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Finding Meaning and Purpose in Later Life

Money Talk

As blogger Fritz Gilbert wrote in his Retirement Manifesto blog , “that’s a shockingly high number and far too little is written about this problem.” a motive “to get up in the morning” or, as the Japanese call it, ikigai , loosely translated as an overriding passion that adds joy to life). coming as a surprise to many.”

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The studied carelessness of agile workplaces

Workplace Insight

We’ve borrowed ikigai from Japanese to describe how we might achieve better work-life balance. This first appeared on the What’s Up Blog. We went nuts briefly for the Scandinavian idea of hygge to describe a copy and laid-back approach to life that we felt we’d been lacking. This is the essence of sprezzatura.

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