Ikigai
The popular Western version of ikigai looks for the overlap between four things: what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for.
The framework asks four questions:
- What do you love?
- What are you good at?
- What does the world need?
- What can you be paid for?
Work that answers all four tends to feel extremely meaningful. Not many people find it, and you don't have to, but the questions are still useful for noticing what's missing and what you might change.