What is a "good life" at a turning point?The sequel to the blockbuster book suggests a 100-year life theory | "Lifeshift 2" Review

"Lifeshift 2" Toyo Keizai Inc. Andrew Scott / Lynda Gratton / Author

At the end of the year, when I heard that Toyo Keizai would release a sequel to "Life Shift," I began to wonder when it would come out and when I could read it. At the end of the year, the competition books of each company will be flooded, but when it was decided that a sequel would come out, I decided that this was the only book I would introduce at the end of 2021. First and foremost, I was looking forward to the title. The original title was "The New Long Life", but it was a straight in the middle called "Life Shift 2". No other ad stands out as much as the name "Lifeshift", published in 400,000 copies. Toyo Keizai has many hard-core business books and many expensive books, but since it is a publishing company that is very good at assigning Japanese titles, I am looking forward to seeing the title as well as the binding like "SHOE DOG". Publisher. For example, Scott Galloway's "The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google" has become "the four GAFA The World Created by the Four Knights." It is also the godfather of "GAFA", a big tech company often used by business people. However, if you come on a stacked line instead of the original line like "GAFA" that produced an explosive hit, the sales of books will not reach the first work. By the way, when I lined up "Life Shift 2" at the store on the release date, it was picked up from the end of the lineup, and in a good way I was disappointed. How about the essential contents? Lifeshift depicts the collapse of a three-stage life model of education, work, and retirement through three generations of fictional characters, Jack, Jimmy, and Jane. In the following work, Hiroki and Madoka, a couple in their mid-20s who live in Kanazawa, Japan, Radika, a woman in her late 20s who works as a freelancer in Mumbai, Australia, a 30-year-old single mother Esther in London, and Texas, USA. Through fictional characters that seem to be everywhere, 40-year-old truck driver Tom living in the state, 55-year-old accountant Inn living in Sydney, Australia, and 71-year-old former engineer Clive living in Birmingham, England. It depicts the changes that will come first on a global scale. Similar to "Life Shift", this work also illustrates with evidence that the three-stage way of thinking that presupposes a life of 70 years is making our life, which has to live in the age of 100 years, in a difficult situation. .. The evolution of technology and the longevity of human beings have changed the turning point of life. However, our education, work, and life are not tied to it. From each life, we portray that the distortion is causing us to be in trouble all over the world at the same time. This book asks the reader the essential question of what a "good life" is. For example, the author introduces the words of Tibetan Buddhist Supreme Leader Dalai Lama XIV answering the question of what surprises humans. "People sacrifice health to make money, sacrifice money to regain health. Also, they are too worried about the future to enjoy the present. As a result, living the present also lives the future. And I can't do anything. And I live my life indiscriminately as if my life lasts forever, and I die without living in the true sense of the word. " , You can easily consume the day just by looking at the flowing information. What on earth do we need to live our lives in the truest sense without consuming our lives? What this book tells us is that if we look at life in 100 years, the road we are walking on will be cut off in 70 years. It is a must-read book to survive a "good life".

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Yoshiaki Misa Presides over the "Reading Room" Presides over the "Reading Room" that introduces books. As a bookstore clerk, we plan a book selection fair "Reading School" where authors, editors, bookstore clerk, and readers are involved. A reading guide was serialized in the magazine Sanga Japan, which was suspended in 2021. In charge of "The best book guide that changes your life" at the NHK Culture Center. I love books.