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đź“ž My Ikigai
Hey everyone!
Sorry it’s been a while. But I’m still alive hahaha!
I want to share something with you that I’ve experienced this week.
As some of you may know I work as a pharmacist but I write absolutely nothing about pharmacy, and all about pattern recognition.
Now I’m on the verge of transitioning from pharmacy into computational neuroscience, and this week I journalled my thoughts about this transition.
It was quite a deep dive, and it did involve some questioning.
Questions emerged if I am taking a gamble on this, and if this really is for me.
It was something I couldn’t hold and had to let go on a piece of paper, taking up 3 pages, ending it with:
I wanted to be real:
Pharmacy is something very important to me, it has shaped my life and I firmly believe it is shaping my future career.
If I didn’t go into pharmacy and went straight into neuroscience, I probably would have been lost and didn’t experience the enjoyment of helping people.
So I felt pharmacy is the necessary chapter to forge a new path.
This was when I started drawing my Ikigai - my reason for being:
My Ikigai is (so far):
- Neuroscience
- Patterns
- Perspectives
- Music
- Storytelling
After writing that down, I felt at peace.
Amazed by the sheer integration of passions and skills forming into one calling.
It wasn’t just following my passion or finding my dream career..
It was more of who I am as a person, and in a more religious sense, who I am on God’s Earth.
By combining what I love, what I am good at, the problems that the world needs solving, and the skills I get paid for, it will turn my career life into more of a quest.
And I am attempting to live out this quest, by sharing content with you all, and delivering the value you deserve.
As always, thank you so much for the support!
I’ll see you next week!
Mark x
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