{"id":5005,"date":"2021-01-19T19:44:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T19:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2021-04-06T19:51:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T19:51:57","slug":"ikigai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/?p=5005","title":{"rendered":"Ikigai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ikigai (\u751f\u304d\u7532\u6590) is a Japanese concept that means &#8220;a reason for being.&#8221; It is similar to the French phrase Raison d&#8217;\u00eatre. Everyone, according to Japanese culture, has an ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self. Such a search is important to the cultural belief that discovering one&#8217;s ikigai brings satisfaction and meaning to life.[1] Examples include work, hobbies and raising children.[2]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5007\" src=\"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ikigai-1024x968.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ikigai-1024x968.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ikigai-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ikigai-768x726.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ikigai.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><em>[1] Mathews, Gordon (1996). What Makes Life Worth Living?: How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds. University of California Press.<br \/>\n[2] Sone, Toshimasa; Nakaya, Naoki; Ohmori, Kaori; Shimazu, Taichi; Higashiguchi, Mizuka; Kakizaki, Masako; Kikuchi, Nobutaka; Kuriyama, Shinichi; Tsuji, Ichiro (2008). &#8220;Sense of Life Worth Living (Ikigai) and Mortality in Japan: Ohsaki Study&#8221; (PDF). Psychosomatic Medicine. 70 (6): 709\u2013715. ISSN 0033-3174. doi:10.1097\/PSY.0b013e31817e7e64. Retrieved 2016-03-12.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ikigai (\u751f\u304d\u7532\u6590) is a Japanese concept that means &#8220;a reason for being.&#8221; It is similar to the French phrase Raison d&#8217;\u00eatre. Everyone, according to Japanese culture, has an ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self. Such a search is important to the cultural belief that discovering one&#8217;s ikigai brings satisfaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[777,801,937,849],"tags":[999,1000,1001],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching","category-education","category-health","category-training","tag-ikigai","tag-japanese","tag-venn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5011,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/5011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}