Tim Tamashiro

Ikigai comes in two parts. They are half Ikigai and full Ikigai. Half Ikigai focuses on you: What do you love and what are you good at?

the full cycle of Ikigai: seeing how doing what you love, and what you’re good at, provides for the world and flows rewards back to you. As soon as you commit to your half Ikigai, you will begin to see benefits.

In the morning, when your alarm clock rings and you reach over with your eyes still closed, blindly smacking at the off button, are you waking up to merely survive the day? You deserve more than that

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all—the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”