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“The Little Book of Ikigai”

16 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

An ex-colleague at my previous school gave me this book, presumably because of my affinity with Japanese culture. I didn’t really enjoy reading it the first time. I think I expected an exploration of how modern people could find ikigai in their wret...

Finding Your Ikigai

18 Jan 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei

Wrote the following notes for my graduating students! Job-hunting. It is a scary prospect, isn’t it? The entire process of finding a job that you think you will like is full of challenges. Therefore, your English teachers have put together this workb...

The Culture Trap and How to Escape it

26 Feb 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Jaemoney

Recently, I’ve become much more aware of how our tribes influence us; and we have many tribes ranging from our families, to work colleagues, to gym buddies, to school friends, to foodies and everything else in-between. We all have a lot of tribes wit...

IKIGAI

16 Aug 2019 1 minute read 4 comments AlmeidaJunior

  How you can find your passion and pursue them?  How do we understand what we're passionate about ?   Today, I want to talk about a specific model. This model is a Japanese model called IKIGAI. The meaning  of IKIGAI is “a reason for being”. In oth...