Why do I want to build a hostel?

Short answer: for the craic!

Long answer (buckle up!)

I’ll explain my desire using the Japanese concept of Ikigai - ‘reason for being’.

My Ikigai, building a hostel, is the overlap of these four motivating forces

I could also have used Victor Frankl’s theory of Logotherapy, which he outlines in ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’, but then I wouldn’t get to include that neat Venn Diagram. Whe…