We have always heard a familiar line from our elders that one must have a purpose in life. Yet, many of us take this as a burden or chore, and often try to escape such questions and discussions.

Finding your ikigai Ikigai has been drawn in books and articles as the center of a Venn diagram in which your answers to these questions all overlap: What do you love? What are you good at? What can ...

What if the secret to lasting happiness lay in a simple ritual? In Japan, and particularly on the island of Okinawa, ikigai—the philosophy of life that involves giving daily meaning to one's existence ...

"Let yourself be silently drawn in by the strange force of what you really love. It won't be able to lead you astray." Ikigai is a Japanese concept that can be roughly translated as "raison d'être" or ...