The book is a breezy read about identifying our Ikigai and finding meaning to our life, it's the happiness of always being busy. The book talks about people who live longer, especially Japanese, because of their habit of eating healthy, being active and keeping themselves busy and never retiring. The people who have found their Ikigai or purpose are passionate about everything they do, even every day chores will be performed with a passion for life, do read this book for a long and happy life, posted few meaningful excerpts from the book, so have you found your IKIGAI

Fall seven times, rise eight

A complementary Japanese concept is that of ichi-go-ichi-e, which could be translated as "This moment exists only now and won't come again."

Psychology of Optimal Experience, flow is "The state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it."

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.