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1 | combinations | lacking | icon | combi. name | alt. combi. names | description (context) | syllogism | examples | |||||
2 | 1 | SKILL | what your SKILL is | - | |||||||||
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4 | 2 | LOVE | SKILL | money, need | recreation | passion, hobby | Work that you love & are good at, but it does not pay and few people need it = recreation | Can you enjoy [recreation] without people's need? yes Can you enjoy [recreation] and not get paid? yes | video games (for most non-pro gamers) | ||||
5 | 3 | NEED | SKILL | love, money | charity | charitable work, sacrificial charity | work that you can do and that people need but it does not pay and you do not love doing it | Can you be skilled at [charity] others need and not get paid for it? - yes, if you are serving people who can't pay, ex. the poor, the startups, the pro-bonos Can you be [charitable] without loving it? Yes, you can do such work for other reasons such as self-importance, feeling of duty, or responsibility. | charity that you don't enjoy | ||||
6 | 4 | MONEY | SKILL | love, need | joyless career | a job, joyless job, materialistic job | Lack of love means difficult to continue doing. Lack of need means limited impact. Work that you can do and that pays money = joyless job | Can you have a [materialistic job] that you do not love? - Ha, yes! Can you have a [materialistic job] doing things people do not need? - Yes, the market is not perfectly efficient, jobs can be artificially created for inter-company political reasosn, for example. Government are notorious for artificially creating government jobs. | a job that you just do for money, without enjoyment. i.e. Skilled investment banker, but doesn't enjoy the job. | ||||
7 | 5 | NEED | MONEY | SKILL | love | soulles job | profession, joyless career | Fulfills everything but you don't love it= good job you don't love | Can you have a [dull profession] that you do not live? Yes | a good job for most people but you don't enjoy it. | |||
8 | 6 | NEED | LOVE | SKILL | money | philanthropy | passionate philanthrophy, charity, dream job that doesn't pay | Fulfills everything except money. Meaningful work/job but without monetary rewards = philanthropy or charity. Without money, difficult to continue long-term. | Can you work on [philanthropy] that doesn't earn money? Yes | a personally meaningful charity but doesn't make money. i.e. dentist volunteering in poor neighborhoods. Meaningful but difficult to devote full-time due to lack of money. | |||
9 | 7 | LOVE | what you LOVE | - | |||||||||
10 | 8 | NEED | LOVE | skill, money | volunteering | calling, contribution, challenging benefaction, difficult charity | Work that you love & serves others, but it does not pay and it's difficult = difficult charity, sacrifice? | Can you have a [challenging contribution] without skill? Yes. Can you have a [challenging contribution] without earning money? Yes, charitable type of work. | a charity you enjoy but lack money and skills to do it. i.e. Want to help cleaning up plastic waste but don't have the money or knowledge on how to do it. | ||||
11 | 9 | MONEY | LOVE | skill, need | pet project | profitable hobby, gig, illegal hobby, malicious hobby, purportless job, selfish profession, selfish career, self improvement | work that you love, and makes money. But you may not be skilled at it, and doesn't help many people. Pays money but doesn't help many people | Can you have a [self-centric job] without skill? Possible... Can you have a [self-centric job] doing things people do not need? Yes, useless jobs or criminal activities | you can make money doing this but you're not good at it, and it doesn't help many others. i.e. mediocre tobacco industry lobbyist. Another example, drug dealers? | ||||
12 | 10 | NEED | MONEY | LOVE | skill | challenging mission | mission, challenging profession, aspiration, difficult mission | fullfills everything but lacks skill, which makes it difficult. | Can you have a [challenging mission] without skill? Yes, that's why it's challenging. | great job that you love but you aren't good at it. i.e. Love doing design, possibly can get paid and helps others but not be skilled at it. | |||
13 | 10 | SKILL | MONEY | LOVE | need | unmet potential | creativity, great job with limited impact, good job with limited impact, underutilized career, underutilized potential | fulfills everything except serving people's needs, which means limited impact on society. | Can you have [unmet potential] doing things people do not need? Yes | everything except fulfilling the needs of others. i.e. Commercial fishing of whales - serving few customers to get paid but bad for most people/ecosystem. | |||
14 | 12 | NEED | what people NEED | - | |||||||||
15 | 13 | MONEY | NEED | skill, love | hustle | detestable job, short term hustle | what you do purely for money and other's needs, but you are not skilled at it and you don't love it = a job you hate, hustle | Can you have a [hustle] without being skilled at it? Yes, that's why it's a hustle. Can you have a [hustle] that you do not love? Yes, people often do this when just going after money. | something you do because the world needs it and pays for it, but you lack the love nor skills. i.e. invester that hates investing and loses money. = short term.. | ||||
16 | 14 | MONEY | what makes MONEY | - | |||||||||
17 | 15 | NEED | SKILL | LOVE | MONEY | - | purpose | reason for being | |||||
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