Free · Four quadrants · No score
The Ikigai Exercise, answered in your own words.
Answer the four ikigai questions in lists you type yourself, five or more entries each. Three candidate Calling Statements are drafted from those entries alone. You pick one and have the last word.
Free and about 20 minutes. Start with no account; sign up free to see your statements.
What happens after you press start.
You can stop between any of the quadrants and pick up again in the same browser.
Fill the four quadrants
Five or more entries under each of the four titles, in your own words, with no account. Each quadrant has a few questions to write from if you stall. Nothing is typed in for you.
Pick and edit one
Make a free account and three candidate Calling Statements appear, drafted from your entries and nothing else. Pick the one that reads closest, then change any word. What you settle on is final.
Then the Mirror
The Omzoe Mirror comes next: 72 statements, about nine minutes, a self-reflection instrument, not a validated psychometric. Then your Compass Reading and a first 32-day aim.
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Nothing to pass. Four questions to answer.
The four-circle diagram most people know is, as the Reading Room piece on the word sets out, a Western invention. The Japanese sense is smaller and more ordinary: a reason to get up in the morning. The diagram still earns its place, because its four questions make a good interview.
So nothing here is scored or graded, and no type or job title comes out of it. Progress is a count toward five entries, never a percentage. What comes back is three candidate statements to react to, not a verdict, and you decide which one stands.
Questions about the exercise
- Is this a test, or a career assessment?
- The word test is fair for four questions, but nothing here is scored or graded. It is a self-reflection exercise, not an assessment, and it is not for hiring. No type or job title comes out of it. What you get is three sentences made from your entries, to read against what you meant.
- Does an AI write my answers, or choose for me?
- You write every entry. With a free account, a model drafts three candidates from them, and one whose key words are not in your entries is not shown. You choose one and edit it. With an account, the Omzoe Assistant can also ask you questions, proposing only from what you wrote; you add a proposal or leave it.
- Is it free, and when do I need an account?
- It is free. You can write all four quadrants without an account. The account, also free, comes in when you want to see your three statements, and what you wrote moves across with it. The Omzoe Mirror, your Compass Reading and your Aim Path are free too.
- Where do my entries go?
- Never sold or shared, and Omzoe never trains a model on them. On the free plan, the AI providers that write your Calling Statements and Reading may use what is sent to improve their models; a paid Omzoe plan uses only tiers that never do. With no account, they are tied only to this browser and deleted seven days after you start.
- What does ikigai actually mean?
- In the older Japanese sense, a reason to get up in the morning, as likely found in tending a garden or a standing coffee as in work. Nothing in it asks the thing to pay. The Reading Room piece linked below tells the rest.
The word, before the diagram
A short Reading Room piece, free to read: what the word means in Japanese, why the diagram is not the idea, and how Omzoe uses the four questions.
Not an exam. An interview in your words.
About twenty minutes for the four quadrants, with no account to begin. What comes back is three candidate Calling Statements drafted from your entries, and you choose which one stands.
Free and about 20 minutes. Start with no account; sign up free to see your statements.