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Book Review: The Little Book of Ikigai - The secret Japanese way to live a happy and long life by Ken Mogi

Summary by Terence Eden’s Blog
Can a Japanese mindset help you find fulfilment in life? Based on this book - the answer is "no". The Little Book of Ikigai is full of trite and unconvincing snippets of half-baked wisdom. It is stuffed with a slurry of low-grade Orientalism which I would have expected from a book written a hundred years ago. I honestly can't work out what the purpose of the book is. Part of it is travelogue (isn't Japan fascinating!) and part of it is history (…
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Book Review: The Little Book of Ikigai - The secret Japanese way to live a happy and long life by Ken Mogi

Can a Japanese mindset help you find fulfilment in life? Based on this book - the answer is "no". The Little Book of Ikigai is full of trite and unconvincing snippets of half-baked wisdom. It is stuffed with a slurry of low-grade Orientalism which I would have expected from a book written a hundred years ago. I honestly can't work out what the purpose of the book is. Part of it is travelogue (isn't Japan fascinating!) and part of it is history (…

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