Four questions to help choose your next direction When my friends see something online about Japan, they forward it to me. This is how heard about ‘ikigai.’ I lived in Japan, speak some Japanese, practiced a Japanese martial art, drink Japanese tea (and sake). If I believe what I read online, ‘ikigai’ is an important thing in Japan, and clever publishers, reading Marie Kondo’s sales figures [The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up], have brought it to our attention.

It turns out that breathing well, which is FREE, really matters to our health Breath a 2020 non-fiction best seller [New York Times, LA Times, WSJ]. It is easy to read science journalism that shows that breathing well — which is free — really makes a difference in our health…

Forbes* summarized an interesting study** about burnout that was done with 97 college students in Singapore. The article is unusually concrete about things organizations and individuals can do. They found that students who displayed five specific learnable types of resilience did better in resisting burnout and stress. …

Burnout is a word we throw around a lot. “I spent the entire weekend binge watching Game of Thrones episodes, I’m so burnt-out on that show!” It can be a handy term for “a bit too much” or “a bit too far” or a synonym for being profoundly tired. But…