A Freedom with Purpose: Serving the Greater Good

In this video, Nick Kemp discusses a different kind of freedom—one where individuals willingly set aside personal interests to serve the greater good.

Freely choosing inconvenience

Nick: It's an interesting word and concept, freedom. And to offer a perspective that might also tie in to this by a research pioneer on the concept of ikigai, her name was Mieko Kamiya; she discovered the seven ikigai needs, and one was freedom.

She described freedom as, obviously, you have freedom of choice. But with those choices, she said, there are two sort of significant ones that people run away from; one was basically delayed gratification, so that you put aside immediate freedom for a better freedom in the future.

But perhaps more significantly, this one's really interesting, is you put aside your personal freedom for a freedom that serves a greater good. So I'm sure many people do that in their work. And she described it as you’re freely choosing inconvenience to serve a greater good. But that's an expression of freedom in and of itself.

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