<div dir="ltr">Daniel! I very much enjoyed the time we had to connect and look forward to continuing co-creation of opening more space . . . everywhere </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:26 PM Daniel Mezick via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div>Greetings,</div><div><br></div><div>I plan to enjoy WOSONOS this weekend, by interacting with all who elect to be there. </div><div><br></div><div>I came across this Japanese word recently; it describes how I feel about working in Open Space. </div><div><br></div><div>Learning this word helped me to more fully understand my motivations around this:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Ikigai</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> (生き甲斐, pronounced </span><small style="font-size:11.9px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif"></small><span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Japanese" title="Help:IPA/Japanese" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">[ikiɡai]</a></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">) is a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank">Japanese</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> concept that means "a reason for being." The word "ikigai" is usually used to indicate the source of value in one's life or the things that make one's life worthwhile.</span><sup id="gmail-m_4777530223509362455cite_ref-:1_1-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai#cite_note-:1-1" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none" target="_blank">[1]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> The word translated to English roughly means "thing that you live for" or "the reason for which you wake up in the morning."</span><sup id="gmail-m_4777530223509362455cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none" target="_blank">[2]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> Each individual's ikigai is personal to them and specific to their lives, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(ethics)" title="Value (ethics)" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank">values</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief" title="Belief" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank">beliefs</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">. It reflects the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-realization" title="Self-realization" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank">inner self</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> of an individual and expresses that faithfully, while simultaneously creating a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_state" title="Mental state" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank">mental state</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> in which the individual feels at ease. Activities that allow one to feel ikigai are never forced on an individual; they are often spontaneous, and always undertaken willingly, giving the individual satisfaction and a sense of meaning to life.</span><sup id="gmail-m_4777530223509362455cite_ref-:1_1-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai#cite_note-:1-1" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none" target="_blank">[1]</a></sup><br><div>
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