Awakening Your Ikigai: How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day

 

Shirley J.                 Adult Non-Fiction                        Self-Help, Creating Joy in One's Life    

Awakening Your Ikigai: How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day by Ken Mogi          224 pages

I really wanted to like this book but it tends to get a little lofty at times and many times I lost interest in it.   Which is not to say there aren't some things to be learned here, but, it is having to trudge through the mud of prose that weighs you down and doesn't teach anything that put me off.   My take away from this book is give yourself a happy reason to get up every morning, whether it is you love what you are going to be doing that day or you have a tasty breakfast to look forward to.  Give yourself a reason.   The examples of other folks' joy are teaching moments but there is a gap of, "meh" from time to time while reading that slows the process and mentally makes you want to put this book down.   I can't recommend this one since I found it hard to keep reading at times.   So, while anyone interested from middle school on up could read it, there are other such books that are more interesting.