This is the second post in an ikigai series. Links to the remainder of the series are listed at the bottom of this post.
Ikigai 2.0: Evolving the Ikigai Diagram for Life Purpose (& Why and How it Needs to be Redesigned)
The first post gives you the origin/definition of ikigai, the evolution of the original ikigai diagram, and busts some myths that should be considered about ikigai. It provides the basis for why the ikigai diagram needs to evolve.
This post outlines why and how I think it should be redesigned.
A Quick Ikigai Refresher:
In the first post, we learned that ikigai actually has a dual meaning. If you were to sum up the various definitions and bucket them, we could categorize them like this (paraphrased):
1. The feeling/spiritual meaning that life is worth living (being): Universal human experience, humans as spiritual beings, the joy of living, the happiness and benefit of being alive, feeling that life is valuable/worth living
2. The object/source of value in one’s life that is worth living for (doing): Things that make one’s life worthwhile, something to live for, cultivating one’s inner potential, allowing the self’s possibilities to blossom, one’s work or family or dream, the realization of what one expects and hopes for
I believe the most powerful ikigai aligns both of these:
This is the absolutely critical piece that almost all of the modern day approaches to life purpose leave out: BEING.
I recently posted a summary of Oprah’s new book The Path Made Clear where she shares inspiration and perspectives from the world’s greatest visionaries, artists, teachers, and trailblazers. Guess what she realized about all of them?
Speaking of Oprah, she helped put spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle on the mainstream map. Tolle explains why being is primary and must come before doing. It turns out the ikigai dual meaning is exactly what Eckhart Tolle teaches:
- “The most important thing to realize is this: Your life has an inner purpose and an outer purpose. Inner purpose concerns Being and is primary. Outer purpose concerns doing and is secondary.”
- “Doing is never enough if you neglect Being. The ego knows nothing of being but believes you will eventually be saved by doing. If you are in the grip of the ego, you believe that by doing more and more you will eventually accumulate enough ‘doings’ to make yourself feel complete at some point in the future. You won’t. You will only lose yourself in doing. The entire civilization is losing itself in doing that is not rooted in Being and thus becomes futile.”
- “Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet – because it is the purpose of humanity. Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence.”
- “Awakened doing is the alignment of your outer purpose (what you do) with your inner purpose (awakening and staying awake).”
Maria Popova, author of the deep-thinking blog Brain Pickings, agrees:
- “I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being.”
Keep all of this in mind as we go through the evolution of ikigai below.
Ikigai 1.0: The Original Ikigai Diagram
To help illustrate the evolution, here’s a reminder of what the original—or at least most well-known—ikigai diagram looks like (you can see the initial work to get to this diagram here):
Ikigai 1.5: The Evolution of the Ikigai Diagram to Date
I’m not the first person to propose an update the original ikigai model. I did some digging to see what else I could find.
In 2016, it looks like the Toronto Star filled in some additional blanks using an ikigai image from the stock image site Dreamstime¹:
Next, David McCandless adjusted the orientation of the original diagram to attempt to get all four circles to intersect with the following rationale:
- “Sadly, pedantically, the four-way Venn in the diagram is broken, from a technical POV. If you look closely, two sectors – love & paid for, good at & world needs – don’t intersect uniquely.”
- “So I fixed that and theorised what those missing sectors might contain, while making a few other tweaks.”²
And, the final version I’d like to share with you is from Amanda Kudo, who published a book in 2018 titled My Little Ikigai Journal. Amanda actually changes some of the circles:
- “What you can be paid for” changed to “Where I can make a difference”
- “What the world needs” changed to “How I see the world”
These two circle changes also require changes to the overlapping areas:
- “Profession” changed to “Gifts”
- “Mission” changed to “Values”
- “Vocation” changed to “Possibilities”
Ikigai 2.0: Why & How the Ikigai Diagram Needs to be Redesigned (5 Key Points)
Given that the original diagram was just a concept for life purpose and not directly related to ikigai, we should really start from scratch. We’ll leave that project for another day and instead adapt and evolve what the internet has come to know as the “ikigai diagram.”
Here are five key points outlining why and how I think the ikigai diagram needs to be updated:
This is covered in the intro of this post.
HOW: I believe this needs to be visually reflected in the center of the diagram. Being and doing must be aligned together.
I’ve never seen Dan Buettner or the Blue Zones endorse the ikigai diagram. What does the official Blue Zones site say about ikigai?
- “Individuals who understand what brings them joy and happiness tend to have what we like to call the Right Outlook. They are engulfed in activities and communities that allow them to immerse themselves in a rewarding and gratifying environment.”³
- “Do an internal inventory—think about your ideals, principles, standards and morals. Then think of your physical, emotional and mental talents, strengths and abilities.”³
HOW: We need to incorporate Right Outlook into the model. I believe talents/principles/ideals fall into the existing circles.
This is covered in more detail in the previous ikigai post if you need a refresher. Many people in Okinawa never “retire.” They perform their ikigai (or have multiple purposes) for as long as they live. Some people have an ikigai related to their family which also supports why money should be removed.
How: Remove the circle for “what you can be paid for” and show money as an optional byproduct/outcome of living your ikigai (relevant for some; not for others).
Ikigai emphasizes process, immersion, and a sense of mastery rather than an end goal.
James clear, a habits expert and author of the book Atomic Habits, says:
- “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
- “It is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.”
The process continues forever:
- “I think life is a process. You wake up. Then you wake up some more. One self dies. Another is born. It’s an evolution of consciousness.” — Sue Monk Kidd
HOW: We need a visual element that shows that there is an ongoing process involved in ikigai.
This works two ways:
- Clockwise around the diagram: Each step is a filter for the prior circle
- Example 1: I love music (circle 1), but I’m not encoded for it (circle 2). This doesn’t work.
- Example 2: If you love something (circle 1) and are encoded for it (circle 2), this could turn to selfishness or greed if not filtered through what the world needs (circle 3). In theory, if you are doing out of alignment with being, this shouldn’t lead to a place of selfishness/greed in the first place—but circle 3 is another checkpoint here and allows you to frame what you do in context of the world/humanity.
- Counterclockwise around the diagram:
- Example 1: Being genetically encoded for something (circle 2) is not enough if you don’t love it enough to do anything with it (circle 1).
- Example 2: You can forget about what the world needs (circle 3) if you can’t even figure out what you need (circles 1/2).
HOW: Show that there is a priority order / weighting by adjusting the size of the circles accordingly and show that the process is to follow them clockwise.
I believe everything is a remix, and the best ideas build on previous ideas. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think of this evolution. What do you think of the rationale (the why & how)? How about the diagram itself?
You May Also Enjoy:
- Get the new eBook: Ikigai 2.0: A Step-by-Step Guidebook to Finding Life Purpose & Making Money Meaningfully (+ Bonus Workbook)
- The Truth about Ikigai: Definitions, Diagrams & Myths about the Japanese Life Purpose
- My Ikigai 2.0 — A Detailed Personal Ikigai Example of How to Find Your Life Purpose
- “Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life” by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles (Book Summary)
- How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose: “Awakening Your Ikigai” by Ken Mogi (Book Summary)
Footnotes:
- https://www.thestar.com/life/relationships/2016/09/06/why-north-americans-should-consider-dumping-age-old-retirement-pasricha.html
- https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/ikigai-japanese-concept-to-enhance-work-life-sense-of-worth/
- https://www.bluezones.com/2011/08/the-right-outlook-how-finding-your-purpose-can-improve-your-life/
I love the why and how!! I agree, as a mama of 2 girls, that the money piece doesn’t need to be there, it’s more a value concept. I really like the 3 ring Ikigai 2.0. It simplifies it and checks and balances. It’s easier to focus on what truly matters simply having 3 rings instead of 4. Love what you are doing all the way over in Maine!! Thanks for sharing! Keep it coming
-Ang
Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment from across the country, Angela! So glad to hear Ikigai 2.0 resonated with you.
Thank you for the Ikigai 2.o revised model. As I’m currently on a passage through my existential crisis this heightened state is giving me a strong focus on essence — or my acceptance of how deep happiness is only possible if I make a choice about the foundation of the universe. For me, eternalism seems to be a potential fit. Thus, I’m now looking at models like 2.0 and asking if this core ‘essence’ aspect is powerfully represented. My current view is ‘not quite’ and I’ll continue to reflect.
Please continue with your unique and excellent work as it’s extremely helpful. Warm regards, Robert Harris
It sounds like you are way ahead of the game, Robert! Essence is a key ingredient. Be careful of subscribing too much to any “ism” though; it can end up being the same desire as the opposite “ism” just from a different direction.
Here are some other posts that may resonate with you:
– Your Purpose on “A New Earth” (Eckhart Tolle Book Summary #2)
– Happiness 301: The Master’s Guide for How to be Happy Spiritually (Presence, Letting Go, Transcendence, Joy)
– 50+ Deep Perspectives on Humanity’s Underlying & Ultimate Challenge (Hint: Ourselves)
– What is Transcendence? The True Top of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Kyle! I’m so thankful for this post! Ever since I read Garcia’s book, I feel the need to correct the popular, westernised, Ikigai venn diagram everytime I see it everywhere on the internet.. Thank you for taking the time to clear things up, wow!
I’m thrilled to hear that, Risa! It was really eye-opening to learn the truth about ikigai. After that, I felt compelled to redesign the diagram in an attempt to authentically showcase the reality of the concept. So glad it resonated with you!
Hi Kyle
I love your work on sloww…the book summaries are God-sent and I appreciate how you express complex concepts with such clarity. Big Thank You.
Regarding Ikigai, I feel the venn diagrams are complicated. I like Esther Hicks (Abraham)’s analogy that life’s sole purpose is joy. To me, that is awe…when we see nature, when we see a new born smile…
And life is like a river flowing downstream. Just Be yourself (first) and sit tight in the raft and do what feels good and right for you (alignment), and the flow of life will take you downstream. Avoid work that is a struggle; stop paddling upstream as universe forces will be against you and your efforts will be futile.
Thanks so much for the kind words, Sarah! And, I appreciate you sharing your honest thoughts about ikigai. I worried a bit about the venn diagrams being complicated. Part of that is the nature of the viral 4-circle diagram that the internet has come to know as ikigai (which isn’t really ikigai). I debated starting from scratch vs updating it, but for better or worse I went the route of trying to evolve it.
Eckhart Tolle’s perspective on joy from “A New Earth” sounds similar to what you’ve described from Esther Hicks:
– “Joy is the dynamic aspect of Being. When the creative power of the universe becomes conscious of itself, it manifests as joy.”
– “Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.”
– “To be more precise, what you are enjoying is not really the outward action but the inner dimension of consciousness that flows into the action. This is finding the joy of Being in what you are doing.”
– “The joy of Being is the joy of being conscious.”
In theory, “joy” would be part of the “Inner Purpose (Being)” middle of the ikigai 2.0 diagram; the common/shared purpose of all humanity.
I love the part about the river flowing; is that also from Esther Hicks or from you? I recently posted on Twitter about the tension between desire/non-desire and ambition/non-ambition, and someone responded with the advice: “Row, with respect for the flow of the river.” I love that thought.
Thank you Kyle for the great wisdom in this article.
You definitely add some levels to the concept and the differenciation between being and doing is an awesome aspect. But I get the feeling you are complicating the model to a point where it looses its charme of simplicity.
Food for thought: I also disliked the “money” aspect in it because it adds an element of economic efficiency that is not necessary for fulfilment. As we are social animals the exchange of the individual and the world is a necessary part. (Even the hermit comes down from their mountain at some point to share the new found wisdom.) With that in mind we simply rebranded “what you can be paid for” into “what you can get recognition for” – its an essential part of human nature to be seen and understood – and intentionally a very different one to “what the world needs”.
Best regards and thanks for this whole blog!
Paul
Thanks, Paul! I appreciate the feedback. I think you’re right in regards to simplicity and charm. I couldn’t help but take a stab at getting the diagram closer to the truth of ikigai.
Your approach of replacing “what you can be paid for” with “what you can get recognition for” is interesting. Ultimately, the beauty is that all these redefined and redesigned versions exist now so anyone truly searching for meaning and purpose can use the one that resonates the most with them. All the best!
Very nice, thank you.
Thank you, faiza.
Hi Kyle,
First of all, I thank you deeply for your articles about re-designing Ikigai.
I have encountered the Ikigai thinking two years ago and felt very attracted by it.
But I felt uncomfortable with the diagramm that usually represented it. Among your own criticisms and proposals, the one that struck me at first was that the statement “what you can ne paid for” did not faithfuly reflect the authentic Ikigai.
Why dit it bother me? I have learned a lot about our unconscious relationship to money with Peter Koenig (Peter Koenig System) and I now give seminars about it. The main teaching of it is that when you seek to fullfil your deep needs with money, it does not work. We are called to discover how to become “rich” with AND without money.
So it was hard for me to believe that such a profound reflexion on life like Ikigai would put “getting money” as something (always) desirable if you want to live a purposeful life!
So the words “reward” ou “recognition” are much more meaningful in the big picture of “living a worthy life”. One can be rewarded or recognised in so many ways, with AND without money.
One of my main passions is to draw links between several theories or ways of thinking about human life. I feel satisfaction when I can see that different approaches complete and enrich each other.
Thank you!
I appreciate the kind words, Damien! I’m unfamiliar with the Peter Koenig System and will need to check it out. Sounds very interesting. A few others have proposed words similar to “reward”/”recognition” in the “what you can be paid for” circle, but to me even rewards and recognition are simply desires/byproducts/outcomes of the other circles once in alignment. Keep up the good work connecting theories about humanity!
Is there any tool/template or where we can answer some questions and help us to clarify/find our ikigai??
Good question, Fabiano. I would simply use the template in the Ikigai 2.0 image as your guide, and answer the questions:
1. What do you love / what are you deeply passionate about?
2. What are you encoded for (genetic talent/gift)?
3. What does the world and/or humanity need?
These questions may seem straightforward on the surface, but they require some deep reflection and action to truly answer authentically for yourself.
Great work Kyle! Thank you, I really enjoyed reading this article and it’s my very first time on your blog. I’m definitely going to be one of your followers! However, I don’t agree with the third answer “What does the world need?” and I’ll explain to you why. I’m still on my journey to find my life purpose and I’ve tried to apply the Ikigai model more than once. Like you, I supposed that doing what the world needs were the right thing to do. What I’ve personally experienced though, is a series of failed businesses. I believe that the question that makes the Ikigai viable is “what does the world want?” and then apply your unique talent and gifts to make your offer different from anybody else. People may need something but they don’t really WANT it, and many times I’ve noticed that they are not willing to take the necessary actions to get what they truly need. I believe t’s easier and less frustrating giving people what they want instead of what they need. But this is just my opinion.
Welcome Antonella! Keep in mind that ikigai doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with work or making money (although I think you can align the ikigai 2.0 circles to have work/money be a byproduct). I believe there are research studies out there that confirm that very few people actually know what they truly want—most likely because people don’t know who they truly are. So, I’m hesitant to change “what the world and/or humanity needs” to “what the world and/or humanity wants.” Here are some of humanity’s biggest challenges in my opinion. The Effective Altruist community also lists their take on humanity’s biggest challenges.
Great article and improvements to the Ikigai. I really appreciate the careful analytic work. The ikigai is new to me, but from my perspective in narrative ethics, I think you’ve really got something interesting here. Thanks for taking the time to write this!
That’s great to hear, thank you Matthew!
Really love this transformation of the “original” IKIGAI. As said the original “what you can get paied for” might be a misinterpretation but never the less leaving this part out is good as it’s an outcome / result rather than building components of a fulfulled life.
What if I say:
GROW what MATTERS to LIVE a fullfilled life?
With GROW I mean growing each circle. MATTERS in this case means the union where all circles overlap (IKIGAI) and LIVE is the result of bring in this continuoues consious process.
Thanks a mill for sharing your thoughts. It inspires me a lot.
Cheers from Stockholm/Sweden!
/Stefan 😀
Hello from California, Stefan! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on ikigai. I resonate with your ideas of growth, what matters, and of it being a continuous conscious process just like the journey of life.
This is great stuff, Kyle. Everything you suggest here resonates with me, and I especially love your 5th point of emphasizing a weighting/prioritization system.
That said, I’m not a huge fan of the new language around “what are you encoded for (genetic talent/gift),” because it assumes that what a person is good at is innate, and therefore cannot be learned. For example, is being a talented artist genetic or learned? I’d argue the answer is a bit of both. Essentially, it reminds me of the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset.
I don’t know the perfect solution off the top of my head, but I would recommend “widening” that element of the venn diagram to be more inclusive of “earned” skill in addition to genetic talent.
Keep up the good work!
Appreciate it, Marc! I’ve thought and read quite a bit about talents/gifts vs skills. I agree with your thinking that a talented artist is both gift and skill. In a way, it’s kind of like the combo of finding your purpose + creating your purpose. Discovering it is just step one…then you need to do something with it. It could also be similar to fate + free will. Or, self-actualization + transcendence. The combination is critical.
The thinking around talents/gifts comes from Jim Collins. He describes his own experience going to school to become a mathematician…but then he met people who were genetically encoded for math. Although he was skilled in math, he admits he wasn’t genetically encoded for math.
In his own words: “There’s a big difference between what you’re good at and what you’re genetically encoded for.”
It seems like skills could actually be a byproduct of what you love/are passionate about and your talents/gifts. Of course, we are all likely to develop other skills along the way to figuring out true purpose. For instance, I developed skills in marketing over the course of a decade before figuring out my purpose. Those years aren’t considered wasted by any means. They directly led me to an existential crisis and purpose, and I’m now able to more intentionally use those prior skills learned.
More here (including a video of Jim):
– Life Purpose Showdown: Ikigai vs the Hedgehog Concept by Jim Collins
– Build Momentum for your Life Purpose with the Flywheel Effect by Jim Collins
Thank you so much for this amazing insight into Ikigai, Kyle. All the way from South Africa, I enjoy this read so much. I am a student studying to be an occupational therapist. While writing a reflective essay I came across your blog and it resonated with an article on ‘Being, doing and becoming’, written by Anne Wilcock in 1998, one of the greatest OTs of our time. It gave me such excitement to come across something that links so clearly with this article. Ikigai and your explanation of it, changed the way I think about life, and our profession so much.
Thank you kindly!
You are very welcome, Carla! I’ll check out Anne Wilcock’s work. Sounds very interesting.
This is it, Kyle! You found the misery of Ikigai and eliminate it perfectly. It did not resonate me with 4 circles. That was too complex even for Zen philosophy. It helps me much! Thank you!
Wonderful, thank you Ansi!
Hi Kyle, I’ve been really appreciating your writings here on sloww as I’m working through an existential crisis and trying to discover / create / learn what is, or what I want to be, at the core of my precious time alive.
I am curious about the money aspect as well. I have been struggling with trying to see how my current career stage aligns with my deeper life purpose, and have been feeling a strong sense of despair that it might not, despite feeling strongly that I want to continue in it to have a positive impact on the world (“what the world needs”). I think I’m realizing that that isn’t enough on its own. But money does feel important, as well, because I have lived in poverty conditions in the past and I feel an immense fear of returning to that. So having financial stability feels like a core life need.
I think I have been assuming that because you spend approximately a third of your waking hours working (if you’re full time), that the time you spend at work should be contributing to life purpose and therefore ikigai because otherwise a large amount of precious time is wasted.
I can see now that another option is to ignore that time if it’s too hard to find a job that can go towards life purpose, and instead spend the rest of your time in alignment with it.
Do you have any thoughts about how to approach the time you need to spend earning money and how it relates to the domains of ikigai as you’ve evolved them here? Thank you for your writings 🙏
Hi Melissa – Thanks so much for the kind words. You sound like you’re in the same boat as me. My aim is to blur the lines between work/play/life. To your point, work is too much of the “life pie” to simply accept or ignore a job devoid of purpose. I could not find purpose in my marketing career (the job I had or industry in general), so I left the career and paycheck behind to pursue purpose. But, that means that money needs to now come from somewhere else.
I fully believe that you can align the ikigai circles in order to have money be a byproduct of the circles working together in alignment. I love how Maria Popova of Brain Pickings describes her own philosophy as personal development *before* business development (business development is simply a byproduct). If you are truly doing what you love, what you are made for, and what the world needs, the beauty of it is that not only can you align it to make some money, but you also transcend money because you “get paid” in so many other ways (see what Abraham Maslow said about “metapay” — #23 in this post).
There are some options to achieve this—they all begin by being truly honest with yourself about your own ikigai circles:
1. Entrepreneurship / Solopreneurship by aligning the ikigai circles (this is what I’m pursuing with Sloww)
2. Finding a new job that better aligns with your circles in order to have more meaning/purpose
3. “Job-crafting” at your current job — “Job crafting is about taking proactive steps and actions to redesign what we do at work, essentially changing tasks, relationships, and perceptions of our jobs. The main premise is that we can stay in the same role, getting more meaning out of our jobs simply by changing what we do and the ‘whole point’ behind it.” (Source)
Hope that helps a bit, but please let me know if you have follow-up questions.
Hi Kyle,
I’m from Brazil and I was looking for some text that would explain better about the “What you can be paid”, part of the traditional diagram. It looks complex. What exactly would be something I would be paid for? What exactly would that be?
I also find the “What you love” part rather generalized, but at the same time it makes sense to be that way, in a way. I was looking for a better explanation.
But, in fact, I wonder more about the first one. Sometimes I really don’t know how I can better guide myself on this issue. What do you think? How would you answer or what questions would contribute to it? “Where I can make a difference” by Amanda Kudo seems to suggest something, but “where”?…
The subject of the sentence changes. Maybe “What can I be paid that shows my differential”? or “My difference that can be noticed and paid for”?
Congratulations on your content.
Amanda
Hi Amanda – “What you can be paid for” is usually associated with work (your job/career, side job/business, entrepreneurship, etc).
I’d encourage you to read through the additional ikigai articles which should answer your questions:
– The Truth about Ikigai: Definitions, Diagrams & Myths about the Japanese Life Purpose
– My Ikigai 2.0 — A Detailed Personal Ikigai Example of How to Find Your Life Purpose
– 🔒 Monetizing Purpose Synthesis: How to Meaningfully Make Money from Your Life Purpose (+ Infographics)
I’ve also recently put everything into an Ikigai 2.0 eBook you may enjoy.
I would also like to better understand why in Ikigai 2.0 the circles have different sizes and blue intensity.
Hi Amanda – The different circle sizes represent a weighting/priority system as described in the article (#5 above).
Finding your genetic talent seems very difficult and apparently more something that comes to you (if it ever does) rather than something you can look for proactively.
I mean, unless you are someone who, for example, started a sport or playing an instrument when you were very young (which seems to speak for talent being an early learned skill rather than a genetic “gift”, but that’s for another discussion I guess), it seems to me than finding what we are “encoded for” is something that will elude most of us for most of our lives.
Personally I have been through everything from Enneagram to Myers-Briggs, Birkman, Strong Interest and Skill Survey, Hero’s Journey, Parachute, etc., etc. and it eludes me to this day.
Have you noticed any themes from all the different assessments, Dirk? That’s how I started to figure it out after MBTI, Enneagram, DiSC, StrengthsFinder, etc. None of them are perfect, but I started to connect the dots between them all, I eventually figured it out. I was in my 30s when I finally had the aha moment of, “Oh, thinking itself can be a passion, and it is my passion.”
Also, when it comes to genetic talent/gift, I like to think about it more as how you’re “encoded” as a whole (which incorporates nature, nurture, and the amalgamation of everything else since it’s often too hard to differentiate between what came from where anyway).
Really enjoyed the read, especially the way to view Ikigai as a process/ journey instead of a fixed state. Everything in the universe is impermanent, hence there is no fixed state. By staying present and flowing with the stream of life, we will continuously adapt aspects of our Ikigai.
One thought that I find is missing within the original Ikigai and party within yours:
Nowadays, we have more freedom than ever before. Being able to work and communicate regardless of location and even in different time zones offers something unprecedented. So I would add another dimension question to this: “In what way do I want to live/design my life?”
True, it makes it a bit more complex. But today’s world is more complex than ever. And only when we are in an environment that is fulfilling and inspiring, and when we do our work in a way that we feel comfortable with, do I believe we achieve complete fulfillment.
Kyle, when I listened to your podcast (you as the guest), it was just so fascinating that you’re almost like a male version of me. The way you’ve developed, the wounds in childhood and achievement drive when you were younger into marketing career, then finding more about purpose, slow living, personal development, and then deep diving into systems thinking, epistemology & critical thinking, vertical development, and then getting into the teal of being, spirituality, and nature… It’s great to have found someone like me on my journey and I feel quite happy to have Ikigai model redone to reflect the depth and wisdom in the human being experience. <3
Thank you for your contributions, hope to meet you soon.
V