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.
Another person says, well I'd like to live an out-of-doors life and ride horses.
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 could eventually become a master of it.
It's the only way to become a master of something — to be really with it.
Somebody's interested in everything.
And anything you can be interested in you'll find others who are.
But it's absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don't like in order to go
on doing things you don't like, and to teach your children to following the same track.
See, what we're doing is we're bringing up children and educating them to live the same
sort of lives we're 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 no vomit — it never gets there!
And so, therefore, it's so important to consider this question — what do I desire?