Monday, November 3, 2025

What's important: the reason you get up in the morning

 Yesterday, I was introduced to the concept of Iikigai

(生き甲斐) is a Japanese word meaning roughly:

“the reason you get up in the morning.”

It’s the idea of a personally meaningful, sustainable source of purpose based on four domains:

DomainCharacteristics
What you lovejoy, interests, intrinsic pull
What you’re good atstrengths, capabilities
What the world needscontribution, service
What you can be paid forvalue that is economically supported

The concept can be seen as a Venn diagram with four overlapping circles. Our ikigai sits at the center where all four circles overlap:

It would seem that - as orthopaedic surgeons - we have a great opportunity to realize Ikigai and the serenity and longevity that comes with it.

Wishing that you have a long, happy life and enjoy getting up and at it each morning.

Getting up in the morning.


Yellow-breasted Chat
Umtanum
2024

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Here are some videos that are of shoulder interest
Shoulder arthritis - what you need to know (see this link).
How to x-ray the shoulder (see this link).
The ream and run procedure (see this link)
The total shoulder arthroplasty (see this link)
The cuff tear arthropathy arthroplasty (see this link).
The reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (see this link).
The smooth and move procedure for irreparable rotator cuff tears (see this link)
Shoulder rehabilitation exercises (see this link).