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    How to Ikigai: Lessons for Finding Happiness and Living Your Life's Purpose
    How to Ikigai: Lessons for Finding Happiness and Living Your Life's Purpose
    How to Ikigai: Lessons for Finding Happiness and Living Your Life's Purpose
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    How to Ikigai: Lessons for Finding Happiness and Living Your Life's Purpose

    Written by Tim Tamashiro

    Narrated by Tim Tamashiro

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    Ancient, time-tested wisdom: Okinawa, Japan, is a tiny, tiny island south of the Japanese mainland where people live their life's purpose every day. How is it possible for so many to live each day in such meaningful ways? The Okinawan concept of Ikigai.

    Magical reality come to life: David Michiels stuttered severely well into his adulthood. In clinical terms, his stutter was difficult to treat. But David started to work in a liquor store. Before long, his focus turned to one specific section of the sales floor: the scotch section. As he spent more of his days learning about scotch, he began to share his knowledge with customers. Eventually, David noticed that his stutter vanished when he talked to anyone about scotch. Over time, David's passion led to a new life. Today, he is a renowned whiskey expert, traveling the world tasting and purchasing whiskey on behalf of his employer. He feels his life is meaningful because of ikigai.

    A humble look at happiness: Bringing together an exploration of joy not unlike that of The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a look inward reminiscent of The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer, and deep truths like those explored by Singer in The Surrender Experiment, How to Ikigai describes the concept of Ikigai with clarity and meaning.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 24, 2019
    ISBN9781515947745
    Author

    Tim Tamashiro

    Tim Tamashiro is an explorer, jazz singer, storyteller and former CBC Radio host. His ikigai is "to delight people so that we can share meaningful moments together". His life's experiences include work as a record rep. for MCA Records, performing for Queen Elizabeth II and sailing aboard an icebreaker in Canada's Northwest Passage. Tim is scheduled to deliver his first TEDx talk titled "Ikigai: a practice more powerful than karate" later in 2018 in Calgary.

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    • 5/5
      Valuable and meaningful topic, and the author’s narration was certainly among the best I’ve ever heard — and I consume more than 50 books a year! :)

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is a delightful and uplifting book. I can't wait to begin applying Ikigai in my life!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Ikigai today. Come back tomorrow.
      The concepts described are something that you know inside but you need someone to tell it out loud to you so that you can get a kick start. It’s a great read and a good starting point for people who are starting to get to know themselves.
    • 4/5
      It was an easy listen with some interesting points inspired me to purchase one of the suggested books that he mentions.
    • 5/5
      I was amazed after listening this book. Surely it was a gift :-)
    • 5/5
      Totally recommend it. Love this book and very useful too!