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  • 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,

  • Ah,

  • we're getting out of college and we have the faintest idea of 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 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 writers,

  • but as everybody knows you can't earn any money that way

  • One other person says I'd like to live an out of doors life and ride horses

  • and said he wanted to teach in a riding school

  • Ahhh! 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'll say to him, you do that!

  • and forget the money...

  • because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing

  • you'll 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 do go on doing things you don't like doing...

  • which is stupid!

  • it's 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... err... 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 would be able to get a good feel for whatever it is

  • so don't worry too much that's ... everybody is...

  • somebody is interested in everything

  • and anything you can be interested in, you'll find others as well

  • 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 and doing things you don't like

  • and to teach your children to follow the same track

  • see what we are doing...

  • is we're bringing up children and educating them

  • to live the same sort of lives we are living

  • in order that they may justify themselves and satisfaction in life by bringing up their children

  • to bring up their children to do the same thing

  • so it's all in retro-no-vomit it never gets there!

  • and so, therefore it's so important to consider this question,

  • what do I desire?

What makes you itch?

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