Attain financial reward (What you can be paid for)

• When you decide to do freelance writing full-time, income stability is often the tradeoff. To hedge risk (as investors would say), save at least three months of living expenses saved up before quitting your day job — this will offer some relief during slow months and emergencies.
• Mak...

This is a way of life in Japan, where people work towards what they love doing, and do that with passion. Iki means life, and gai means ‘to be worthwhile’; loosely translated, Ikigai means the work, activity or hobby that gets an individual up in the morning.

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Pursuing specific goals can be a hindrance to reaching those objectives.

Kenneth Stanley, a computer scientist, hoped to show that by following ideas in interesting directions, algorithms can produce a diversity of results and solve problems. Thus, ignoring an objective can get you to the s...