Even if you're a doctor, an engineer at Google, a jet pilot, heck even the president. You will have monotonous days. You will have doubts about your choices and path. You will suffer and you will feel angst. However the wisdom comes in accepting your mortality and recognizing that this very moment matters because soon you'll sease to exist. It's realizing that your mere awareness of existing is what gives your life meaning. In the end even Einstein and da Vinci's immortalizing accomplishments will be forgotten and so will your greatest accomplishments. So at the end of the day, you can choose to live forever, or you can choose to live today.
@@FabSia not really. There are many people forgotten like that. Many.... They're just not from "our western empire". They were from previous Chinese, Islamic, Roman or Indian empires. And from other places and Era's as well.
The thing is, just because helpful philosophies exist in cultures does not mean everyone from it automatically lives by it. Many Japanese people even do live lives where they are not really progressing, but just repeating. It is a shame people can forget important life knowledge that has existed for centuries which is timelessly useful
Reminds me of cognitive behavioral therapy I did years ago, take those thoughts that come against you and rearrange the thoughts and to challenge them. This plus medicinal cannabis has saved my life.
This is profound and something I believe we should all be taught in school. This is the one thing where the school system fails people and this is discovering their passion and their hopes and dreams
And has third largest economy in the world despite their lower numbers and territory. Happiness was never the goal of life, algae ruled this entire planet for billion of years, you think algae was happy? Happiness is just a positive side effect.
So what is the goal? Being the largest? Ruling the planet? It's better to be like algae than to be happy is it? What's so great about being the third largest economy in the world if your happiness is in the shit? Sacrificing the happiness of yourself and others just so you can view yourself as the biggest (or the third biggest or whatever) is just narcissism.
Lol, narcissism, really? Life is goal in itself. Life is the only configuration of matter which have temporal constancy, it gives itself purpose. It does that through what you might understand as survival and reproduction. And i guess you dont realize that your virtue signalling(that narcissism bullshit...)is also in service of that goal.
Divine Linker So is it better to be algae than human? Would you rather live 100 years in a cage with mostly pain and despair, or 70 years of relative freedom with mostly a feeling of bliss and fulfillment?
"Life is goal in itself." Why? Just because life reproduces itself doesn't mean that it is some kind of end in itself. Cancerous cells reproduce themselves after all. Some life seeks to destroy itself (i.e. suicide). And why shouldn't it? "Life is the only configuration of matter which have temporal constancy" Huh? "And I guess you don't realize that your virtue signalling ..." What virtue signalling? Acting as if merely perpetuating your own existence (literally or otherwise through your genes for instance) is more important than absolutley anything else sounds pretty narcissistic to me. As does, hypothetically speaking, bragging about being the third largest economy in the world, and then acting as if the fact that you are the 54th happiest country in the world doesn't matter by comparison. "I'm big! Never mind that it feels relatively like shit to live inside me!" Like a two year-old or some shit. "I'm a big boy!" Yep, pretty typical todler narcissim.
I'm so Grateful for this video. I felt like I'm not alone in my search for meaning in life. I get criticized a lot by my family because they don't understand my despair. They think I'm ungrateful because I'm so intelligent and talented and the greatest opportunities to make money always falls straight into my lap, but I'm never satisfied with just making money. There is more to life than paying bills and buying stuff. And I'm tired already of having to explain myself, when this life is my gift to do whatever the fuck I want with it.
Naim Imteaz What makes you think Islam is what gives everyone fulfillment? I swear a lot of people be so ignorant to the point that their religion is the only thing that can make everyone around the world happy. Everyone has a sense of what’s meaningful to them not what’s meaningful to Muslims or some other group.
I love this! It’s how I live my life and didn’t even know about “ikigai”…quit my 9-5 years ago with no plan or contingency no savings and now I’m traveling the world getting be paid to be creative.
Most people spend too much time looking for a job that pays a little bit more. Think about what kind of job you think actually helps other people, what are you passionate about, and what kind of work/life balance best suits you. Money is one thing, but other considerations should be taken into account if you want to have a happy and long career.
Takin that "who am i not to do this" with me. Every successful person is flawed in some way. Didnt stop them. It's actually more inspirational. Thanks.
Much love my dude, that was powerful. I've heard of ikigai, but never spelled out from someone with your worldview and profession. Thanks for sharing your thoughts
This is one of the most important videos at any point in history. There is no more to discuss or argue about it. All conclusions will agree with everything said on this video. This is the Universe, which is Oneness, which is You, which is I, speaking.
After years of working in a career that is transitioning out from under me, it finally occurred to me that you shouldn’t wake up in the morning and think “ I HAVE to go to work” you should wake up and think “ I GET to go to work” . If you don’t know the difference, nothing will help you.
Logotherapy - Victor Frankl. Austro-Jewish Holocaust Survivor who wrote "Man's search for meaning". It is along the lines of Ikigai, yet I found it more helpful when applying to my everyday life and my environment.
I love that Venn Diagram of "ikigai", but that's too idealistic. If ikigai means to find work that is needed in the world, pays well, you love and you're good at, then you might get stuck looking forever.
Its the journey of striving towards Ikigai that has more benefit in life than actually achieving it. notice that his entire discussion is on the path, the striving for. He doesn't say as much about what happens when you get there.
Nothing in life is guaranteed. That is the whole message of the video. So why not keep trying to rediscover the things that challenge you and make you fell complete. That give you both life and purpose. That's a mature process that doesn't take your 20s to find, that is something you glean into when you're in your senior years. It's something you practice and keep doing so.
All people have a profession meaning all people r good at something and get paid for it. There are however jobs that destroy the planet and you will be more ikigai if u find a job that benefits human kind. Everything then comes down to a reflection of whether or not you love what you are good at and if you love your contributions to society. If not then get to work or continue being unfulfilled. The Ikigai diagram simply helps organise ur thoughts to allow u to find a more fulfilled profession. It does not mean u should search for a job that ticks all the ikigai boxes but rather it is an idea that says life is more than just getting paid for what u r good at.
To some degree, we’re all blessed or damned to look forever - I think that’s part of what it means to be human. What I’m taking from this idea of “ikigai” isn’t so much finding your niche as a final, static place as much as it is a way to direct where the meaning and work in your life should point. My take, at least.
Such an inspiring talk, loved it! It is a pity that there are so few around us who would do it themselves and encourage us, too to exchange success and spotlights for wonder✨
Wow, the first time I came across ikigai was listening to tim ferris podcast. It is indeed a fruitful motivation to leave the world in a better than you found it
I’m thankful that I didn’t get brainwashed into this way of thinking/life/society etc. For a long time I thought I was broken or somehow ‘wrong’ for being the way I am. I’m occasionally reminded of why I love who I am and love that I’m NOT that.
In all honesty i came to watch this video really unassuming. For one I'm familiar with the concept, and then this clearly western guy who come to speak of some deep Japanese concept, what does he know? Turned out to be one of the introspective & deep motivation speeches I've heard.
I look for wonder all around me and find it when I am in the moment: mindfulness. That is the path, the do. But modern life with all its intrusions, with its modular constructions and denial of "organic" makes it tough.
Eckhart Tolle might be worth a look - he went thru great mental suffering before finding his way out of it. i don't think i can put a link, but if you Google 'Eckhart Tolle; Transforming Loss And Suffering Into Enlightenment', it works. i noted that talk as "VVG" :)
good thought starter! although the comment about fear could go deeper, from my POV. asking yourself "why" when you feel fear can allow you to dissect the layers that create that fear, that vulnerability that's catalyzing that fear :D
I think current society relies too much on "rationality" and too little in "intuition", even though the second warns you when things very important needs to be addressed. It is like: "Ah. I have a good job with a decent/good salary. I should not even think about leave it just because I am not satisfied with that. What if I cannot pay my bills? What if I cannot pay my mortgage?" But when your intuition says that something is wrong, you should listen. And you should start digging and think: Why am I feeling this? What it is wrong with my life? And you should not settle until, somehow, answer this question. And once you start to grasp the answer, start to work towards to solve the problem. It might take years, but it is better to take years than to never do it. Remember that these feelings will consume your soul little by little, day after day, until you feel like a zombie, "soul less" when the alarm clock rings in the morning.
My father once told me.. To be a man is to be a machine. And he was probably right. In the future we will all be machines. It's going to be so great in so many ways!
Yeah, the first thing that I thought was: if you narrow yourself to be and act as a specific concept (here: a man) your desisions are prisoned by the borders of the constuct, therefore you're a machine which do what is programmed to do; so you shouldn't completely act as society wants you to because there's nothing that's really you; or smth like that idk
nothing at all I didn't write what was probable, I just wrote the first thing I thought, but of course my version doesn't quite fit what typical father would be willing to say. Also, that's a kinda grim and unsympathetic scenario of yours, but I think you're right.
what to do if there isn't any perfect solutions? Strive to the best one, as close as you can, of course. That's not that big of a problem. If there is no elements that can suit any one of the sectors, that's when you can start being depressed.
I have been doing ikigai, without even knowing my life is was will be ,has been always,ikigai.. For the days I don't have any reason, I simply, Don't get out of bed..
My problem is I'm not very good at what I love. The world definitely needs it, and is willing to pay for it, but I just can't get to the same level of all the other people getting paid to do it. Therefore I continue to do it (or practice it), but am unemployed and have been for a long time.
Good video, and I know no one really likes pronunciation corrections, but I have to- it bothered me the entire time how the guy was pronouncing ikigai. He was saying the emphasis wrong. It’s “ee-kee-gai” all the same emphasis throughout. But he seemed to put emphasis on the “kee” part. Just a heads up for those wanting to pronounce it correctly.
You can have a good paying job that pays well. But if you are around toxic clients or coworkers that is depressing. Even a low paying job that is underappreciated is great if you're with a good team .
I'm 52 years old. I've spent the last 16 years administering pensions. The office I worked in is closing, so I got a new job, with a very generous raise, administering pensions. I don't know that I want to do this anymore, but I don't know what I want to do.
This idea makes some big assumptions: like that you're good at anything, or that you can get paid for what you enjoy. Life isn't like that for everyone.
What he is saying is what "makes you happy" may not actually make you happy -- that you had an idealistic view of what will make you happy. When you realize this don't give up, just focus on yourself more and find that thing that makes you happy. Otherwise train yourself to find contentment in what doesn't make you happy.
Nope. He said challenge the voices in your head that tell you that you can't be who you truly want to, and work closer towards that ideal every day. People don't do what they truly want because they tell themselves they can't, and create barriers through their own fear of failure and rejection - thus they are stuck in life that isn't fulfilling. So he told the viewer exactly what they needed to hear.
Every body have ideas, some say; you should be focusing on one thing, to be better on the profession. Some say things like tgis guy, wake up in the morning to have interesting things to do.. Some say; we are the confused generation wanting all the things in life.. I am here standing trying to understand the which idea fits my life better, but i am not sure which is right and wrong anymore
I get paid for graduate physics research, I'm passionate about clean energy, I love writing science fiction, and I'm good at platformer video games. Guess I'm screwed.
well, you've got four whole ways to strive for ikigai. And actually, does ikigai acquired on per-subject basis? If not, you've already kinda got yourself 25% concentrated ikigai. Keep up the good work!
but over every possessor of knowledge is one [more] knowing. ( cahpter 12. Verse 76) I suddenly recalled this verse of Quràn and i just wanted to share it.
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Even if you're a doctor, an engineer at Google, a jet pilot, heck even the president. You will have monotonous days. You will have doubts about your choices and path. You will suffer and you will feel angst. However the wisdom comes in accepting your mortality and recognizing that this very moment matters because soon you'll sease to exist. It's realizing that your mere awareness of existing is what gives your life meaning. In the end even Einstein and da Vinci's immortalizing accomplishments will be forgotten and so will your greatest accomplishments. So at the end of the day, you can choose to live forever, or you can choose to live today.
I don't think Einstein ever be forgotten but what's the point? I bet he doesn't care now. After we die everything cease to matter.
We will never forget the people or their accomplishments who/which have created a dent or has helped shape humanity.. I get your point though..
Whut? This sounded very advanced thought at first, and then what? What are you trying to say? Haha
@@FabSia not really. There are many people forgotten like that. Many.... They're just not from "our western empire". They were from previous Chinese, Islamic, Roman or Indian empires. And from other places and Era's as well.
"Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
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-Herodotus
The thing is, just because helpful philosophies exist in cultures does not mean everyone from it automatically lives by it. Many Japanese people even do live lives where they are not really progressing, but just repeating. It is a shame people can forget important life knowledge that has existed for centuries which is timelessly useful
They already abandoned Ikigai many years ago
I love that feeling of waking up excited
Reminds me of cognitive behavioral therapy I did years ago, take those thoughts that come against you and rearrange the thoughts and to challenge them. This plus medicinal cannabis has saved my life.
captindo
Medicinal alcohol has changed my life drastically.
StaticDreamsEntert Medicinal meth has changed my life too
Yeah but only a few will understand this and it is sad
You should vacation to the West Coast and try recreational cannabis. It's more effective and it costs less.
Yes!
This is profound and something I believe we should all be taught in school. This is the one thing where the school system fails people and this is discovering their passion and their hopes and dreams
Japan is ranked 54 on the global happiness index. Japan should reboot itself with the Japanese philosophy of Ikigai.
And has third largest economy in the world despite their lower numbers and territory. Happiness was never the goal of life, algae ruled this entire planet for billion of years, you think algae was happy? Happiness is just a positive side effect.
So what is the goal? Being the largest? Ruling the planet? It's better to be like algae than to be happy is it? What's so great about being the third largest economy in the world if your happiness is in the shit? Sacrificing the happiness of yourself and others just so you can view yourself as the biggest (or the third biggest or whatever) is just narcissism.
Lol, narcissism, really? Life is goal in itself. Life is the only configuration of matter which have temporal constancy, it gives itself purpose. It does that through what you might understand as survival and reproduction. And i guess you dont realize that your virtue signalling(that narcissism bullshit...)is also in service of that goal.
Divine Linker So is it better to be algae than human? Would you rather live 100 years in a cage with mostly pain and despair, or 70 years of relative freedom with mostly a feeling of bliss and fulfillment?
"Life is goal in itself."
Why? Just because life reproduces itself doesn't mean that it is some kind of end in itself. Cancerous cells reproduce themselves after all. Some life seeks to destroy itself (i.e. suicide). And why shouldn't it?
"Life is the only configuration of matter which have temporal constancy"
Huh?
"And I guess you don't realize that your virtue signalling ..."
What virtue signalling? Acting as if merely perpetuating your own existence (literally or otherwise through your genes for instance) is more important than absolutley anything else sounds pretty narcissistic to me. As does, hypothetically speaking, bragging about being the third largest economy in the world, and then acting as if the fact that you are the 54th happiest country in the world doesn't matter by comparison. "I'm big! Never mind that it feels relatively like shit to live inside me!" Like a two year-old or some shit. "I'm a big boy!" Yep, pretty typical todler narcissim.
I'm so Grateful for this video. I felt like I'm not alone in my search for meaning in life. I get criticized a lot by my family because they don't understand my despair. They think I'm ungrateful because I'm so intelligent and talented and the greatest opportunities to make money always falls straight into my lap, but I'm never satisfied with just making money. There is more to life than paying bills and buying stuff. And I'm tired already of having to explain myself, when this life is my gift to do whatever the fuck I want with it.
Amen. I feel the same way
Learn ISLAM...
Yep.
@@slaveofAllah919 LOL ignore it you mean
Naim Imteaz What makes you think Islam is what gives everyone fulfillment? I swear a lot of people be so ignorant to the point that their religion is the only thing that can make everyone around the world happy. Everyone has a sense of what’s meaningful to them not what’s meaningful to Muslims or some other group.
I love this! It’s how I live my life and didn’t even know about “ikigai”…quit my 9-5 years ago with no plan or contingency no savings and now I’m traveling the world getting be paid to be creative.
Most people spend too much time looking for a job that pays a little bit more. Think about what kind of job you think actually helps other people, what are you passionate about, and what kind of work/life balance best suits you. Money is one thing, but other considerations should be taken into account if you want to have a happy and long career.
Takin that "who am i not to do this" with me. Every successful person is flawed in some way. Didnt stop them. It's actually more inspirational. Thanks.
Much love my dude, that was powerful. I've heard of ikigai, but never spelled out from someone with your worldview and profession. Thanks for sharing your thoughts
This is one of the most important videos at any point in history. There is no more to discuss or argue about it. All conclusions will agree with everything said on this video. This is the Universe, which is Oneness, which is You, which is I, speaking.
After years of working in a career that is transitioning out from under me, it finally occurred to me that you shouldn’t wake up in the morning and think “ I HAVE to go to work” you should wake up and think “ I GET to go to work” . If you don’t know the difference, nothing will help you.
Logotherapy - Victor Frankl. Austro-Jewish Holocaust Survivor who wrote "Man's search for meaning". It is along the lines of Ikigai, yet I found it more helpful when applying to my everyday life and my environment.
I love that Venn Diagram of "ikigai", but that's too idealistic. If ikigai means to find work that is needed in the world, pays well, you love and you're good at, then you might get stuck looking forever.
Its the journey of striving towards Ikigai that has more benefit in life than actually achieving it. notice that his entire discussion is on the path, the striving for. He doesn't say as much about what happens when you get there.
or, you find work that pays well then find why you do that, and love that work
Nothing in life is guaranteed. That is the whole message of the video. So why not keep trying to rediscover the things that challenge you and make you fell complete. That give you both life and purpose. That's a mature process that doesn't take your 20s to find, that is something you glean into when you're in your senior years. It's something you practice and keep doing so.
All people have a profession meaning all people r good at something and get paid for it. There are however jobs that destroy the planet and you will be more ikigai if u find a job that benefits human kind. Everything then comes down to a reflection of whether or not you love what you are good at and if you love your contributions to society. If not then get to work or continue being unfulfilled. The Ikigai diagram simply helps organise ur thoughts to allow u to find a more fulfilled profession. It does not mean u should search for a job that ticks all the ikigai boxes but rather it is an idea that says life is more than just getting paid for what u r good at.
To some degree, we’re all blessed or damned to look forever - I think that’s part of what it means to be human. What I’m taking from this idea of “ikigai” isn’t so much finding your niche as a final, static place as much as it is a way to direct where the meaning and work in your life should point. My take, at least.
Such an inspiring talk, loved it! It is a pity that there are so few around us who would do it themselves and encourage us, too to exchange success and spotlights for wonder✨
This just made my day, super helpful in a hard time I’m having at work and home. Thanks you for exposing so clearly too👌
its >I< kigai - not i >KI< gai.
Wow, the first time I came across ikigai was listening to tim ferris podcast.
It is indeed a fruitful motivation to leave the world in a better than you found it
I just graduated... I still have a lot of work to do, thank you for the encouragement.
I wish more and more people would realize their Ikigai soon because I think I found mine. Have a good day!
Mr. Bell this is one of the best video I have ever seen on UA-cam.
Truly you kindled the nerve..
I’m thankful that I didn’t get brainwashed into this way of thinking/life/society etc. For a long time I thought I was broken or somehow ‘wrong’ for being the way I am. I’m occasionally reminded of why I love who I am and love that I’m NOT that.
Ive been dead for a long time. And yet, I am still here. When will it just end?
This is one of the best channels on UA-cam
Yep. I definitely did the ikigai thing. It works.
My true self is the only part of me that wants to grow; I am that which wants to master my self.
Do you truly believe this?
Talk back to fear!
Say I know!!
Really useful tips right now!
Thank you!
In all honesty i came to watch this video really unassuming. For one I'm familiar with the concept, and then this clearly western guy who come to speak of some deep Japanese concept, what does he know?
Turned out to be one of the introspective & deep motivation speeches I've heard.
I look for wonder all around me and find it when I am in the moment: mindfulness. That is the path, the do. But modern life with all its intrusions, with its modular constructions and denial of "organic" makes it tough.
Thank you for this, I needed to hear this today. Very profound, resonated with my experience deeply.
Only get up to support my family. I dread and despair every moment and hate all the pain and suffering I see.
♥️
Eckhart Tolle might be worth a look - he went thru great mental suffering before finding his way out of it. i don't think i can put a link, but if you Google 'Eckhart Tolle; Transforming Loss And Suffering Into Enlightenment', it works. i noted that talk as "VVG" :)
You sound as jaded and cynical as I am...something brought us here.
Hilarious and probably so true.
My comment is to 68spaceman
Very helpful video - thanks for posting! :D
Everyone love wonder & understand success cannot garrantee the happiness. The question is how to achieve this.
The question is how to get out of the despair described in the initial part of the video
My purpose is lost
Softly ikigai whispers
"Seek, reflect, dear child."
wowwwwww. fantastic video! this is one of the best big think videos i have seen yet. good job!
Thanks for the great advice
I truly really needed this. It gives me back hope for my future. Thank you 🙏
good thought starter! although the comment about fear could go deeper, from my POV. asking yourself "why" when you feel fear can allow you to dissect the layers that create that fear, that vulnerability that's catalyzing that fear :D
Thank you
Wow. Thank you so much sir Rob Bell and Big Think. Thank you.
Thank you so much for enlighting me
So Ikigai can be roughly described as passion? It's a beautiful philosophy mindset and sounds similar to what I already think.
Fear proves were imprisoned..Fear keeps us captive unless it is for survival but fear goes rogue! Dig
happiness is not about getting more and more stuff but about needing less and less stuff.
I think current society relies too much on "rationality" and too little in "intuition", even though the second warns you when things very important needs to be addressed.
It is like: "Ah. I have a good job with a decent/good salary. I should not even think about leave it just because I am not satisfied with that. What if I cannot pay my bills? What if I cannot pay my mortgage?"
But when your intuition says that something is wrong, you should listen. And you should start digging and think: Why am I feeling this? What it is wrong with my life?
And you should not settle until, somehow, answer this question. And once you start to grasp the answer, start to work towards to solve the problem.
It might take years, but it is better to take years than to never do it.
Remember that these feelings will consume your soul little by little, day after day, until you feel like a zombie, "soul less" when the alarm clock rings in the morning.
Jeez, in the first two minutes this guy just perfectly described my life. I think I might need some Ikigai
Thanks to this
My father once told me.. To be a man is to be a machine. And he was probably right. In the future we will all be machines. It's going to be so great in so many ways!
I think you may have missed your father's point.
P4INKiller I miss my father.
Yeah, the first thing that I thought was: if you narrow yourself to be and act as a specific concept (here: a man) your desisions are prisoned by the borders of the constuct, therefore you're a machine which do what is programmed to do; so you shouldn't completely act as society wants you to because there's nothing that's really you; or smth like that idk
Ding ding ding!
nothing at all I didn't write what was probable, I just wrote the first thing I thought, but of course my version doesn't quite fit what typical father would be willing to say. Also, that's a kinda grim and unsympathetic scenario of yours, but I think you're right.
great video Rob!
Wow amazing content, loved this talk!! 🙌 Really needed it! 🙏
im subscribed to ikigai , makes great music
chippz lemonz lol yes
This was truly inspiring, and just what I needed to hear right now, thank you.
Are you making videos specifically for me, sure seems like it. Thank you I need these kind of videos.
I needed this!! Thank you!
And what should one do, if that ikigai-sector never emerges and there is no elements, which can suit all sectors?
what to do if there isn't any perfect solutions? Strive to the best one, as close as you can, of course. That's not that big of a problem. If there is no elements that can suit any one of the sectors, that's when you can start being depressed.
I have been doing ikigai, without even knowing my life is was will be ,has been always,ikigai..
For the days I don't have any reason, I simply, Don't get out of bed..
My problem is I'm not very good at what I love. The world definitely needs it, and is willing to pay for it, but I just can't get to the same level of all the other people getting paid to do it. Therefore I continue to do it (or practice it), but am unemployed and have been for a long time.
It's your mission, then? Give it your best, you'll get better! glhf
I needed to hear this today.
Good video, and I know no one really likes pronunciation corrections, but I have to- it bothered me the entire time how the guy was pronouncing ikigai. He was saying the emphasis wrong. It’s “ee-kee-gai” all the same emphasis throughout. But he seemed to put emphasis on the “kee” part. Just a heads up for those wanting to pronounce it correctly.
Ikigai is exactly where I am @now !
Really lovely. Thank you for the uplifting message! "That is interesting ..."
You can have a good paying job that pays well. But if you are around toxic clients or coworkers that is depressing. Even a low paying job that is underappreciated is great if you're with a good team .
I like this video, but what do I do? I don’t know what to do.
Best video in a while!
Big thanks for this, Brilliant!
I'm 52 years old. I've spent the last 16 years administering pensions. The office I worked in is closing, so I got a new job, with a very generous raise, administering pensions. I don't know that I want to do this anymore, but I don't know what I want to do.
Check out the Academy of Ideas channel. Lots of thought provoking videos on psychology and philosophy that may help
Fantastic video, fantastic channel. Very interesting stuff. Keep up the good job, it's really facinating.
This is the best 7 minutes I've seen... I'm going through everything you said here and you gave me huge inspiration
This idea makes some big assumptions: like that you're good at anything, or that you can get paid for what you enjoy. Life isn't like that for everyone.
*Unagi
"isn't that a type of fish?"
it's ikigai 生き甲斐
That's why I get out of bed
Tarek Aljawi it's an old "Friends" joke(the TV show)
you should have got the joke. come n!
"I didn't ask for success,
I asked for wonder" 💫
Thaaaank youuuuu!!!!!
Whenever I say that and smile to my fear, it says I'm lunatic lol.
I love you Rob Bell and I love this.. thank you!!
hey I'm wondering
He basically didn't say anything besides "do what makes you happy", which doesn't really actually help people to hear
What he is saying is what "makes you happy" may not actually make you happy -- that you had an idealistic view of what will make you happy. When you realize this don't give up, just focus on yourself more and find that thing that makes you happy. Otherwise train yourself to find contentment in what doesn't make you happy.
Nope. He said challenge the voices in your head that tell you that you can't be who you truly want to, and work closer towards that ideal every day. People don't do what they truly want because they tell themselves they can't, and create barriers through their own fear of failure and rejection - thus they are stuck in life that isn't fulfilling.
So he told the viewer exactly what they needed to hear.
oh so relatable.
Every body have ideas, some say; you should be focusing on one thing, to be better on the profession. Some say things like tgis guy, wake up in the morning to have interesting things to do.. Some say; we are the confused generation wanting all the things in life.. I am here standing trying to understand the which idea fits my life better, but i am not sure which is right and wrong anymore
The pep talk I really needed after 5 months into a new (meaningless) corporate job that I hate and dread.
I KNOW!!!
I want so bad to share this video with my friends and family, but most of them don't speak english. Can I add spanish subs?
It's not a moovie you know. It's just a talking head. You can tell your family and friends everything you just heard.
Well said. 👏👏👏
'Wonder' i want that!
This video is very captivating :)
inspiring
If u r truly alive no days will be the same ever ...
Whats the name of the speaker ??
Usefulness
I wish.
I am coming to realize more and more that the secret to joy in life is filling the measure of your creation.
Great!
I get paid for graduate physics research, I'm passionate about clean energy, I love writing science fiction, and I'm good at platformer video games. Guess I'm screwed.
well, you've got four whole ways to strive for ikigai. And actually, does ikigai acquired on per-subject basis? If not, you've already kinda got yourself 25% concentrated ikigai. Keep up the good work!
Well, I want to be that somebody who is always better.
Wow!!!! Absolutely beautiful.
I always have a new goal though. I just don't enjoy having to come to a job and be on other people's time :\
but over every possessor of knowledge is one [more] knowing. ( cahpter 12. Verse 76)
I suddenly recalled this verse of Quràn and i just wanted to share it.
buying new beds gets me out of bed🤔 Ikigai👌😆