What if money was no object?

British philosopher and thinker Alan Watts asks the question, "What would you like to do if money were no object?"

It's a question many of us have considered, but few have truly act upon. "Yeah, that's nice, but I have to pay the bills," is one common reply. "I have responsibilities," is another.

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will 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, to go on doing things you don't like doing.

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

Life can be so much more when we don't let money decide our direction and purpose in life.
transmorphersays...

If money was no object, I'd carry out the plot of Moonraker, only I'd do it successfully cause I know that Bond is going to be in the other shuttle.

newtboyjokingly says...

My thoughts exactly.......but that's only stage one towards green Mars.

transmorphersaid:

If money was no object, I'd carry out the plot of Moonraker, only I'd do it successfully cause I know that Bond is going to be in the other shuttle.

noimssays...

I've heard this idea espoused many times: follow your passion. An alternative that I like and follow (but not in a social media way) is 'become useful'. Find a useful skill or set of skills, become good at them, contribute to society, and get rewarded in return. This reward can come in several forms such as money, time, or convenience.

Of course, the best way to get good at something is repetition/experience, and the least painful way to get that is to pick something you enjoy doing, so in that respect I agree with the video.

I love programming. I got reasonably good at it. However, working as a programmer sucked much of the joy out of it, so I found a role where I could use that experience but not keep coding. I got good at that, and found a better niche that combined the two skills. I then did the same again. I now have a very nice set of very useful and quite rare skills, and have plenty of options.

I can't find where I first heard this idea - there are a lot of vidoes out there saying this - but there's a good version at https://videosift.com/video/Is-Follow-Your-Passion-is-bad-advice.

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