From the course: Planning Your Career and Your Life
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What is a life purpose?
From the course: Planning Your Career and Your Life
What is a life purpose?
- What is your life purpose? And this is not the same question as what's your ideal job or what are your hobbies. So as well as something that you enjoy and you're good at and you get paid for, your life purpose includes something that makes a difference and adding this fourth circle gives us something that's sometimes known as the ikigai. So can we find something that fulfills all four of these circles? Now you don't have to have all four. You could make a difference without making any money, but I think you definitely need to enjoy it and you need to be good at it. So if you've got something that you make a difference to that you enjoy and you're good at, that's your life purpose. Although to be sustainable, it probably needs to generate some money for you and also if it's your best source of money, then that's what you're going to focus on and ideally, you'd be focusing on your life purpose. Now, there is one more…
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Which job would be best?24s
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The three circles2m 49s
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What is a life purpose?1m 42s
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How to find your life purpose6m 45s
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Why computers can't help4m 38s
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Which subject area: Analysis4m 27s
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Which subject area: People6m 29s
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If you can't get the job you want3m 49s
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