it is the right thing for them.

[Denisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

o carte bine structurată, dar în care am regăsit multe idei pe care le-am mai întâlnit și în alte cărți de dezvoltare personală. Mi s-a părut foarte bună ideea de a lăsa spații libere în carte, unde să completezi "exercițiile" lăsate de autori, bazate pe ceea ce explică în acel capitol.

[Amit · Rating 5 out of 5]

5.0 ⭐

GENRE - SELF HELP / LIFE STYLE

Not often you will come across a challenging book like The Ikigai Journey. The book is based on 35 routes with practical exercises for finding happiness and purpose in your life.

About the Book :- To be honest this book has to be read very slow and one has to keep revising it after short intervals. The book takes time to sink in but every chapter has something to offer to you which one can put to use in their personal life depending on which chapter of this book they can relate to and want the changes to be implemented in their personal life. The Authors have explained with stories and examples in each chapter drawing attention to various aspects of life friendship, comfort zone, dreams, mentor, kindness, patience, happiness, so on and so forth.I couldn't put it down once started reading it and this book will be one of those that I will keep coming back to and explore something different next time around.

A must read !!!
Than you 🙂🙏❤️

[Kokelector · Rating 3 out of 5]

Segundo libro que leo sobre este método: Ikigai. Una forma de organización y de encontrar el método que permite organizar y encontrar el objetivo de tu vida: que se define en estar en paz y tranquilidad contigo mismo y misma. Es un libro rápido de leer y que acompaña con consejos prácticos de la vida japonesa para intentar ordenar y poner objetivos claros dentro de tu vida y desarrollo. Si andas algo perdida o perdida no es una mala lectura, que se puede leer como narración o siguiendo los ejercicios para que se transforme en una lectura de autoayuda. Pasado, presente y futuro al parangón de la vida moderna japonesa.

Aquí lo encuentras.

[Alok Agarwal · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have not read any of the other Ikigai books. Hence I would not be able to comment on repeatitions in the book. This book if read in right earnest can become a life changer. It has many techniques which can help you find your ikigai. I am surely adopting a few of those from today itself. I am going to keep this book next to my work station so that I can refer to it whenever I think I am faltering.

The techniques are simple with examples and relatable. It is not just another self help book but there is so much practicality and uniqueness to it. Also,it is very relatable.

What are you waiting for ? Read it and find your own IKIGAI.

[Andrian Georgiev · Rating 4 out of 5]

Базирана действително на японския опит е поредната книга, която разказва за техники за самоусъвършенстване. Минусът на такива книги е, че те няма да свършат работата вместо нас, но ако стъпим дори и един сантиметър встрани от зоната си на комфорт, запомним само една техника и я приложим, значи си е заслужавало да се отдели време на тази книга. Така и в тази - никога не спирай да работиш - дали работа, дали развиване на нещо ново. Никога, никога.

[Irina Constantin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mai mult mi-a plăcut primul volum din serie. Fiecare capitol reprezintă o tehnică sau un exercițiu de dezvoltare personală, dar este descris mult prea superficial.

Chiar și așa, mi-am făcut o listă de câteva tehnici pe care să le încerc mai în detaliu.

[Brian Nwokedi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overview
This book bills itself as a journey through cognitive, psychological, and behavioral frameworks that will “help you discover your Ikigai.” Using the bullet train as the instrument to tell their story, the authors take the readers through stops in three popular Japanese cities:

1. Tokyo - (A journey to the future) represents the Shinkansen effect and other techniques for creating great personal projects and developing the inner discipline to see them through
2. Kyoto - (A journey through our past) represents exercises for rediscovering where we come from and using our personal experiences as a springboard
3. Ise - (A journey through our present) represents bringing our past and future together in the eternal present of our lives

I love the fact that the authors focus on the “Shinkansen Effect” and use the bullet train as the focal muse to drive their points forward. The problem is that each stop along the train (actual chapters in the book) are psych concepts that have nothing to do with deepening the concept of Ikigai. There is nothing wrong with borrowing from other authors and experts who have come before you. The problem for me though is that this book is a hodgepodge of psychological and behavioral frameworks that the authors have pulled together “in their pursuit” to describe Ikigai.


Why This Book Falls A Bit Short
Look at the following diagram:




When you investigate the following diagram you get a pretty good sense of what your Ikigai is: The intersection of the answer to the following four questions:
1. What I can be PAID FOR
2. What the world NEEDS
3. What I LOVE
4. What I am GOOD AT

After going through the 35 stations (chapters) within this book, it feels more like a goal-setting exercise than a book about deepening/finding the answers to the four aforementioned questions. To give a concrete example, station #26 is entitled “Flow by drawing the Enso circle.”

Serious question here… How is drawing an Enso circle going to help me? How is it going to help me gain “inner harmony?” How is serendipity part of a strategy to find one’s Ikigai? But most importantly, how does it help me answer one of the four questions above?

This is my slight angst with this book. It throws together a lot of different Japanese customers and psychological hacks in an attempt to be a guide toward answering the four questions that drive you forward in your search for your Ikigai. But with a critical lens, one can see that it is in fact just a collection of good psych frameworks.

What I Will Do Differently As A Result of Reading This Book?
• Re-introduce a system (quarterly check-ins in EOS speak) to review employees’ objectives and tasks on a quarterly basis

• Simplify all goals because simple goals lead to great achievements

• Remember mood contagion – at the end of the day, outbursts of negativity end up poisoning everyone

• If you don’t do this yet, you should realize that other people are your mirror and so the help and recognition you give them is something you also give to yourself

• I will add a daily exercise to write some sentences about my life, especially the emotions within it.

• For example, answering simple questions like:
1. What have I learned after this bad experience?
2. What changes do I need to carry out in my life for other kinds of things to happen to me?

• I will also embrace my “inner poet” and write more haiku about my life

• I used to joke that “impatience is my virtue” but after reading this book I realize that patience with persistence is a much “easier way” to live

• I will be patient and allow things to happen in their own good time, without forcing them

• Run everything I say and do through the filter of the three monkeys
1. Filter 1 – is what you are saying or doing TRUE
2. Filter 2 – is what you are saying or doing KIND
3. Filter 3 – is what you are saying or doing NECESSARY
4. If what you want to say is neither truthful, kind, nor necessary, it would be best to not say it
5. According to Socrates’s three filters, before telling someone anything that might have an emotional effect, we have to check how TRUTHFUL, KIND, and NECESSARY it is

Final Thoughts
This is basically a book about a collection of self-improvement methods framed as a “journey towards a deeper understanding of Ikigai.” This is a lesser version of Designing Your Life.

Like most self-improvement books there are some helpful frameworks within that I will employ in my day-to-day life. But in aggregate, this book fails to deliver real tangible value in my opinion other than being a repository for a mix of psych/behavioral frameworks.

The authors never really develop a deeper understanding of what Ikigai is and how to find or develop your own. Often within the chapters of this book, they make comments like “One thing that everyone with a clearly defined Ikigai has in common …” or “This is why it is so important to find and pursue our Ikigai…” but rarely clearly define what Ikigai is or how you find it.

Easy to Read: (5/5) 100%
Deep Content: (1/5) 20%
Overall Rating: (3/5) 60%

Link to My Raw Notes

[kedy]

hepsi birbirinin aynı self help kitaplarından biri daha. sadece buna dikkat çeksin diye biraz japon bilgeliği serpiştirilmiş.

[Amanda Kan · Rating 2 out of 5]

It felt like a book about a Japanese way of life written by a westerner. No hard feelings, just did not feel authentic. I really wanted to like this book since I do like the way of Ikigai but unfortunately this was not the way.

[Louise VdB · Rating 2 out of 5]

Même si le ton est très positif, qu’il est rempli de bons conseils et les écrivains me sont sympathiques en lisant ce livre, il n’aide pas à trouver son Ikigai. Je vous conseille sans hésitation celui de Bettina Lemke (Le Livre de l’Ikigai - le secret du bonheur), qui m’a REELLEMENT aidée à trouver mon Ikigai, qui a débloqué énormément de sujets pour moi. Celui-ci est sympathique, mais ne remplit pas l’objectif proposé

[Ana Todorova · Rating 5 out of 5]

Втората книга на Ектор Гарсия и Франсеск Миралес по темата за икигая ми допадна още повече и от първата. Докато в първата книга фокусът е по-скоро върху принципите на живот на столетниците от Окинава, в тази пътешествието из 35-те японски гари е с насока практически инструменти и подходи за себепознание и развитие в търсене на повече смисъл и удовлетворение в живота. Водих си подробни бележки, защото някои от тези 35 инструмента ми се сториха доста вдъхновяващи и забавни и ще ги тествам.

[Aydın Tezcan · Rating 4 out of 5]

İlk kitapları Ikigai' den sonra bu kitabı okumak da hoşuma gitti. Hayattaki amacınızı (ikigainizi) bulma yolunda farkı yöntemler öneriyor.
Hepsi uygulanabilir mi, çok emin değilim. Yine de bu kitap sayesinde Japon kültürünün ne kadar derinlikli olduğunu bir kez daha hissettim. Japon felsefeleri ile ilgili daha çok şey okumak gerektiğini düşünüyorum.
Tavsiye edebileceğim kitaplardan.

[Dilyana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Много приятна книжка, която според мен е хубаво да се чете бавно. По 2 листа на ден, колкото да се замислиш над някоя тема. Няма смисъл да се прочете много бързо, не мисля , че ще запомните нещо от нея.

[Anuradha Goyal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Old wine in a new bottle but even then thoroughly enjoyed the book. A repetition of Things we already know but sometimes one needs to read them again and again for them to sink in. Loved the writing style too :)

[Zuhal Aksulu · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Hayattaki amacınızın ne olduğunu hala bilmiyorsanız, ne mutlu size ki artık bir amacınız var: Bu amacın ne olduğunu bulmak!" (S. 54)

[Ангел · Rating 5 out of 5]

Където и да се намираш, каквото и да постигнеш, винаги помни, че всичко предстои и всичко е в твоите ръце.

[İrem Yiğin Özyurt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Maalesef kliselerden olusan bir kitap :/

[Petya Uzunova · Rating 5 out of 5]

Да изживееш своя Икигай или приключението, в което откриваш и създаваш себе си.
Тази книга е едно увлекателно четиво, в което се обобщават много от психологическите модели, погледнати от гледната точка на японската култура (а тя е просто НЕВЕРОЯТНА). Възхитена съм от термините и историята на тази нация, както и от техния начин на живот и култура, описан в книгата. Освен с информация, авторите ни предоставят и практически примери, които да ни улеснят към откриване на нашия "икигай" и преминаването на 35-те гари. След това пътуване всеки един от нас несъмнено би осъзнал, че "Животът е твърде кратък, за да стоиш изгубен в някаква пустиня."

[Seviii · Rating 3 out of 5]

^^Потърси нещо, намери друго и осъзнай, че намереното е по-добро за теб от това, което си мислил, че търсиш.^^

Ако прочетете само първата книга, ще ви е достатъчно. В тази са написани някакви клиширани съвети, които ги имаше и в първата книга. На мен лично първата ми хареса повече от тази, просто защото тази е твърде обикновена и съдържанието й е еднакво с много други книги за личностно развитие.

[Simon Govers · Rating 4 out of 5]

De prachtige inhoud zou gestructureerder en beter onderbouwd gegeven kunnen worden. Veel cherry picking van pseudo-wijsheid tussendoor. Jammer, want de wetenschap achter de blue zones is werkelijk verbluffend en zeer inspirerend!

[Nique 💫 chroniqled ✨ · Rating 5 out of 5]

i listened to the audiobook of this, and this just changed my life. for real. i need a physical book to annotate and journal with now. 🥹🥹🥹

[MerakiMe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great way to start a year. Indeed purposeful and promising start.

[Rohan Jora · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Ikigai Journey by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles is the sequel to the bestselling book Ikigai. Their first book left me with ambiguousness, as it lacked practical implementations of ikigai. Fortunately, this book is a practical guide to finding, pursuing, and living your ikigai.

This book provides a door for delving into the Japanese philosophy of living a simple and sophisticated life rich in your ikigai.

This is a persuasively written book, with an impressive way of articulating ideas in form of a journey through the past, present, and future. It is, however, a captivating guide with numerous activities for readers.

The Ikigai Journey shares 35 different stations with practical exercises for reaching our chosen destination, all the while nurturing and bringing out the happiness that lies within us.

According to me, the most influential statement of this book: pursuing your passion and developing it to be shared with others is the greatest objective a human being can hope to achieve in the future.

Recommended to everyone that wants to transform their dream into reality and live a life worth remembering.