The document discusses the first rule of Ikigai, which is to stay active and not retire. It provides several reasons for this rule: 1) For many people, their careers become their identity, and 56% have their careers end before being ready, often due to layoffs. 2) With Ikigai, the goal is to uncover who you already are and become it fully, rather than focus on a specific career path or ideal. 3) If you are exploring your gifts and sharing them with the world, there is no need to retire or be defined by a single career. The idea is to live and leave a legacy.
The document discusses the first rule of Ikigai, which is to stay active and not retire. It provides several reasons for this rule: 1) For many people, their careers become their identity, and 56% have their careers end before being ready, often due to layoffs. 2) With Ikigai, the goal is to uncover who you already are and become it fully, rather than focus on a specific career path or ideal. 3) If you are exploring your gifts and sharing them with the world, there is no need to retire or be defined by a single career. The idea is to live and leave a legacy.
The document discusses the first rule of Ikigai, which is to stay active and not retire. It provides several reasons for this rule: 1) For many people, their careers become their identity, and 56% have their careers end before being ready, often due to layoffs. 2) With Ikigai, the goal is to uncover who you already are and become it fully, rather than focus on a specific career path or ideal. 3) If you are exploring your gifts and sharing them with the world, there is no need to retire or be defined by a single career. The idea is to live and leave a legacy.
For most of us, our careers are important. In some ways and for some people they become their identity.
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The sad truth is 56% of
people over 50 will have their careers end before they are ready. Layoffs being the number one cause The Ikigai Guy
With Ikigai, our 'job' is not to
move up the corporate ladder or shape ourselves into some ideal we or the world projects we ought to be. Our ‘job’ is to uncover who we already are and become it fully.
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People often get stuck on the 'thing' they should be doing as opposed to the 'things' they should be exploring to experience Ikigai. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. said this about creativity that The Ikigai Guy applies... "Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.” The Ikigai Guy . If you are living or working to "experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow," there is no need to be owned by a career or to retire.
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“The purpose of life is to discover your gift; the work of life is to develop it, and the meaning of life is to give your gift away.”
David Viscott.
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If you are uncovering
your purpose, developing your gifts, and sharing them with the world, there is no need for 'retirement'. The Ikigai Guy
The Ikigai idea of
'Not Retiring' centers on living and leaving a legacy.