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"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? 0:34
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.
0:47 Or another person says well, I'd like to live
an out-of-doors life and ride horses. I said you want to teach in a riding school? Let's
go through with it. What do you want to do? 0:58
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,
1:11 if you say that getting the money is the most
important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time.
1:21 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. 1:30
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
1:37 And after all, if you do really like what
you're doing, it doesn't matter what it is, you can eventually turn it -- you could eventually
become a master of it. 1:48
It's the only way to become a master of something, to be really with it. And then you'll be able
to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don't worry too much."