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

If you don’t see any genuine value in the fruit of your labor (other than pleasing a parent or a pocketbook), then your mind may exist in a state of perpetual conflict. You will forever be struggling to get your lower brain to follow your orders. You’ll have to keep devising pretenses—little lies used to coax yourself into believing that a life of pointless penny-pinching is a life worth living.