IKIGAI

Over the years, I have occasionally reflected on the Japanese concept illustrated below:

…all this with respect to my personal design philosophy, my life, and what others are making out there in the world. I have been living in the “good at something” and “what I love” categories. Only in the last 6 months have I been moving into the “paid for” category. For the most part, most of my ideas never leave my house, they live in the stacks of notebooks and sketchbooks that litter my studio space. “One day…” I say, I will make something out of them, start another company that can utilize an idea to change the world for the better. I estimate that I have almost 100 sketchbooks full of ideas and concepts, there has to be a good idea in there somewhere, right??

I try to separate myself from my own ideas, to become unbiased towards my own ideas. I know other founders and CEOs with eager philosophies, prophesying the merits of their organization’s offerings. The concept of PUSH in this way, to me, obliterates the truth or disingenuous flaw in their fruits. What disgusts me are tags of vanity draped over their ideas, uplift reputation instead of helping those in the community.

This is something that I constantly ponder and examine with my own ideas as well as other’s.