What Would You Be Like?

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?