Tag Archives: Principles

What is Respect? Do we really understand respect enough to practice it properly ourselves. Are we really teaching respect to our children, or are we confusing it with admiration or fear of authority?  Growing up as the youngest of 5 siblings, people often said to me, “respect your elder.” I …

(This is the second part of a two-part series article on the true meaning of Ikigai.) Before we dive deep into the sources of Ikigai, our three Life Tasks, and the guiding principles of Ikigai, let’s first make an etymological survey of the word Ikigai. This would make the literal …