Ikigai

Ikigai is a a state of mind. It gets driven by various aspects of life. An ideal Ikigai is a well balance of different aspects mentioned in the venn-diagram. Any skewness as I had depicted in the following diagram will lead the movement of middle point, hence imbalance in the thought process, and the life itself. Look at the two diagrams, It is nothing but the extension of "good work-life balance", where in Japanese have broken down the work life balance into sub-components.