Use Your Gifts

Ikigai is when you know the world will value what you bring uniquely to it and will pay you for it. It's also where your passions overlap with what you're good at. When all of those things come together, and you can get paid for it as well, and it's a benefit to society, then amen, go for it. That's what your true authentic self should be able to get to. If it's not there, it means you still have to do more work in order to get there. You might have to go down certain pathways in order for you to find yourself in the place you eventually want to be, in your absolute authenticity. Don't be surprised when you have surprises along the way, like having a TV show. I never thought I was going to have a TV show, and then it came about, and now we're already talking about season 3. There are many things I never thought I was going to become, like a music theorist. It was when I realized that geometry was the music we experience with our eyes. Therefore, in order to understand geometry better, I had to get a really strong grasp on music. I started going down the path of music and then realized there's a way to tune music that is absolutely coherent with the geometry itself in a more significant way.