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

The doctrine calls upon us to remain humble in failure as well as in success. During a Hansei-kai, practitioners are not allowed to celebrate a “flawless victory.” There is no such thing. Instead, every action has room for improvement, no matter how perfectly it was executed. This mindset is exemplified in this stanza from Toyota’s Production System Guide: