Beyond ikigai
Idea. Self-inquiry with more than one answer.
Contents
Why§
Ikigai is sold as one diagram with one center: what I love, what I am good at, what the world needs, what pays. A life rarely fits one center. The diagram also asks a tired person to find their passion and sell it.
A first shape§
The passivity index is the first tool in this line. It counts where defaults decide for me. A second tool would map skills and openings as a field of several centers, each with its own cost and energy.
One thread to test: linking passivity to the five-factor personality model (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism).
Open§
- The five-factor model was built and normed mostly on Western samples. What does it miss in Bangladesh?
- How does a self-inquiry tool avoid becoming a diagnosis it has no right to make?
- What does a tired person need first: a map, or permission to stop?