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Those who change "now" are the "doers"
Those who change "one day" are the "talkers"
Today we will learn from Takamasa Ikeda's mail magazine 〜♪
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■"2 questions" that will promise you success in 2021
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What became clear in the Harvard study is that
"People don't become happy because they succeed.
They succeed because they feel happiness"
People who are excited and feel passionate for life succeed more often than
those who try to succeed with irritation and stress.
So, does that mean anything is fine as long as you are happy?
Not necessarily so.
There are two types of "happiness"
Depending on the type of "happiness"
you will fail or succeed.
●1st type of happiness "Pleasure (self satisfaction)"
This first type is
very short-lived and is a feeling that disappears right away.
These are the pleasures felt through SNS, movies, games, mangas, gambling, alcohol, staying up late, chilling out etc..
It's fun at that time, but when you look back, you feel like it might have been a waste of time.
In that moment, the brain is hijacked by pleasure so its fun, but looking back, it can sometimes make you feel down.
Simply put, these are "pleasurable on the short term"
but if it continues for too long you will reach an undesirable future.
●2nd type of happiness is a sense of fulfillment (purpose)
The other is "a sense of fulfillment"
It is an emotion that is fulfilled through taking part in something important and putting your whole heart into it.
・Climbing a difficult mountain
・Completing a difficult musical play
・Taking up the challenge to reach a high goal as a team
・Reforming your own habits
It is the feeling that you feel when you feel you have "done something meaningful"
You feel
That you are taking part in something that has a purpose
That you are doing something important,
and that it is meaningful
and you feel a deep joy and fulfillment that surpasses any struggles.
※Often times, the harder it is, the deeper fulfillment one feels. So people tend to raise the bar of the challenge.
Simply put, "its hard on the short-term"
but the more you can take part, the higher the joy and sense of fulfillment
and you gain a long-term happiness that you "want to continue" with.
Specialists call those who have enter this state, as Thriving.
"A state of being passionately invested in something important"
Going back to the study I stated in the beginning
"People do not become happy because they succeed.
They succeed become they feel happiness"
This study result shows that those who have entered this invested state of "thriving"
are those who are successful.
Are there people around you who are invested in something important?
Don't you feel that the future of that person is bright?
Everything till now is something that can be explained in a YouTube Video.
But those who area reading this mail magazine are those who want to go deeper, so let me raise the bar another level.
"Which of the two happinesses do you feel more often?"
"I feel like I am passionate but is this pleasure or fulfillment?"
Don't worry, research studying this has recently been made available.
Please ask yourself these two questions.
Q１：Do you feel happiness in what you are doing now?
Q２： Will that activity make you happy tomorrow too?
These are very simple questions but please be sure to ask them.
If you "don't feel happiness in what you are doing now"
then you won't fall into the happy category to begin with.
You may be sacrificing yourself.
The point is about activities that
"make you feel happy now" but "it wont make you happy tomorrow"
These are the "pleasures"
Eating or drinking too much, staying up overnight, will not make "the you of tomorrow happy" right?
What is important is the "sense of fulfillment"
That what you are doing "makes you happy now" and "will make the you of tomorrow happy too"
If you act on mere impulse, you will flow towards "pleasure"
So first list up what you want to do and choose what will "make the you of tomorrow happy too"
The more unclear where we are headed becomes,
people tend to gravitate towards "pleasure"
For 2021, let us consciously head towards "fulfillment"
Let us create a wonderful 2021 together.
I hope there are hints for you in this message.
Takamasa Ikeda
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Link to Takumi Yamazaki’s
ENGLISH Book “SHIFT”
