Why Retirement Is a Flawed Concept
While we think of retirement as the golden age of golf greens and cottage docks, guess what they call retirement in Okinawa?
They don’t. They don’t even have a word for it. Literally nothing in
their language describes the concept of stopping work completely.
Instead, one of the healthiest societies in the world has the word ikigai (pronounced
like “icky guy”), which roughly translates to “the reason you wake up
in the morning.” It’s the thing that drives you most.
To put it another way: We don’t actually want to retire and do nothing. We just want to do something we love.
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