"What are your reasons for living? What gets you going in the morning? What is your purpose in life? These are tough questions about which philosophers, novelists, and now increasingly scientists have been working for literally millennia.
There is a single Japanese word that encapsulates all such questions: ikigai. According to the Oxford English Dictionary ikigai is "a motivating force; something or someone that gives a person a sense of purpose or a reason for living."
So a very good, and deceptively simple question is: what's your ikigai?"
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