Jennifer Tosti-Kharas

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Hidden Brain · Passion vs. Paycheck · 22 Sep 2025 podcast

It was reported that he was homeless, so couldn't keep paying the rent in the East Village, and was in fact sleeping in the park on his piano.

So this is a terribly tragic, very poignant story of...

sort of ultimate sacrifice to do work that one loves sort of with very little concern about even meeting basic needs.

Absolutely.

So not everyone is lucky enough to find work in their calling to begin with.

Similarly, not everyone is able to sustain work in the calling.

And we can imagine that could be for a lot of reasons.

people might not be able to pursue their callings.

And research by Justin Berg and others has shown that this is a deeply psychologically aversive state filled with frustration, regret, depression, because it's not just I need a job, any job.

You sort of have this notion that it's really got to live up to this high sense that I have of what work should be.

Not such a good legacy, Shankar.

So Paul Gauguin today in the parlance of today should be canceled or we believe he should be canceled because he led a life of utter selfishness at the expense of his family.

He left his family behind in France when he went to Tahiti.

So first of all, he was no longer there to contribute.

And as we said, he was not doing so well by selling his art in Polynesia that he could send money home to them.

So another way to say this is he abandoned his family in France.

And to go one step further, by all accounts, I mean, Paul Gauguin is now a very kind of his legacy is somewhat conflicted by the fact that he pursued women that he painted and had, you know, by all accounts, affairs with them.

There's a story that his favorite child died once.

And he still did not return home.

And by all accounts, it sort of led to his downfall.

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