Find Your Music Team

Sep 28, 2026

Have you ever heard someone say something and felt an almost immediate response: Yes. That.

Perhaps they put words to something you had been thinking but hadn’t quite been able to articulate. Maybe you encountered an idea that made you curious, heard a piece of music that moved you unexpectedly or watched someone doing something and thought, for reasons you couldn’t entirely explain, I’d like to do that.

Something resonated.

I find that word interesting because resonance isn’t only about what we hear. It’s about what happens when something outside us meets something within us and creates a response.

We’ve spent the past few weeks thinking about everything that comes at us from the outside. We’re shown things “for us.” We encounter formulas that promise results. People offer advice. We search for the right answer. There is an extraordinary amount we can learn from all of it, and I certainly don’t want less access to ideas, expertise or other people’s experiences.

But perhaps there is another part of the process that deserves our attention: noticing our response.

What draws me in? What makes me want to know more? What keeps returning to my mind long after I first encountered it? What gives me energy? What challenges me in a way that feels worth pursuing? Those responses don’t always arrive with an explanation attached.

Sometimes we dismiss them precisely because they don’t seem sensible enough. We tell ourselves something is impractical, too late, too difficult or simply not what someone like us is supposed to want. At other times, we may barely notice the response at all because we’re so busy evaluating what we think we should be interested in.

But what if we became more curious about the things that resonate?

That doesn’t mean treating every feeling or impulse as an instruction. Resonance isn’t proof that something is right for us, any more than someone else’s recommendation is. We still need judgment. We still need evidence. We still have responsibilities, limitations and consequences to consider. But resonance is information too.

Perhaps knowing ourselves helps us become better at recognizing it. When we understand more about our strengths, values, interests and the things that give us a sense of meaning, we begin to notice patterns in what captures our attention and why. And sometimes those patterns can surprise us.

We may discover that something we have always treated as a passing interest has been showing up for years. We may realize that the moments when we feel most engaged have something in common. We may notice that a possibility we keep dismissing refuses to disappear.

None of that tells us exactly what to do next. But it may tell us where to become curious. That, for me, is part of what it means to Find Your Music.

Your Music isn’t a set of instructions telling you how to live. It isn’t one perfect passion you have to discover or a single path you’re supposed to follow. It is the unique composition of strengths, values, interests, experiences and possibilities that makes you who you are, and the ways those things can find expression in your life.

The world has a great deal to teach us, so I hope we never stop listening to it. We can explore widely, learn from people who know more than we do, try things, change our minds and keep discovering possibilities we never knew existed.

But while we’re listening to everything out there, perhaps we can also become a little more attentive to what happens in here.

Because sometimes, something resonates. And when it does, it might be worth listening.