by Matthew Rehrl MD | Ikigai
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a loanword as “a word adopted or borrowed from another language.” Although I don’t quite see how one language-speaking people can borrow a word (after all, how do you give back a word?), certainly ikigai is a word that in certain...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Ikigai
The word ikigai (pronounced “eeky-guy”) is a loanword from Japanese, which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as: ikigai: a motivating force; something or someone that gives a person a sense of purpose or a reason for living.OED In kanji, it is represented as 生き甲斐....
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Ikigai
What is the appropriate pronunciation of the word ikigai? After reviewing several online sources, including the Oxford English Dictionary’s audio file pronunciation guide and multiple TED talks, I’m comfortable in saying that ikigai is pronounced “eeky-guy.”...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Ikigai
As I have mentioned in a previous post (I Am Blogging About Too Many Topics), although I feel good about blogging daily—after all, it’s not just a daily writing practice, it’s a daily publishing practice—I don’t like that my blog is unfocused. It’s not that I write...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Ikigai
Although most people say they hate drama, in my experience, most people seem to revel in it. For me, drama in every form (political, personal, financial, spiritual) is a creativity killer, and lately, thanks to CoVid, (or, more specifically, our culture’s response to...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Ikigai
In what may well be the philosopher and poet John O’Donohue’s best book, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, he points out one of the traps of a “successful” career: Those trapped in the bland middle region of respectability are lost without ever realizing...
