Akira The Don, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson - What Would You Be Like? lyrics

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 limit's 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 limit's to that
We do not know the limit's 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?