The Ikigai Journey. Francesc Miralles

       The Ikigai Adventure

      A Journey Through the Stations of Happiness

      A little over two years ago, the authors of this book completed a project that ended up going much further than we could ever have imagined.

      It all started in a Tokyo park where we discussed our shared wish to visit “the village of the centenarians,” a rural enclave in the north of Okinawa with the world’s longest life expectancy.

      We decided to journey to that extraordinary place and there we interviewed the eldest of its residents, who told us their secrets for living such a long, motivated and energetic life.

      The outcome of that study was the book Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, which focuses on one of the keys to eternal youth; having a “raison d’être” that can provide us with the happiness that comes from always being busy.

      To everybody’s surprise, it was the best seller on Spain’s most important online bookstore on the very day it was published. Two months later, it had been sold to thirty countries, including the US, Russia, China and even Japan itself.

      We got hundreds of messages and letters from readers enthusing about how Ikigai had inspired them, but

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