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(bird chirping)
(zipper rubbing)
(material crinkling)
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- [Alan Watts] What would you like to do
if money were no object?
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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.
(ocean rushes)
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."
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Ah, 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.
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And after all, if you do really like what you're doing,
it doesn't matter what it is.
And you can eventually become a master of it.
- [Paraglider pilot] Yee-ha.
- [Alan Watts] It's the only way to become
a master of something: to be really with it.
(feet shushing)
Somebody's interested in everything.
And anything you can be interested in,
you'll find others who are.
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And so, therefore,
it's so important to consider this question:
what do I desire?
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