What Would You Be Like? - Akira the Don

You know, if you take people and you expose them voluntarily to things that

they are avoiding and are afraid of

You know, that they know they need to overcome in order to meet their goals,

their self-defined goals

If you can teach people to stand up in the face of the things they’re afraid of

They get stronger

And you don’t know what the upper limits to that are because you might ask

yourself

Like if for 10 years if you didn’t avoid doing what you knew you needed to do

By your own definitions, right, within the value structure that you’ve created

To the degree that you’ve done that

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you stop wasting time)

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you spoke your mind)

What would you be like?

There are remarkable people who come into the world from time to time and there

are people who do find out over decades-long periods

What they could be like if they were who they were

If they spoke their being forward

And they get stronger and stronger and stronger and we don’t know the limits to

that

We do not know the limits to that

And so you could say, well, in part perhaps the reason that you’re suffering

unbearably can be left at your feet

Because you’re not everything you could be and you know it

You know it

You know it

Because you’re not everything you could be

And you know it

You know it

You know it

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you stopped wasting time)

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you spoke your mind)

What would you be like?

And, of course, that’s a terrible thing to admit and it’s a terrible thing to

consider

But there’s real promise in it, right?

Because it means that perhaps there’s another way that you could look at the

world and another way that you could act in the world

So, what it would reflect back to you would be much better than what it

reflects back to you now

Imagine that many people did that

We’ve done a lot as human beings, we’ve done a lot of remarkable things and I

told you already

Today for example about 250,000 people will be lifted out of abject poverty

We’re lifting people out of poverty collectively at a faster rate that’s ever

occurred in the history of human kind by a huge margin

So there’s inequality developing in many places and you hear lots of political

agitation about that

But overall, the tide is lifting everyone up and that’s a great thing we have

no idea how fast we can multiply that

If people got their act together and really aimed at it

If people got their act together and really aimed at it

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you stopped wasting time)

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you spoke your mind)

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you stopped wasting time)

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you spoke your mind)

What would you be like?

My experience is with people that we‘re probably running at about 51% of our

capacity

I often ask how many hours a day you waste or how many hours a week you waste

And the classic answer is something like four to six hours a day

Inefficient studying

Watching things that not only do you not wanna watch that you don’t even care

about, that make you feel horrible about watching after you’re done

That’s probably four hours right there

Well that’s 25 hours a week

It’s 100 hours a month

That’s two and a half full work weeks

It’s half a year of work weeks per year

You’re wasting $ 50,000 a year

And you are doing that right now

And so if your life isn’t everything it could be

You could ask yourself what would happen if you just stopped wasting the

opportunities that are in front of you

You’d be who knows how much more efficient

10 times more efficient

20 times more efficient

You’ve no idea how efficient, efficient people get

It’s completely, it’s off the charts

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you stopped wasting time)

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you spoke your mind)

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you stopped wasting time)

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you spoke your mind)

What would you be like?

Well, and if we all got our act together collectively

And stop making things worse

Because that’s another thing people do all the time

Not only do they not do what they should to make things better

They actively attempt to make things worse because they’re spiteful or

resentful or arrogant or deceitful or homicidal or genocidal or all of those

things all bundled together in an absolutely pathological package

Pathological package

Pathological package

If people stop really, really trying just to make things worse we have no idea

how much better they would get just because of that

So you might say, well, what would happen if you abided by your conscious for

five years or what sort of position might you be in

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you stopped wasting time)

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you spoke your mind)

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you stopped wasting time)

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

What would you be like?

(If you spoke your mind)

What would you be like?