Akira The Don, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson - Wishes lyrics

Genie is the root word for genius
And it's a really interesting
Idea because there's
This unlimited power that's
Associated with genius, but it's constrained
And that's really what the
Human spirit is like
'Cause it has this aspect of the infinite
And it is something that can grant wishes
But it's also constrained, terribly

I don't ask God for favors or for wishes
Or for wishes you know?
I don't ask God for favors or for wishes
Or for wishes you know?

We're constrained mortally and
Physically and all that but the thing is
Is that both the infinite possibility and
The constraint are necessary
That's what makеs up the genie
It has to bе both at the same time
And the idea that, you know
If you find your genie
You can have your wishes, that's right
You have to really want
What you're wishing for
Or you have to make the
Proper sacrifices to get it
It can't be just some whim
You have to ask for something that
You would rather not have
Which is usually wisdom
Somebody asked me about prayer
They asked me if I prayed and I thought
Well, depends on what you mean by that
Exactly

I don't ask God for favors or for wishes
Or for wishes you know?
I don't ask God for favors or for wishes
Or for wishes you know?

But I do think that if you sit
On the edge of your bed and you ask
What foolish thing you're doing
To make it worse
That you'll get an answer, right now
And it won't be the one you want
But it might be the one that if
You listened to would set things straight
I don't think that I've ever
Been in this situation where
If something wasn't going right for me and
I sat and thought "Okay, huh
I'm willing to figure out
What I'm doing wrong"
Which is a big thing to think because
You never know how much you're
Doing wrong it might be something that
You really don't wanna contend with
But if you clear some space
To meditate on that
The probability that you'll
Figure out something that you did that was
Stupid that's bending you and twisting
You in the wind
You'll get an answer very, very rapidly

I don't ask God for favors or for wishes
Or for wishes you know?
I don't ask God for favors or for wishes
Or for wishes you know?
And it's not obvious how you do that
You know, i mean it's not like you know how
You're manipulating your neurons or something
It happens of it's own accord in some
Sense like you can participate in it
I guess and you can interfere with it and it
Seems to take a certain amount of willpower
But it still all happens
Mysteriously behind the scenes
And I would say this sort
Of attitude towards, let's say
Prayer that we're discussing is just
An extension of that, it’s something like
Well, you admit that there's a problem first
And then you ask for the minimum
Necessary intervention which would be
All right
Well, I'd like to move forward on this
Some small amount that someone like
Me could actually manage
I'd be willing to carry it out and
Then you reorient the way you're thinking
As a consequence of that and something
Usually pops out of the abyss
To guide you, very strange
But it's not really any stranger than the
Fact that we can think at all
Because the fact that we can
Think is actually very strange
Strange like the fact that we
Can dream is strange
And that's strange beyond belief
That you can dream or that
Something in you dreams
Which is a much better way
Of thinking about it because
It's not like you're really in
Control of your dreams

I don't ask God for favors or for wishes
Or for wishes you know?
I don't ask God for favors or for wishes
Or for wishes you know?