A very inspiring lecture by philosopher, writer, and speaker, Alan Watts. What would you do with your life if money was no object? For Timothy Schaefer the answer is simple.. Skateboard. COLORADO GETS BUCK - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Colorado-GETS-BUCK-Productions/114237278622077?ref=ts&fref=ts Theodore Schaefer - http://www.facebook.com/THEOnlyTimothyJ?ref=ts&fref=ts Colorado Gets Buck Film Edited by: Thomas Schaefer Camera: Sony EX1r I DO NOT OWN ANY RIGHTS TO THE AUDIO TRACK. THIS VIDEO IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. Transcript: What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situaion would you like? Let's suppose -- I do this often in vocational guidence of students. They come to me and say, "Well, uh, we're getting out of college, and we haven't 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 be writers. But as everybody knows you can't earn any money that way." Or another person says, "I'd like to live an out-of-doors life and ride horses." I said, "Do you want to teach at a riding school? 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 will 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 al