Wednesday, October 24, 2007

What would I do if I had all the money in the world

Well, this is really an exciting concept, isn’t it?
Let me get objective and consider A’s situation.
Assumption 1: A has enough money to last 10 lifetimes.
Assumption 2: A is interested in reading, writing, quizzing, personal development, and public speaking.
What does A do? He studies a course in pulp and paper engineering.
Why on earth does he do that? He is certainly not interested in paper is he?
No he isn’t but at the time of choosing the course, poor A didn’t really think on his own. He was way too influenced by what others thought was better for him. So A joins a paper course. But why do the people who make him join a paper course make him join a paper course?
Because they think this will fetch him a good job.
And what does A do with a job – a software job at that? He earns money. He works for money.
But according to assumption 1, A has enough money to last a lifetime. Then why work for money?
So when A completes the paper course, he realizes that since he has money to last a lifetime, he need not work for a company.
Now people around A – the same people who want him to study paper now want him to study chemical engineering in the USA.
But A is wiser this time. He knows first and foremost that he is not interested in chemical engineering. Nor in any science course.
He is, in fact interested in writing, quizzing, reading, personal development, and public speaking. But why would he pursue a post graduate course in writing? A loves to write but he does not need to study a writing course just because he loves writing. He is interested in writing, not in selling his writings. He does not love learning about the nuances of writing, so he surely won’t take a writing course.
Will A take a quizzing course? Well that seems pretty odd. What would they teach in a quizzing course? Quizzing is fun you ask and answer questions, participate in quizzes. Surely you don’t need a course for that.
Reading – a course would be too much. J
And coming to personal development. I don’t know about A but I think it would certainly be foolish to pursue a graduate course in personal development. After all wouldn’t it be better to pursue small – interesting, essential courses – say 1 month courses or 2 day courses – as and when required if required at all. I guess A would think this way too. A is sane, right?
So now we come to speaking. Well, Mr A. If you love speaking, go ahead take a course. But a two year course? I would say no. That would be too much. Indeed too much.

So here we are there is not an iota of doubt that if A does not need to work for money, A would certainly not do a professional course in the US! That’s clear and obvious.
Well then what would A do? Would he do a management course. That would teach him how to run a company and how to manage people + how to keep accounts – wouldn’t it? Well, as a matter of fact it will teach him all this and more. But the question is, why would A want to start a company in the first place? Why?
A is certainly not interested in managing people. A is certainly not interested in manufacturing products like soaps and steel. Assumption 2 takes care of that. It lists A’s interests, right?
So if A is sane ( Well they didn’t mention assumption 3 and I seriously doubt it J), he would certainly pursue his interests. Why wouldn’t he? He has all the money in the world!
A would continue writing. Maybe he would reach out to a wide audience by writing on the internet. Maybe he would write a book and make a difference in the lives of some people. After all, he is interested in writing.
He could conduct quiz competitions: He is interested in speaking. So why not organize quizzes. He could lecture at Universities where personal development is taught. Of course, if they allow him toJ He could conduct workshops. Yes he could.
And A can read and read and then proceed to read some more. Who’s stopping him?


And now we come to a very special portion of this article.
Here’s a beautiful statement.
"Assumption 1 is false but A and all of us have the potential to live our life as if it were true at the same time earning enough money to make it true."
There’s no point working for money, as someone has said – if you can make money work for you.