The Five pillars of ‘reason’ for ‘living’ -(ikigai)

Vinayak Ravi
3 min readFeb 15, 2021

Contemplating ‘success’ in the form of ‘Ikigai’, will lead all of us in gaining & reaching tremendous heights, balancing our true nature, our strengths, how we make money and what we are servicing to the world. The 4 main things what we all want is represented in ‘ikigai’ and is detailed down as:

Firstly, ‘What we Love’ : In the crux of everything is doing/working for something that brings you utmost joy and which would urge you to wake up even before the alarm and appear at your office/work-place and get at it 24/7, not keeping tab of the flow of time. This ‘love’ can be associated by taking origin from our innate nature.From which, we will end up in doing the things that we are most happy about.

Secondly, ‘What we are good at’, this might not always coincide with what we love and it will mostly be from what we ‘nurture’ along our life. We will excel in handling all the tasks/objectives put forth in front of us, within the umbrella of skills that we are good at. But, there is always this longing for something isn’t it ?.

Thirdly, ‘What the world needs’, this will require in exercising the skill set you had learnt in solving a problem that addresses the needs of the society/ world or you doing a thorough market-research and starting up something and in truly rendering service. But, not many stories end up with flying colors and many are left half-way, why is that ?.

Fourth, ‘What you get paid for’, money is truly not a must-have but it is always…

--

--