How a Japanese Concept Gives You “A Reason to Live”

Jake Lyda
4 min readOct 3, 2017
What’s your life purpose? Photo by Dylan Hikes on Unsplash

(This is an in-depth analysis of an article by Laura Oliver on Business Insider.)

Ikigai. Sounds like an Asian dress, but in reality it is a Japanese concept that cannot be directly translated to English. Indirectly, it is the exact definition of what my non-fiction writings on Medium alludes to: The idea of having a purpose in life.

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Jake Lyda

I write about whatever interests me in the current moment: sports, entertainment, creative writing, lifestyle, etc. I'm tired of not being who I am.