Ikigai

Mm-hmm.

And then also having moments where you're sitting w- you know, with yourself with a pen and paper and trying to clarify, what am I really offering? Like, what is at the heart of what I want? And, um, I reference this kind of ikigai concept that I think many people are familiar with, but if you're not, it's like a Japanese concept of, like, what is at the intersection of what you're good at, what you enjoy, what people come to you for, what the world needs, and, and kind of at the intersection, in theory, is sort of, like, what you should be offering.

Mm-hmm.

So I think once you kind of, like, figure it out, that's step one, is like, what can I actually offer and present to people that I think that they might pay for?

Hopefully in the name of service to others.

And you even bring in one of my favorite Japanese concepts called Ikigai.

What happens to the person who true self within that kind of a framework that you paint in the book still doesn't quite find the market demand that they would like? How does that person survive? And I mean, maybe if you want, you can first backtrack a little and put us into that framework, paint it for us what the actual framework would be to become AI natives as individuals.

I think that would have been the better question that I should have asked.

It can be served like a co-pilot in these endeavors.

Once we are aware that these are all areas that we really need to be able to orient ourselves around, then AI can help with that.

And yes, in the Ikigai, it is very much about where do you really find your passion? Where is the market something that you can actually be valuable to others with? And the third thing is something that you can be really good at.

And I think I personally believe that AI is creating an economy that is much more forgiving to people that might at the moment find the things that they are passionate about and they are excellent at, they might not find an economic viability with.

I mean, you have to like what you do and people need it.

There is a Japanese concept called Ikigai.

I don't know if you've heard of it.

It's basically when you have to find the sweet spot between what people need, what people are ready to pay for and what you are good at and what people can obtain from that.

Yeah.

But Kintsugi looks kind of at the Ikigai part as well, and just our experiences, our personal identity, and what has brought us to where we are, and all of us have things that we have gone through that make us who we are.

And a lot of times we don't want to look at the bad things, the hard things, but it actually is what gave us the resiliency, what made us who we are, and it's actually really beautiful, and that's what made us connect with other human beings that are going through the same things.

We're able to give back to people because they're going through the same things.

On this episode of the Ikigai Tribe podcast, I welcome back my good friend, clinical psychologist and author, Professor Daiki Kato, to talk about his new book, Beyond Myself 8, Eight Powers to Navigate Myself.

Daiki wrote this book with his colleagues, Professor Mihoko Tsurita and Associate Professor Aya Futamura.

Daiki has been a regular guest on the Ikigai Tribe podcast, appearing on episode 47 and 107.

On both episodes, we talked about a psychological concept he coined called rolefulness.

Welcome back to the podcast, Daiki.

There you go.

That's

the Ikigai connection.

Another key is to have purpose.

part of what the Okinawans again call Ikigai, and what the Nicoyans who live on the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica, another blue zone, call Plan de Vida, which literally translates from Spanish as life plan, but culturally is interpreted as soul's purpose, or basically the reason why I wake up in the morning.

Apparently knowing your sense of purpose and being committed to it and fulfilled by it is worth up to seven extra years of life expectancy.

Another key, unsurprisingly, less stress.