What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like? 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" 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 the 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 say you want to teach in a riding school?—— Ur..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 are doing It doesn't really matter what it is You can 't eventually turn it-you could eventually become a master of it. The only way to become a master of something is to be really "with it". And then you will be able to get a good fee for whatever it is So you don't worry too much That’s everybody is, somebody is interested in everything Anything you can be interested in you will find out very soon 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 Here what we are doing Is we are bringing up children and educating them To live the same sort of lives we are living And so therefore it's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?
[00:00.21]What do you desire? [00:02.64]What makes you itch? [00:05.60]What sort of a situation would you like? [00:11.40]Let's suppose,I do this often in vocational guidance of students [00:16.20]They come to me and say [00:17.68]Well, "we’re getting out of college [00:20.39]And we have the faintest idea what we want to do" [00:24.36]So I always ask the question: [00:26.87]"What would you like to do if money were no object? [00:30.84]How would you really enjoy spending your life?" [00:36.60]Well,it's so amazing as the result of our kind of educational system [00:38.97]Crowds of students say well we'd like to be painters [00:42.96]We'd like to be poets [00:43.71]We'd like to be writers [00:44.66]But as everybody knows you can't earn any money that way! [00:47.93]Or another person says well [00:49.80]I'd like to live an out-of-doors life and ride horses“ [00:52.23]I say you want to teach in a riding school?—— [00:56.16]Ur..Let's go through with it [00:58.27]What do you want to do? [00:59.89]When we finally got down to something [01:01.64]Which the individual says he really wants to do [01:03.95]I will say to him 'You do that! [01:06.79]And forget the money! [01:10.47]Because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing [01:17.14]You will spend your life completely wasting your time! [01:21.73]You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living [01:24.92]That is to go on doing things you don't like doing! [01:27.60]Which is stupid! [01:30.58]Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing [01:34.77]Than a long life spent in a miserable way [01:39.75]And after all,if you do really like what you are doing [01:42.52]It doesn't really matter what it is [01:44.78]You can 't eventually turn it-you could eventually become a master of it. [01:48.81]The only way to become a master of something is to be really "with it". [01:52.59]And then you will be able to get a good fee for whatever it is [01:56.49]So you don't worry too much [01:58.40]That’s everybody is, somebody is interested in everything [02:02.49]Anything you can be interested in you will find out very soon [02:05.86]But it's absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don't like [02:10.24]In order to go on spending things you don't like,doing things you don't like [02:13.38]And to teach our children to follow in the same track [02:17.52]Here what we are doing [02:19.80]Is we are bringing up children and educating them [02:22.23]To live the same sort of lives we are living [02:39.28]And so therefore it's so important to consider this question: [02:44.83]What do I desire?
