{"id":166,"date":"2017-08-15T03:20:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T03:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2017-08-15T03:20:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T03:20:29","slug":"ikigai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/15\/ikigai\/","title":{"rendered":"ikigai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like this infographic I found in the Toronto Star:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestar.com\/content\/dam\/thestar\/life\/relationships\/2016\/09\/06\/why-north-americans-should-consider-dumping-age-old-retirement-pasricha\/li-pasricha-pilot2.jpg?w=780&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a four-part Venn diagram, the four lobes being<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What you LOVE<\/li>\n<li>What you are GOOD AT<\/li>\n<li>What the world NEEDS<\/li>\n<li>What you can be PAID FOR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The part in the middle&#8211;the union of all four&#8211;bears the Japanese word ikigai. Strive for this. Or use it as a ruler to compare the life you have now with what could be.<\/p>\n<div class='_form_1'><\/div><script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/geekthoughts.activehosted.com\/f\/embed.php?static=0&id=1&6A8E9BD1BE262&nostyles=0&preview=0'><\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like this infographic I found in the Toronto Star: It\u2019s a four-part Venn diagram, the four lobes being What&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/15\/ikigai\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ikigai<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[60,61,62],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvement","tag-ikigai","tag-life","tag-purpose"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ikigai-EN-optimized-PNG.png?fit=509%2C509&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8fZzN-ikigai","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}