You’ve been bamboozled. What you know about “Ikigai” is wrong — dead wrong. And it’s making you choose the wrong things in life. I hate to break it to you but, Ikigai is not the intersection of: ・what you love ・what you’re good at ・what the world needs ・and what …

This is what self-doubt sounds like in our heads: “What if I fail?” “Am I good enough to do this?” “What if I’m just wasting my time?” Over and over in your mind, these questions pop up like mosquitoes buzzing ‘round your ear, taunting you, keeping you up at night, …

Emi’s story Emi is a good friend of mine even back in my uni days. I remember she told me once that she had always dreamt of owning a cozy coffee shop in downtown Osaka with lines and lines of people stretching around the block. When we graduated we all …