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Ikigai: The Key Framework That Strengthens My Reason to Take Masters Study.
When I graduated in 2020, I knew I wanted to take a master's but I didn’t know why. I just really love studying, I love the ‘aha moment’ of understanding something new, and I know there are still so many things for me to learn from this world. So, in 2021 I just applied to the master’s program that resonates with me — and I failed obviously.
I simply thought that I failed because I didn’t have enough experience, or that my essay was not good enough. Well, both may be the reason why but later I realized that I did not have strong reasoning as to why I have to go studying a master’s program. So for my 2022 application, I kicked off the process by using the Japanese framework to discover my purpose in life.
Reaching an Ikigai may sound easy; you simply need to fill in the part of what you’re good at, what you love, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for. I did that in a blink when I was in my bachelor study as this was part of my Organisational Psychological Behaviour course back then — which also where I first discovered Ikigai, which also the time when I thought that Ikigai was just ‘another framework’.
Filling in the Ikigai framework was easy but the more you talk with yourself, the more you will ask yourself the question “Oh, really?”. At least for me, that was the case. In the end, I finalize my Ikigai framework in around 2 months after ‘working on it’ every day after working hours. I put an apostrophe on the word working on it because I didn’t literally just fill the circles — I did stuff that helped me figure out my Ikigai.
Figuring out Ikigai
Before you actually start on the journey of finding your Ikigai, let go of any thoughts on who you think you are, let go of any thoughts on how you want to be perceived by other people, and lastly you have to reset and be open to any possibilities. If you forgot to do this, or you find it hard along the way, just remember these three things and constantly reset all the thoughts and free your mind. Now, here’s how I do my Ikigai.
Breakdown the Ikigai.
So, there are 4 main circles when you’re filling in an Ikigai:
1. what you love
2. what you’re good at
3. what the…
