What Japan Has Taught Me About Life and Love
Matthew Hussey shares three lessons from Japan about doing fewer things with excellence, caring for shared spaces, and building a life you feel at home in.
The gist
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Doing fewer things brilliantly beats doing many things adequately, and Hussey is narrowing his own work portfolio based on this idea.
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Leaving shared spaces better than you found them builds self-respect and makes you more conscious of how you move through daily life.
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Investing real care into your home and workspace improves your emotional state and cushions you when things outside your control go wrong.
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Building confidence and strong friendships before or alongside a relationship reduces the devastation when that relationship ends.
Also mentioned
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Perfect Days
· "One of my favorite films is Perfect Days. It's about a man who cleans toilets in Tokyo. But the film treats..."
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