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

Mastery describes our inner urge to “be the best.” I.e., to become an expert in a particular skill. Purpose describes our desire to engage in endeavors that yield a great benefit of some sort (financial, spiritual, educational, etc…). Ideally, such endeavors will result in long-lasting and meaningful value to us, our family, our community, our planet, or perhaps to all of the above. Autonomy describes our desire to lead a self-directed life—one that affords us with the freedom to make choices for our daily actions, manifesting personal agency as we plot a personalized course for the journey of our life.