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

our attempt to discern if we are “winning or losing” is necessarily subjective and reliant upon input that is modulated by the perceived success of those around us. Our ancestors of the Pleistocene lived in small groups of 25 people. Calculating positions in the social hierarchy was easier for them. However, our attempt to compute the same metric is complicated by the nature of our current media-saturated world. We all carry devices in our pockets that allow us to instantly compare our own lives to the lives of everyone in town, and even to the lives of people who reside on the other side of the planet. Perhaps