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Ikigai, roughly a reason to get up in the morning, has become famous through a four-circle diagram: what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what can sustain you, with your ikigai living where all four meet. The diagram is a western simplification of a richer Japanese idea, but it remains a genuinely useful mirror. This tool asks you to rate how much of your actual life touches each circle, then shows your honest overlap — and, just as usefully, the circle that is being starved. Full four-circle overlap is rare; two or three meeting is where most meaningful lives are actually lived.
Rate how much of your life touches each of the four ikigai circles — what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, what can sustain you — and see honestly where they overlap.
That is a description of this season, not a verdict on your life. Most people map several versions of their life before two circles meet. Feed whichever circle scored highest and re-map in a season.
The diagram is a western framing of a broader Japanese concept that also includes small joys, work and social ties. Treat it as a useful simplification for reflection, not an ancient formula.
Every year or two, or after big changes — new jobs, moves, losses, children leaving. Circles move with life; the healthy pattern is re-mapping, not chasing one perfect score.
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