Name: What if Money Was No Object? - Alan Watts
Uploaded: 2014-07-03T11:22:45.000Z
Duration: 3 min 10 s
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Sentences with would like

What do you desire? What makes you itch? What   sort of a situation would you like?

The imperative

Let’s suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students, they come to me and  say, well,   we’re getting out of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to  do.

To-infinitive

So I always ask the question, what would you like to do if   money were no object?  How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Well, it’s so amazing as a result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students  say well, we’d like to be painters,   we’d like to be poets, we’d like to be writers, but as  everybody knows you can’t earn any money that way.

Or another person says well, I’d  like to live an out-of-doors life and ride horses. I said you   want to teach in a riding  school? Let’s go through with it. What do you want to do?

When we finally got down to something, which the individual says he really wants to   do, I will say to him, you do that and forget the money, because,

if you say that getting the  money is the most important thing,   you will spend your life completely wasting your  time.

You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that   is to go on  doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid.

Better to have a short life that is full  of what you   like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

And after all, if you do really like what you’re doing, it doesn’t matter what it   is, you  can eventually turn it – you could eventually become a master of it.

It’s the only way to  become a master of something, to be really with it. And then you’ll   be able to get a  good fee for whatever it is. So don’t worry too much.

That’s everybody is – somebody is  interested in everything, anything you   can be interested in, you will find others will.

But  it’s absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don’t like, in order to go on  spending things   you don’t like, doing things you don’t like and to teach our children to  follow in the same track.

See what we are doing, is we’re bringing up children and educating   to live the same sort  of lives we are living.

In order that they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in  life by bringing up their children to bring up   their children to do the same thing, so it’s  all retch, and no vomit it never gets there.

And so, therefore, it’s so important to  consider this question, What do I desire?