The small thing that makes tomorrow morning worth turning up for, and the feeling of having one.

明天早上值得起来的那一点小事。就这么大。

Mieko Kamiya, a psychiatrist at the Nagashima Aiseien leprosy sanatorium, wrote Ikigai ni tsuite in 1966. She split it in two: the thing itself, and the feeling of the one who has it.

神谷美惠子，一九六六年写的。她把它分成两半：那件事，和有那件事的感觉。

Name one thing you did today that you would have done with nobody watching. Small and domestic counts.

今天做过的事里，挑一件没人看也会做的。够小也算。

The four-circle diagram is not hers and not Japanese. A Spanish astrologer, Andres Zuzunaga, drew it as a purpose diagram; Marc Winn relabelled the centre ikigai on his blog in 2014. It adds two tests Kamiya never set — that it must pay, and that the world must need it — and most ordinary lives fail them.

那张四个圆的图不是她画的，是二〇一四年一个博主贴上去的。它多加了两条：要能挣钱，要世界需要。她没这么说过。按那两条算，谁还合格？