What Makes Life Worth Living?
What makes life worth living? It is ikigai, one’s deepest sense of social commitment, most often to one’s dream, family, work, or religious belief.
What makes life worth living? It is ikigai, one’s deepest sense of social commitment, most often to one’s dream, family, work, or religious belief.
To all you life coaches business coaches, HR managers, wantrepreneurs, and bloggers sharing the framework of doing something that you love, that you are good at, that the world needs, and that you can be paid for or rewarded for as ikigai, STOP IT! It is not the Japanese concept of ikigai.
And I think the process of not letting our attention get trapped into only looking at problems and potential problems and suffering the process of opening up to the fact that there also are things that are working in there are people who are supporting us in this kind of way is one of the things that keeps us mentally healthy.
You find purpose by defining who you want to become – the most honest version of yourself. Who you want to become will ultimately dictate what you will do.
Mieko Kamiya could be called the Mother of Ikigai Psychology. She was one of the first researchers to extensively study ikigai. Her seminal book, Ikigai-ni-Tsuite (What Makes Our Life Worth Living) is still considered standard by current-day Japanese researchers, professors, and psychologists, despite it being published in 1966. Unfortunately, her book is yet to be translated into English. Even more unfortunate is that Kamiya died at the ripe young age of 65 in 1979.
It’s Nick Kemp here from IkigaiTribe.com with another episode of The Ikigai Podcast, and today I am speaking with Paul Akers, the founder and president of FastCap, a product development company specializing in woodworking tools and hardware for professional builders.
How The Andrés Zuzunaga Venn Diagram Become Ikigai
In this episode of the Ikigai Podcast, I have a conversation with the creator of the Ikigai Venn Diagram, Marc Winn.
Can leisure activities be a source of ikigai?Leisure activities are the things that we do for fun or enjoyment, and it turns out that these activities can also be good contributors to acquiring ikigai. How can this be possible?In this episode of the Ikigai Podcast, Nick discusses with Shintaro Kono how people can find ikigai …
004 – Finding Ikigai in Leisure with Shintaro Kono Read More »
Because ikigai is a term that Japanese people grew up with, they don’t have a framework to describe it. Most are confused by the Ikigai Venn Diagram, which is so popular in the West and does not necessarily represent the Japanese understanding of the term. But what does ikigai really mean to the Japanese?In this …
003 – What Ikigai Means To The Japanese With Sachiaki Takamiya Read More »