IKIGAI and the Purpose of the Life
Most people don’t know what the purpose of their lives is. If anyone wants to see your life’s purpose and change and improve from where you are now, this is the best concept. Ikigai is a Japanese concept that allows you to look deep into yourself and identify your purpose in life. If we translate this word, we can get the meaning as “a reason for being” or “a reason to wake up in the morning.”
In IKIGAI, we have to decide four things first.
What do you love?
What you good at?
What you want to become? (paid for)
What world need from you?
You can figure out answers for these by looking deep into yourself.
Then each of these four parts makes combinations. Let’s see how to make an impact on us to find our purpose.
Passion — What you love + what you are good at
What is your passion?
Passion is the intersection of what you love and what you are good at. We cannot be passionate about something that we don’t love. Sometimes we could still not figure out our passion, what we are good at as an individual, and whether we love it. From this, it made it easy to find out our passion.
Mission — What you love + what the world needs
What is your mission?
The mission is the intersection of what you love and what the world needs from you. This is very important to figure out what is the direction of our lives. A mission can connect with your values.
Vocation — What the world needs + what you can be paid for
What is your vocation?
The vocation is the intersection of what the world needs and what you can be paid for. Simply vocation is the occupation that a person can have.
Profession — What you’re good at + what you can be paid for
What is your profession?
The profession is the intersection of what you are good at and what you can get paid for. The profession is essential for a person to direct their selves in his/her life journey.
I brief here some more insights of Ikigai.
Passion + Mission (love + good at + world needs) = Delight and fullness, but no wealth
Mission + Vocation (love + world needs + paid for) = Excitement and complacency, but sense of uncertainty
Vocation + Profession (world needs + paid for + good at) = Comfortable, but feeling of emptiness
Passion + Profession (love + good at + paid for) = satisfaction, but feeling of uselessness
We got to know more details about Ikigai. But I want to figure out how it helps for me. I am in the decision to follow the Software Engineering degree program as I think about the profession. But being in the software industry or any other field, I need to find my Ikigai. If we are not doing things we love, stuff we are good at, something the world needs, and items paid for, we get bored after some journey. Then we always try to catch the time when we are leaving this. But if you find the real purpose of your life, you will never feel that or bored.
Therefore, related to my journey, when I am selecting software engineering as my degree program, I never done this Ikigai test. But I remember I had that motivation to do a degree that relates to the IT sector. It still inside me, and I think I am working to achieve that. Meanwhile, I feel that I like to arrange functions, events, planning stuff. I figured out my Ikigai, where I would be in the next ten years, and the real purpose of my life. Maybe I am in this field in the future or be in another area by getting help from what I am learning now. I invite you all to find your purpose in life using IKIGAI. It will change your life to the correct path that you want to go without being bored.
Thank you! :)
References: https://www.talbraiman.com/post/ikigai-find-your-purpose
