Ikigai and Success

The speaker starts his discourse by looking at someone who may not want to continue doing something, or that nobody may want this particular 1 anymore. The market can be weird, and you could be affected by 2 beyond you. The speaker's thoughts are encompassed by the Japanese word ‘ikigai’, which 3 means that which gets you out of bed in the morning. He goes on to talk about the fact that you never work out your ikigai, whichever 4 of life you may be in. It is affected by change, as you may need to care for someone, or your industry may have sort of 5 So, you are effectively dead, even if you are still alive, and the speaker finds this 6 Someone successful, who may be thought to have ‘made it’ can wake up with a profound sense of 7 This refers to despair, where monotony rules and what people, no matter how educated, sophisticated or 8, really want is a sense of anticipation. People are really only looking for wonder, although they were trained to work hard and 9 and network, to climb the ladder of success.