Ikigai - Japanese Secret to long and happy life ✨
Ikigai means reason for being. This concept can help you find your purpose, the reason for waking up in the morning.
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1 - Something you are good at
2 - You love to do
3 - The world should need it
4 - You have to get paid for that
We often spend too much time improving something we are bad at and ignoring what we are good at.
Concentrate on what you are good at. Become a master in that one thing.
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This goes hand in hand with Dim 1. You are only good at something because you love it.
The complication occurs when you love something that has certain parts that you repel.
This is where you need to understand the power of outsourcing.
The world here can be a small family, a small community or the whole wide world.
Dwell upon how your current skill set can make the world a better place?
To make this sustainable, consider money as a form of energy that fuels this purpose.
Dim 1 & 2 = When we do what we are good at and what we love = Passion
But Passion alone does not mean Ikigai, as it could also be something the world does not need (can be destructive) or generate money.
But a mission alone cannot be Ikigai. Because we may not be good at it nor do we earn anything from it.
This alone does not mean Ikigai. We might not be good at it nor do we love doing it. Without passion for it, it won't sustain for long.
But this does not mean the world needs it or that one loves doing it. Many people hate their professions.
This is not something you will find in a day. But understanding the 4 dimensions is the 1st step in the quest to achieve Ikigai.
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Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
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As someone\u2019s who\u2019s read the book, this review strikes me as tremendously unfair. It mostly faults Adler for not writing the book the reviewer wishes he had! https://t.co/pqpt5Ziivj
— Teresa M. Bejan (@tmbejan) January 12, 2021
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x