Something interesting you learned recently

So... Getting up to take a piss?


There must be more to life than that.

 

Ha, well. There's a diagram with overlapping circles. Ikigai was in the middle where what you love, what makes money, what the world needs and what you're good at overlap.

 

I thought that would be harder to describe than it was

 

I've seen this before, never would have remembered the term though.

 

Seen those overlapping circle things for longer than a decade. Is that all based on that japanese concept? Or do we here simply have a similar without that specific name?

 

probably actually somewhere off to the left of all the circles, but close enough.

do you mean ikigai specifically, or just overlapping circles? overlapping circles like that are a venn diagram, which is used for all kinds of stuff. i've never seen the ikigai application for it before today though.

 

İkigai? What's it mean?

 

^ it's a japanese word that means "read the thread."

 

Do you like japanese chicks?

 

well that's quite the sudden change of subject. but yes, japan has some gorgeous women.

 

I've seen it used in the exact same way, for the exact same purpose.
I had the same with other japanese concepts. We have some kind of variation of it, usually without such a name/emphasizing on the concept itself.

 

The thing is, none is yours. That's the sad part of it.

 

Venn diagrams are often more practical, with quantifiable data. They are probably utilized most in statistics.

I think the Ikigai example is meant primarily as a clever inspirational thing.

 

There used to be a statue of Saint Alger at an earlier version of St. Paul's cathedral in London whose stone foot was used as an early unit of measurement, measuring at exactly 12 inches

I also learned many streets around St. Paul's are named after prayers because the clergy would intone prayers as they walked that took the length of the street to speak

(A colleague in our London office at work sent out a long firm wide email yesterday filled with interesting London history while the American offices were closed for the 4th of July. The cheeky bastard )

 

Cans have little plastic bags in them...

 

Of course they do

 

Know it all!

 

I actually didnt know that
I meant it more like..
Of course they do because the whole damn world is covered in plastic