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)

by Anthony Raymond

Ally’s relative fortune should be clear to us all. As a young, beautiful, and well-paid Boston attorney, her life is much easier than 99% of all the humans who have walked the earth. And yet, we might note that her Ikigai is misaligned. She is repeatedly stricken down with weltschmerz—melancholy experienced when reality fails to conform to the idyllic visions of the mind.