What Would You Be, What Would You Do?
Akira the Don, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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If you’re feeling heroic and you want To do something for the world And you want to expand what you understand You poke your head through what you know And you take a look at the At whatever structure is out there And to me this is a re-creation Of the Daoist Yin-Yang symbol you know With the white paisley here and that’s what You know the dark paisley serpent’s there And the right place to be is Right on the line between them Put one foot where you understand That gives you security But it’s kinda dull because hey You know everything that’s going on there and That isn’t what people are like They don’t want just security Dostoyevsky said, I love this, if you Gave people everything they wanted They had nothing to eat but cake And nothing to do but sit In warm pools and busy themselves with The continuation of the species The first thing they would do, well Maybe after the first week Was go kind of half insane And smash everything up just So that something that they Didn’t expect would happen So that they’d have something Interesting to do And it’s so right because the Utopian notion that if you Just had all the material stuff You wanted that you you’d be What would you be? What would you do? Well what would you be? What would you do? You’d just sit on the couch and watch TV I mean you’d be, I don’t know what You’d be cutting yourself just for Entertainment in no time flat you know And that’s the sort of thing that people do So we’re not adapted for security and utopia We’re adapted for a certain Amount of security Because you know we are vulnerable But mostly we want to have one foot out where We don’t know what the hell is going on Because that’s where you’re alert and alive And tense and with it I believe this and I believe it Actually has something to do With the hemispheric structure of the Physiology of your brain The right hemisphere looks roughly adapted to What you don’t know and the Left hemisphere is adapted to the World that you do know And the right place for you to Be is halfway between them You can tell that, that’s what’s so cool What would you be? What would you do? We’re not adapted for security and utopia Well what would you be? What would you do? Mostly we want to have one foot out where we Don’t know what the hell is going on What would you be? And you want to be out there in the Unknown enough so that you Keep updating yourself Well what would you be? What would you do? That’s where you’re alert and alive This tells you that this is actually Reality that’s manifesting it'self to you You know that sense of active Engagement you have in The world when things are Working well for you you know Where you’re where you should be At the right time You’re alert and on top of things and engaged And you don’t have much of a Sense of time and the sense of the Tragedy of life sort of recedes That’s when you’ve got one Foot where it’s secure And one foot out in the unknown And your brain signals to you That you’re in the Right place by making what You’re doing meaningful That sense of meaning is actually a Neurophysiological signal that you’ve got the Forces of the cosmos properly balanced in Your being at that moment And that’s why it feels so good What else could it possibly be? What would you be? What would you do? We’re not adapted for security and utopia Well what would you be? What would you do? Mostly we want to have one foot out where we Don’t know what the hell is going on What would you be? And you want to be out there in the Unknown enough so that you Keep updating yourself Well what would you be? What would you do? That’s where you’re alert and alive You know that because that’s Where you are when You’re having a really interesting Conversation with someone Or you’re gripped by a book Or you’re really into a movie Or maybe something that you do As a, you know apart from your work Or maybe even in your work You’re into it and that’s because you are In the right place at the Right time and your whole nervous system Is signalling that to you And I would say that’s the sort of place That you should be all the time That’s the recreation of paradise on earth It’s something like it Because you are in the right place at The right time when that is happening
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