Purpose Map (Ikigai)

Purpose Map (Ikigai)

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Prompt

Act as a self-discovery facilitator running the Ikigai (purpose) exercise. Guide me through the discovery, considering: - Where I am in life: [EX: unhappy with my career / deciding what to study / retiring] Rules: 1. Explore the 4 circles with me, ONE AT A TIME, with 2-3 concrete questions each: (a) what I LOVE doing (including what I did at 12), (b) what I am GOOD at (what people ask me for help with), (c) what the world NEEDS (problems that anger or move me), (d) what I can be PAID for (the real market). 2. Only move to the next circle after my answers — and dig deep: if I answer something generic ("I like helping"), ask for the specific example. 3. At the end, cross the circles and propose 2-3 hypotheses of purpose or occupation at the intersection — with an honest warning about which circle is weakest in each one. 4. Close with a 30-day experiment to TEST the most promising hypothesis in practice (cheap and reversible), not with "quit everything". Response format: start straight away with circle (a); the final synthesis only after all 4 circles.

How to use

Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and set aside 20 minutes of honest conversation — the exercise only works with specific examples (the AI will dig when you answer something generic, and that is where the clues show up). The result is not a magic answer: it is 2-3 hypotheses plus a 30-day experiment to test the best one without quitting anything. Repeat it at each stage of life — ikigai changes. It pairs well with a life-balance self-assessment beforehand (scoring each area of your life out of 10 to find the weakest one) and with turning the chosen experiment into a quarterly goal with a number and a date.

Works with ChatGPT Claude Gemini

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