Finding purpose isn’t an easy task.
Jay Shetty has extensively talked about the topic of passion, purpose, and fulfillment publicly.
I studied these topics for more than four years and applied them to my life.
We spend two-thirds of our lives working. It’s crucial to find fulfillment in what we are doing
Jay Shetty’s most simplified methods for finding passion and living on purpose are :
- Ikigai: Reason for Being (Japanese model)
- Dharma: Eternal purpose (Indian Sanskrit)
While I don’t think that the Ikigai model works for someone looking to change direction in life, I believe that the Dharma model solves this issue.
The Ikigai model assumes you know what you’re passionate about, which isn’t the case for most people.
The Dharma model states that eternal purpose lives in the intersection of three pillars: Passion, compassion, and Expertise. Your eternal purpose is at the meeting of these three.
I found the reasoning behind it fascinating, and here is what I’ve learned from Jay Shetty.
Passion
According to Jay Shetty, people either are passionate about a lot of things at the same time or feel that they don’t have any passion at all.
It’s a problem because they don’t take baby steps to find passion.
Instead of starting from the teenage state of passion, start like a baby and investigate your curiosity.
Find your interests, connect to passion, and afterward, find your purpose.
What are you curious about?
Compassion
Passion needs compassion to become a purpose.
A simple way to find a path to connect to a purpose when you don’t know your passion is to use your compassion.
You know your compassion; you know people’s pain. Shift your mindset to become willing to ease people’s problems.
What do you think people need help with?
What am I curious about? what are you drawn to,
Expertise
During my work around purpose, I advise people to connect to their inner gifts, nurture them and identify the skills required to add value to people and build a service around them.
Shetty thinks that if you find your passion and know the problem, you can solve it. But, people aren’t noticing you; it’s a sign that you need to invest more in your expertise and growth online and offline.
Passion isn’t good enough; you have to invest in becoming skilled at it. “I wasn’t born a monk or good at social media,” He said
On the flip side, if you know your expertise, think about how it could help people and turn into a passion.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”— Einstein
Find your element!