Everything you need to know about Ikigai

Japan Nakama
5 min readApr 27, 2021

It’s a Monday morning. Your alarm clock goes off and you open your eyes, just enough to press the snooze button. You then get dressed and head to work.

After a long day, you come home and think to yourself, “Is this all that my life amounts to? A 9–5, 5 days a week?”, before going to bed and repeating the same routine the next day.

Have you ever wished something, anything, would dramatically change your life?

The world is advancing at such a quick pace that it’s easy to feel discontent with yourself. Status…

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