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Ikigai
The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Okinawa, Japan
Ikigai (þöƒÒüìþö▓µûÉ) is the reason you wake up in the morning. It lives at the meeting point of what you love, what you are good at, what the world n…
Enter the worldFlow State
The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing — and being more yourself than ever, at the same time.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · Steven Kotler · Cal Newport · Modern synthesis
Flow is not productivity. It is not focus. It is the optimal state of human experience — total absorption in an activity that matches your skill to a …
Enter the worldWu Wei
Effortless action. The art of not-forcing.
Ancient China
Wu wei (woo-WAY) is acting in alignment with the way things move — water finding the cracks, the carpenter's knife finding the joint. Maximum effect, …
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