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It depends on your personality. Some people can live without a calling. I can’t.

What helps me a lot is to review the Ikigai attributed framework regularly and to think which of the dimensions is important for me and who I do currently along them:

1. What are you good at?

2. What do you enjoy doing?

3. What is paid money for?

4. What is good for the planet?

My focus is on 1-3.



"What is good for the planet" sounds related to eco-activism; but Ikigai asks "What does the world need?"


Yeah fair enough. What does the world need sounds similar to the money point in my opinion.

btw: Ikigai doesn’t say anything about that. The framework is made up and referenced to Ikigai by a western dude as far as I know.


It is an interesting distinction. Doing work that is valuable to other people is a key way to make sure you can keep working successfully. Fighting all the people to convince them to do something different to save themselves from bad long term problems is ethical but possibly less likely to lead to success, even in the non—monetary, people are happy you exist fashion. So making yourself useful to other people isn’t the same exactly as do what pays well, but it can lead to the sort of “not a passion but enables a good life” situations. People that seek to save us from ourselves are super necessary but also have a tendency to burn out. We all need to try to make our society a few percent better each year for the long term problems and then the zealots can relax a bit.


> btw: Ikigai doesn’t say anything about that

Sorry, I was misled by the Venn diagrams people make.




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