Summary of Books I have read!

  Context: I felt that a recent best seller book I read on Ikigai confused the core concept with many other overlapping topics. It also failed to expand the core topic. So, this web research was to understand the concept clearly in isolation and then appreciate its overlap with other topics. My conclusion is that one does not need to go beyond the Venn diagram of Ikigai to appreciate the core concept here. I personally have worked on this diagram for the self for the last ten years, and have found it quite useful in self exploration and self realization. I was hoping to get into more depth on this topic Ikigai, and even after this web research, I would say that there is not much clarity beyond these four circles communicate. However, I would understand the attempt by people to define a set of principles around Ikigai to make it more marketable.  Here again, I found different definitions of these principles, but I can be compassionate with those attempts. One particular definit...