Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song What Would You Be Like?, artist - Akira the Don. Date of issue: 01.07.2021
Song language: English
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? |