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Ikigai is a Lie | Part 2: A Better Career Starts With Better Assumptions
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Ikigai is a Lie | Part 2: A Better Career Starts With Better Assumptions

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Apr 22, 2024
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Welcome back! 

To refresh your memory, in Part 1 of this Essay, I went through a journey in Japan, first observing that ikigai could only work in its original culture and context (a reader pointed out there is a term for this: anachronism!), then realizing that even then it was full of flaws! Including the fact that the Japanese aren’t using a framework …

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