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James Nestor
Nestor investigates how modern humans breathe badly — too fast, too much, through the mouth — and what fixing it does to health, sleep, and stress. Part history, part self-experiment, part science reporting, the book makes the case that how you breathe may matter as much as what you eat or how you exercise.
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Dan Buettner
A National Geographic explorer identifies five regions on Earth where people consistently reach a hundred with the cognition of a sixty-year-old — Sardinia, Okinawa, Nicoya, Ikaria, Loma Linda — and reverse-engineers nine practices common to all five. The 2005 NatGeo cover story put the Japanese word "ikigai" on Western newsstands for the first time. The book is the field-work argument that longevity is structural, not heroic — built into how people eat, move, belong, and answer the question of what to do today.
7 min guideSome of the books in this library are not just reading recommendations — they are sources for deep research articles. Where four library books cluster around one idea, you can read the meta-article that synthesises them.
Blue Zones · Ikigai · AI Era
Kamiya (1966), Buettner (2005), García & Miralles (2016), Mogi (2017) — the lineage of ikigai from psychiatric foundation to global bestseller, with an honest reckoning of the 2014 Western Venn. 12-minute read.
Some of these sources changed how I build, teach, and create. My books turn that reading into original frameworks, with the influences kept visible.
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