#2 IKIGAI - The japanese formula for success. | SUMMARY & REVIEW BY A Book Monk 📚🧘‍♂️

Everyone wants to be happy, but it seems like such an unobtainable goal. Should we focus on making money? Should we focus on pursuing our passions? Or should we just become a monk in the mountains. Luckily for us, the Japanese have already cracked the code. They have a formula for happiness called Iki guy.

( Commonly pronounced as IKIGAI)

You need to have a purpose for being here but this is easier said than done because there are four components that you need to check off in order to become iki guy and without all four you will never truly be happy....

Four components in short -

1.First component is that it needs to be something that you love weall have things that make us feel good things that make us stop thinking for short periods of time to just be present and aware of what's happening right now in front of us the more technical people will call this flow state but the majority of us call it love that's why so many of us enjoy the arts drawing,dancing,singing,reading because it takes us into the state of bliss where we feel good and are focused on the task in front of us that's why some of us fall in love with one another because being with that person allows us to forget about all the other problems in our lives at least momentarily.

2.The second component for iki guy is a little bit more tricky it needs to be something that the world needs see we've been hardwired to feel good when we know that we're needed in a community back in the day when we were hunters and gatherers this was easy everyone played an important part the cook was just as important as the hunter the Builder was just as important as the caretaker backthen whenever you put in work you could see the immediate positive effects your efforts had on others but this isn't the case nowadays most of us work in officesbeing given small roles in a massive company where even if we work our butts off it's hard to see the positive effects our work has on the rest of the world it feels like our work isn't really helping anyone it feels like ifwe quit our job one day no one would even care because to be honest nothing would change you need to find something that the world something that you can do that will create a visible positive effect on those around you.

3. Third component for Iggy guy is that it needs to be something that you can get paid well for now I know I know right out the gatesome of you are automatically going to say something like you don't need money in order to be happy but let's be real money is what puts a roof over your head food in your mouth and clothes on your body without enough of it you're gonna spend the majority of your time stressed out ofyour mind wondering how you're going to get by and it's not enough to just be making some money you need to be getting paid well enough to live a comfortable life.

4. The fourth and final component you need to have in order to achieve a key guy isthat it needs to be something that you're good at now this doesn't mean that you need to be born with talent this actually means that you're able toput in the time and effort in order to get better at the skill let's say for example- you want to become a motivational speaker when you first getstarted you're terrible you have stage fright you should stand or a lot youforget what you're supposed to say but over time as you practice more and more you start to overcome these obstacles. In short u have to develop more n more skills.

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