Okay! No wonder it was too overwhelming for me. It isn't a book to read in one go, as it requires you to sit back and think about so many things. It involves many activities that might help people in many ways. No doubt, both the authors have outdone themselves but in many places, they have also contradicted themselves. Like how when they asked you to go on a digital diet i.e. trying to stay away from any and everything that has a digital screen and on the other hand they also asks you to create notes on your cell phone at some point. Further, from the very starting, they are trying to find an ikigai which in my opinion was a SINGLE ENTITY but a combination of what we love to do, what we can get paid for, what we are good at, and what the world's need. I got to know in the very end chapter of the novel that I was completely wrong. It was indeed 4 different aspects with different entities that are to be entered to in our everyday life.
Moreover, it is not like everything was wrong with the book. There were many concepts like lucid dreaming, lateral thinking, emulating, ganbarimasu, and one of my favorite ‘Pareto- the 80/20 rule’ that made me rethink so many aspects of my own life. All in all, it was a good read except for the end where I got confused due to the lack of understanding of the central element, which is, IKIGAI.