This Gets Me Motivated About Life
THE DIRTY ARMY: Nik, have you ever heard of Alan Watts? He is a philosopher and a writer from Britain. He published this stuff back in the 60′s and I haven’t been able to stop listening to it. He really motivates me on life and since I started reading his books, my life has changed for the better. I keep improving on my life daily because of what he says. Wanted you to listen to this and see what you think? He has a great point and it all makes sense.
I dig it.- nik
I love this, I really do, but I have questions about it. If I were to spend my life doing what I really love to do, then I would be travelling to different historical sites all over the world and seeing new things with my son. It doesn’t make sense to me, the way he talks about it, because how would I afford to do that, if I weren’t working this job that I don’t like? How would I pay for my house, food, clothes, by just doing what I really loved to do?
He states “if money was no object”. i think you misunderstood
Don’t worry about the money. It will come to you in away that is unexpected.
Before you chose the job that you don’t like you would have focused on what you want to do and worked to get to that point. Sounds like you could be a museum worker or history teacher/professor. Still to this day, you can start working toward your goal. Sacrifices would be necessary.
Listen to Alan’s other talks about society and youths’ choices in society.
If travel is really your interest then you won’t need to waste money on a fancy house or nice clothes.
You can do a blog and get hotels to sponsor, you could write a book about different amazing historical sites and best places to go and stay, you could write sample articles about places you’ve been and submit to travel magazines, perhaps leading to future paid gigs. Just a few ideas …. But many more where those came from.
HE GOT THIS FROM OFFICE SPACE……………….I TELL YOU WHAT I’D DO MAN…………TWO CHICKS AT THE SAME TIME MAN!!
Great post
so awesome, thanks for sharing this!! watched it twice just because i sat there like wow lol
Thanks 4 posting that! That was beautiful!!!
Thank you , that had to be one of the most insightful things i ha’ve listened to in awhile.
He sounds like a hippy to me. In the real world money makes the world go round.
Right, and you can make ‘real money’ doing what you love… I do.
Did he say, “it’s all retch and no vomit?”
Wow how original. I’d never heard of this idea before. I’m gonna drop out of law school and become a porn producer.
exactly..how original. people afford such romantic notions to these sentiments. this is an absolutely ridiculous philosophy to live by. how about living by the idea that hard work will provide you with the opportunity to do the things that you love to do. please.. any one of you dipshits that is responding to this, thinking of what a wonderful existence you are about to embrace by quitting your job and swimming with dolphins, let us know how that works out for you. your personal reality is defined by the collective perception of that reality. as sad as it sounds, that means you have to play by the rules of the game, or…you lose
Money is merely and object given a value by our mind but in reality its just paper.
No it’s just numbers
I dig it too, thanks for sharing.
This is hippy bullshit. Sounds great but the reality would be a society of aimless bums painting pictures of sun sets. To everyone who thinks this is “Inspirational”, quit your job and surf for the rest of your life. See where that ends up.
Meh. Carpe diem. What color is your parachute? What do you want to be when you grow up? I sound my yawp. I took the road less traveled. Blah blah. Oh wait, my rent is due, I got to take care of my sick mother, my kid needs clothes and books for school and a hurricane just turned my home into beach front property. At some point we grow up and face the hard realities of adulthood. Finding a balance between what we love to do and what we have to do. Who doesn’t yearn for more freedom in their life? Interesting that he was a famous Far East scholar of Buddhism, a religion that advises suppressing the ego in favor of compassion for and service to others. That attachment to things, emotions, desires and even ones own identity is what fundamentally leads to suffering. His philosophy seems a little immature and narcissistic to me but will certainly has
Meh. Carpe diem. What color is your parachute? What do you want to be when you grow up? I sound my yawp. I took the road less traveled. Blah blah. Oh wait, my rent is due, I got to take care of my sick mother, my kid needs clothes and books for school and a hurricane just turned my home into beach front property. At some point we grow up and face the hard realities of adulthood. Finding a balance between what we love to do and what we have to do. Who doesn’t yearn for more freedom in their life? Interesting that he was a famous Far East scholar of Buddhism, a religion that advises suppressing the ego in favor of compassion for and service to others. That attachment to things, emotions, desires and even ones own identity is what fundamentally leads to suffering. His philosophy seems a little immature and narcissistic to me but will certainly have an appeal.
mind = blown
I have always felt this way, but unfortunately there is nothing I can do about it. I work from home taking care of other people’s children, and while I love certain aspects of my situation and the children I care for, I have created a very isolating existance for myself. It is a vicious circle that I am constantly going in, I can’t quit because I have family members who co-signed for my home and it would be unfair of me to let my choices affect thier lives. I have been divorced for several years, my children are grown and live on thier own now, and because of my work schedule I have lost contact with friends over the years. When the children leave in the evenings, I go in my room and watch TV. Sometimes I get very depressed, have even felt suicidal at times. However, I get up every day and do what needs to be done, there’s just nothing to look forward to. I don’t really don’t even have a life, I am just existing. Please don’t let this happen to you.
You guys are missing the point. The point isn’t to just drop what you’re doing and do what you like. The idea is to stop using money to motivate your dream. Once you’re out of school and have a wife, kid, mortgage it’s damn near impossible as you’re already stuck.
did you really expect anyone here to actually understand such a simple concept?
Books, you’ll wonder where they’ve been all your life Nik!
Love how this is the most superficial website.. Yet sometimes we get stuff like this and nik says ‘i dig it’.. Its hard to both be a hippy and also paper chase and hire escorts and hunt for +2s… But I dig it too
It’s just an intelligent repost of “Fight Club”. Same idea’s put into different words.