What is your Ikigai?
[NOT A STUDY, a blog post. READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, including the comment thread and the two notes Winn has added since] Winn, M. (2014). 'What is your Ikigai?' theviewinside.me, published 14 May 2014. Publication date confirmed in the page metadata, article:published_time 2014-05-14T07:00:57+00:00, and printed on the page as '14 May 2014'. THE FOUNDING DOCUMENT OF THE DIAGRAM. It opens by saying that, according to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai, which is essentially a reason to get up in the morning and a reason to enjoy life. Immediately below the image, he says that ikigai lies at the centre of the interconnecting circles, that lacking one area means missing out on one's potential, and that it also means missing a chance at a long and happy life. The source of that clause is the next paragraph, which points readers at Dan Buettner's TED talk on living to 100 and states that one of the most significant factors is ikigai. SO THE LONGEVITY PROMISE IS IN THE FOUNDING TEXT RATHER THAN A LATER CORRUPTION BY THE SELF-HELP MARKET. The four circles as the post itself puts them: whether you do something you love, that the world needs, that you are good at, and that you can be paid for. The note appended at the foot says the diagram is not his: it began as a purpose Venn diagram by the Spanish astrologer Andres Zuzunaga, which Winn came across through David Carter's book Breakthrough, and Winn only added a single word to an existing shape; he credits Zuzunaga, who pointed this out in the comments some years ago. The current image caption credits the four-circle purpose diagram to Andres Zuzunaga, adapted by Marc Winn in 2014 by adding the word ikigai. Winn is living and no motive is imputed to him anywhere in this batch.
[NOT A STUDY, a blog post. READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, including the comment thread and the two notes Winn has added since] Winn, M. (2014). 'What is your Ikigai?' theviewinside.me, published 14 May 2014. Publication date confirmed in the page metadata, article:published_time 2014-05-14T07:00:57+00:00, and printed on the page as '14 May 2014'. THE FOUNDING DOCUMENT OF THE DIAGRAM. It opens by saying that, according to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai, which is essentially a reason to get up in the morning and a reason to enjoy life. Immediately below the image, he says that ikigai lies at the centre of the interconnecting circles, that lacking one area means missing out on one's potential, and that it also means missing a chance at a long and happy life. The source of that clause is the next paragraph, which points readers at Dan Buettner's TED talk on living to 100 and states that one of the most significant factors is ikigai. SO THE LONGEVITY PROMISE IS IN THE FOUNDING TEXT RATHER THAN A LATER CORRUPTION BY THE SELF-HELP MARKET. The four circles as the post itself puts them: whether you do something you love, that the world needs, that you are good at, and that you can be paid for. The note appended at the foot says the diagram is not his: it began as a purpose Venn diagram by the Spanish astrologer Andres Zuzunaga, which Winn came across through David Carter's book Breakthrough, and Winn only added a single word to an existing shape; he credits Zuzunaga, who pointed this out in the comments some years ago. The current image caption credits the four-circle purpose diagram to Andres Zuzunaga, adapted by Marc Winn in 2014 by adding the word ikigai. Winn is living and no motive is imputed to him anywhere in this batch.
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