Ikigai… “a reason for being”
The diagram below is the usual way of illustrating the concept, but I find it imperfect. Why does “What you can be Paid For” have to be so central to self-actualization?
Randy Newman famously sang “It’s Money That Matters”…. but it was irony.
Ikigai … without being paid for it is possible… I will be living it soon. But, if I can make money from my writing, well, as my younger daughter recently said, “It’s not like I don’t like money”.
