Find Your Passion

Ikigai

Thilina Madushan
2 min readMay 29, 2021

Ikigai is a Japanese concept , “Iki” means “to live”, and “gai” means “realization of what one hopes for”. This concepts referring to having a direction or purpose in life.

Ikigai is a concept/ a framework/ a model ,It help to find our passion. This concept was came from Japanese culture, In 1966 Japanese psychiatrist of Mieko Kamiya published it on book of “On the Meaning of Life”.

How it works?

First we have to answering four questions :

What do
you LOVE?

The first part of the IKIGAI personality test will find out the kind of activities that make your heart beat and the kind of activities that you dislike. Don’t overthink, just go with your first instinct.

What are
you GOOD AT?

After that we’ll find out what you are good at. The second part of the IKIGAI test will search for your best skills, even if you don’t really enjoy using them, so keep an open mind when answering this part of the test.

What does the world
NEED from you?

The third part of the free IKIGAI test focuses on the knowledge you have or would like to have. After all, with proper school or training you could do anything you want to try and help the world.

What can you
get PAID for?

Our personality test contains 1000 jobs, and we have classified them according to personality types, required skills, desirable knowledge, and average payment. Therefore, the last part of the IKIGAI personality test will dynamically present the best jobs for you.

This definition and questions I got from https://ikigaitest.com/#pll_switcher and also they give facility to test your IKIGAI .

IKIGAI has graphical representation.It is more effective to get idea about own IKIGAI

Give answer to these questions and find your IKIGAI to live in your life.

“essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

— Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

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Thilina Madushan
Thilina Madushan

Written by Thilina Madushan

Software Engineering undergraduate at University of Kelaniya

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