Ikispiration?

There’s a good video from Great Big Story (link below, skip to 2:00). When interviewing the inventor Dr Yakamats, they bring up the Thomas Edison quote “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Is that your secret?”
Yakamats responds with what’s translated into English as, “No, the secret is Ikispiration.” I haven’t found that word so I don’t know the context. Does anyone know what word or play on words he’s trying to make.

2 comments
  1. Probably a play on ikiru, to live 生きるand inspiration. Ikispiration since he was talking about changing his (living) environment for inspiration.

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