This is one of Alan Watts' most famous talks.  This is the talk that internet playboy Dan Bilzerian famously shared and speaks about about how it radically changed his perspective on life.  A life lead by pursuing pleasure is a life that leads to destruction; the destruction of self and the destruction of others along the way.

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is a deeper question altogether which is

what do you desire? what makes you itch?

what sort of a situation would you like?

let's suppose I do this often in

vocational guidance of students they

come to me and say well we're getting

out of college and we have the faintest

idea what we want to do so I always ask

the question what would you like to do

if money were no object what would how

would you really enjoy spending your

life 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 or another

person says well I'd like to live in out

of doors life and ride horses I said you

want to teach in a riding school let's...