So best place to start for me is the idea of ikigai cause it has a nice Venn diagram to help people navigate their purpose (or at least a modern interpretation of this)
Note the actual concept of ikigai did not have Venn diagrams. Today its a great marketing draw-in to the Venn diagram (check out the podcast)
There is also the circle that is NOT in the diagram - “Something that Pays you NOT well” cause one lives in a dog eats dog world and the reality of work means people are drifting and not able to reflect on how the venn diagram above applies to them and their passions and missions, with then the opportunity to also get paid for it whether through work or through welfare, if they are fortunate to be able to get this.
“Taking agency” is what I refer to moving from drift to focus, but recently learnt about locus of control and its an amazing psychology concept that also gets into need for faith, and what I prescribe to - Humanism
These is also this Humanist chap called Maslow who created this brilliant hierarchy of needs
In his last few days /months/years of life Maslow added to this hierarchy with a 6th level called Meta motivation and lots of people aren’t aware of this. The wikipedia page linked to is a bit intense (probably a reflection of the waning relevance of Wikipedia). So Gemini Lite produced this Meta motiviation explained- and I think its great!
chatgpt did the analysis of combining these two models Need to Transcendence
Existing challenges in the UK include young people in the UK and NEETs
life is short so get going to find your purpose!