What is your reason for getting up each morning?

Why are distraction and FOMO so dangerous to our well-being?

How is the media consciously sabotaging our efforts for success?

These and other highly relevant questions are addressed when David E. Marlow, the Ikigai Guy, joins The Rabbi and the Shrink.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidemarlow/

2:00 What is Ikigai?

Your reason for getting up in the morning

Living in the moment of doing what you are uniquely created to do

Doors open naturally when we are aligned with our true purpose

4:00 Is this different from living according to God’s will?

Living your essence in the best way you can

Disintegration is the opposite of integrity

Finding our balancing point between focus on our higher purpose and focus on our community

9:00 What is MOAI?

Connection to family, friends, and community

11:00 How David found his Ikigai

What came to him in a dream

Looking back, we see how seemingly disconnected events are connected by a common thread

The blessing of Providence and serendipity appear when we pay attention

20:00 What to do if you feel you’re wasting your life

The power of self-reflection and monotasking

Distraction and FOMO destroy productivity

27:00 More views, less news

Set priorities and eliminate noise

Don’t let the media manipulate you and steal your time

Feeling alive vs. true living

We uncover rather than discover our true selves

38:00 The word of the day:  hedonic adaptation

the return to our emotional default settings that follows experiential peaks and valleys

We conflate pleasure with happiness

It’s not moments of elation but the differentiation between states of being

Lottery winners are no happier than paraplegics

45:00 Start small to go big

Invest in yourself and believe that your essence is there waiting for you to uncover it

Begin working to define your purpose