Ikigai

This one’s from Japanese Buddhism — ikigai. It’s the same idea, aimed at the question of what to actually do with your life.

Three circles:

• What you love
• What you’re good at
• What others need

Where all three overlap — that’s the thing. Not a job you talk yourself into, not a should. The place where what you love and what you’re good at happens to be exactly what others need.

You already half-know where yours is. It’s usually the thing you’d keep doing even if no one paid you for it.