Periodic Table of Frameworks · Meaning · Life

Ik

4 parts

Ikigai

Japanese; the four-circle teaching

You want a reason to get up. The problem is you have a job, or a passion, or a cause — one circle, not four. What you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, what you can be paid for. Live in one circle and you will be busy or broke or both. Stand in the overlap and the days have a why.

You

The world

Heart

Work

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A life reason sits where what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for overlap.

Use this on a life. It answers: What's it all for?

How this talks to the others

  • Pushes against

    Dickens Process

    One names a reason to get up. The other names the cost of staying down. They disagree about which sitting comes first.

  • Pushes against

    Hierarchy of needs

    One is a ladder you climb. The other is four circles you stand in. They disagree about whether a life is sequential.

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