Unfortunately our education systems fail to produce people who know “why” they want to do what they want to do. Often you hear no more than superficial reasons like “I want to get rich”, “I want to travel the world”, …that obviously lack the substance to serve as a truly fulfilling goal in life. What are you passionate about? If you wake up 10 days in a row, wondering why you are currently doing what you do, then you haven’t found something that truely motivates you. Or it is time to move on. You see, life is to short, to spend your time doing things you don’t really feel like doing. Life is too short to fulfil other people’s expectations and not your own. Life is to short to never take a shot at your dreams. So lead the way.

1. Adapted from Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973)

2. STUDENTS COME TO ME
ALL THE TIME AND SAY:

3. STUDENTS COME TO ME
ALL THE TIME AND SAY:
„We‟re getting out of college
and we haven„t the faintest
idea what we want to do.“

4. SO I ALWAYS ASK
THE QUESTION...

5. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO
IF MONEY WERE NO OBJECT?

6. HOW WOULD YOU REALLY
ENJOY SPENDING YOUR LIFE?

7. WHAT DO YOU DESIRE?

8. WHAT DO YOU DESIRE?
WHAT MAKES YOU ITCH?

9. WHAT DO YOU DESIRE?
WHAT MAKES YOU ITCH?
WHAT SORT OF A SITUATION
WOULD YOU LIKE?

10. YOU SEE... AS A RESULT OF OUR
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM CROWDS
OF STUDENTS SAY:

11. YOU SEE... AS A RESULT OF OUR
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM CROWDS
OF STUDENTS SAY:
“We‟d like to be painters,
we‟d like to be poets,
we‟d like to be writers, ...

12. ... But as everybody knows
you can‟t earn any money that way.”

13. OR ANOTHER STUDENT SAYS:

14. OR ANOTHER STUDENT SAYS:
„I‟d like to live an out-of-doors
life and ride horses.”

15. OR ANOTHER STUDENT SAYS:
„I‟d like to live an out-of-doors
life and ride horses.”
I SAY: „You want to teach
in a riding school?“

16. LET’S GO THROUGH WITH IT:

17. LET’S GO THROUGH WITH IT:
WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT TO DO?

18. WHEN WE FINALLY GET
DOWN TO SOMETHING

19. WHEN WE FINALLY GET
DOWN TO SOMETHING
WHICH THE STUDENT SAYS
HE REALLY WANTS TO DO

20. WHEN WE FINALLY GET
DOWN TO SOMETHING
WHICH THE STUDENT SAYS
HE REALLY WANTS TO DO
I WILL SAY TO HIM:

21. YOU DO THAT

22. YOU DO THAT
AND FORGET THE MONEY

23. BECAUSE, IF YOU SAY THAT
GETTING THE MONEY IS THE
MOST IMPORTANT THING...

24. BECAUSE, IF YOU SAY THAT
GETTING THE MONEY IS THE
MOST IMPORTANT THING...
THEN YOU WILL SPEND
YOUR LIFE COMPLETELY
WASTING YOUR TIME

25. YOU’LL BE DOING THINGS
YOU DON’T LIKE DOING

26. YOU’LL BE DOING THINGS
YOU DON’T LIKE DOING
IN ORDER TO GO ON LIVING,
WHICH IS TO GO ON DOING
THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE DOING

27. WHICH IS STUPID

28. BETTER TO HAVE A SHORT
LIFE THAT IS FULL OF
WHAT YOU LIKE DOING

29. THAN A LONG LIFE SPENT
IN A MISERABLE WAY
BETTER TO HAVE A SHORT
LIFE THAT IS FULL OF
WHAT YOU LIKE DOING

30. AND AFTER ALL

31. AND AFTER ALL
IF YOU DO REALLY LIKE WHAT
YOU’RE DOING, IT DOESN’T
MATTER WHAT IT IS,

32. AND AFTER ALL
IF YOU DO REALLY LIKE WHAT
YOU’RE DOING, IT DOESN’T
MATTER WHAT IT IS,
YOU CAN EVENTUALLY
BECOME A MASTER OF IT

33. IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO BECOME
A MASTER OF SOMETHING...

34. IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO BECOME
A MASTER OF SOMETHING...
TO BE REALLY WITH IT

35. AND THEN YOU’LL BE ABLE
TO GET A GOOD FEE FOR
WHATEVER IT IS

36. AND THEN YOU’LL BE ABLE
TO GET A GOOD FEE FOR
WHATEVER IT IS
SO DON’T WORRY
TOO MUCH

37. ANYTHING YOU CAN
BE INTERESTED IN...

38. ANYTHING YOU CAN
BE INTERESTED IN...
YOU WILL FIND OTHERS WHO
ARE ALSO INTERESTED

39. BUT IT’S ABSOLUTELY STUPID
TO SPEND YOUR TIME...

40. BUT IT’S ABSOLUTELY STUPID
TO SPEND YOUR TIME...
...DOING THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE

41. BUT IT’S ABSOLUTELY STUPID
TO SPEND YOUR TIME...
...DOING THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE
IN ORDER TO GO ON
SPENDING MORE TIME

42. BUT IT’S ABSOLUTELY STUPID
TO SPEND YOUR TIME...
...DOING THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE
IN ORDER TO GO ON
SPENDING MORE TIME
DOING THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE,

43. ...AND TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN
TO FOLLOW IN THE SAME TRACK.

44. SEE, WHAT WE ARE DOING IS

45. SEE, WHAT WE ARE DOING IS
WE’RE BRINGING UP CHILDREN
AND EDUCATING THEM TO LIVE
THE SAME SORT OF LIVES WE
ARE LIVING

46. IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY
JUSTIFY THEMSELVES

47. IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY
JUSTIFY THEMSELVES
AND FIND SATISFACTION IN LIFE

48. IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY
JUSTIFY THEMSELVES
AND FIND SATISFACTION IN LIFE
BY BRINGING UP THEIR CHILDREN...

49. IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY
JUSTIFY THEMSELVES
AND FIND SATISFACTION IN LIFE
BY BRINGING UP THEIR CHILDREN...
TO BRING UP THEIR CHILDREN...

50. 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.

51. SO IT’S ALL RETCH, AND NO VOMIT

52. SO IT’S ALL RETCH, AND NO VOMIT
IT NEVER GETS THERE

53. AND SO,
THEREFORE

54. AND SO,
THEREFORE
IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO
CONSIDER THIS QUESTION:

55. WHAT DO I DESIRE?

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