Project-Based Existence in an Ikigai Life

The popular Venn diagram in use today was actually never even part of Ikigai. It was created by a Spanish astrologist named Andres Zuzunaga. Marc Winn, an innovation consultant, then married the Venn diagram with the Japanese concept of Ikigai, and it just took off from there.

But where did Ikigai itself come from? The earliest attribution I could... See more