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I understand that at one point in your life you decide to make trips to Japan and on these trips to Japan you found a philosophy of life that you've then made known all over the world, What is the "Ikigai"? Yes, the "Ikigai" is the Word we discovered in our fieldwork in Okinawa. In fact, Hector Garcia and I were looking things about food, about lifestyle, relationships, physical exercise, which was what we knew, a little bit, from Okinawan culture, which is already well known because it's a very powerful blue zone, number one, in fact. "Blue Zone" is the place where you live much more than in the rest of the world, because conditions are met. So, as you start interviewing centenaries We asked them: "What drives you every day to get out of bed?" "How can you have so much energy?", "Why do you feel so eager to live?" So, one of the words that came up most in these interviews was: "I have my Ikigai", and the "Ikigai", which consists of two Japanese terms that "iki" is life and "gai" is worth it, literally means: a worthwhile life. But when it has been translated into other languages, translates as reason for living, purpose of life, Mission. So the "Ikigai" is what gives meaning to our life, basically. There are people who are born practically with the "Ikigai"... and that from a very young time they will say to you, "I want to be a doctor," "I want to be a priest, " and they end up doing it, but the normal thing about the "Ikigai" is that it's a search process and a process, in which you can have more than one throughout your life. You can have an "Ikigai" until you're 18 And all of a sudden, you go into college, you light up, and you see that it's something else where the world needs you. So, "Ikigai" would basically be that passion, that talent that you discover within yourself, that is useful to the world and that can be the engine of your life. And in many people it ends up being even their profession. There's a very nice conference that was recorded on YouTube where there's a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Randy Pausch, who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, very few months to live. So, he decided to give a talk to all the students at your university to give them a message to serve them for the rest of their lives. The title of the conference was: "The importance of getting children's dreams back." So, I always say that when a person is lost in life, an adult, and he no longer knows what his "Ikigai" is, you don't know what you like anymore, what you want to do with your life, to go back in time and remember, as a child, what dreams I had, what I wanted to be when I was older. So, if we remember again how we were when we were kids there we can recover an essence that can give us back that spontaneous spirit that we may have lost now. And we're in time for change, which stresses us a lot. What can we do to handle this? Yes, it's true that our society is stressed on its own now, with the whole theme of what they call "multitasking." We try to do it all at the same time and that's the opposite of living the present, because you're in a lot of places, you're doing a lot of things at once, but no good, and you're not enjoying any because in the end the pleasure of doing things, flowing, depends on doing one thing very well done. Here the Japanese, again, have a very nice concept that can inspire us to get out of that fury to do so many things at the same time and to worry about the past and for the future, and for trying to do everything so well, which is: "Ichigo-Ichie". "Ichigo-Ichie" literally means "once, one chance." But the meaning of this sentence is: what we're living right now, it'll never happen again. It's realizing the unique character of every momento and that, therefore, it is worthwhile for us to celebrate this moment together. And this was introduced by one of the first tea masters, four centuries ago, who wrote a protocol of what a tea ceremony had to be like. One of the teachers said, "Treat your guests with Ichigo-Ichie," that is, as if you never saw them again in your life and the memory they took from you outside this one. So, I think the human being sometimes sins to think: "Well, today I haven't been fully with my mother because I was watching football, but there's going to be another chance," and sometimes there's no other chance. In fact, there's never an opportunity like this. So the "Ichigo-Ichie" is an invitation to enjoy of this person or these people who accompany us and this day as it is, something unique. There's a vignette of the Peanuts, that I like very much and that is very famous in the United States, you see Charlie Brown and Snoopy on a jetty in front of a lake and Charlie Brown says to Snoopy: "Snoopy, you're aware that we're going to die someday, aren't you?" "Yes," he says, "but not the rest of the days." That other day is the essence of the "Ichigo-Ichie". Knowing that we have this, that we have this moment,and that it's up to us to make it memorable.

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