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The book IKIGAI concludes with 10 ten rules of ikigai that the author’s distilled from the wisdom of long-living residents of Ogami in Okinawa.

While pleasant to imagine, romanticising ikigai as merely a tranquil lifestyle restricted to one Japanese island prevents us from discovering what ikigai truly is.

One way we could feel hatarakigai-kan, the feeling of work worth doing, is by leaving the workplace in a better condition than we were in when we arrived. This is the goal of Bob Emiliani, an expert in the practice of kaizen – a Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement.

In Japanese, the verb for work is hataraku, written as 働く. The phrase hatarakigai, 働きがい, is used to indicate ‘work that is worth doing’ or ‘work motivation’. We can understand this word as work-related sources of ikigai. What is important to understand is that this often involves engaging in work that is both challenging and demanding; not always enjoyable, but ultimately satisfying.

As part of promoting his upcoming book, The Way of Nagomi, Ken Mogi touches on the western interpretation of ikigai, known by many as the Ikigai Venn Diagram.Although he finds the diagram as a helpful tool for giving people motivation, Ken states some reasons why this diagram is completely wrong and that people shouldn’t take

Then Venn diagram of purpose is a framework of doing something that you love, that you are good at, that the world needs, and that you can be paid for created by Spanish astrologer Andrés Zuzunaga.

In her book Ikigai ni Tsuite, Mieko Kamiya references Viktor Frankl on several occasions and mentions his Will To Meaning, a concept based on the premise that the primary motivational force of an individual is to find a meaning in life. Questioning the existence of meaning in life once was described as a symptom of neurosis