Re: Whom would you like to interview and what would you ask?

Description: An interview with Gandhi.

Whom would you like to interview and what would you ask?

Hill: Well he’s dead, but I’d wanna . . . I’d certainly wanna interview Gandhi.  And I . . .  I’m really interested about growth, so I might ask him about growth.  I . . . It sort of seems like our entire society is built on growth.  And yet the globe is a finite thing with finite . . . there’s only so many people we can put on it.  There’s only so many resources.  There are only . . .  And so it’s like there’s this . . .  Our whole society is built on this trajectory that is infinite, but it’s not infinite.  So I’m not sure if Gandhi would be able to answer that question, but . . .

Hill:        Well I think people talk about on your deathbed, you never say, “I wish I spent more time at work,” or it would be so . . .  Like I think it’s a . . .  I’d apply a similar concept.  I think . . . I think that people . . .  For the people that are watching this show, they have very little at risk.  So I think a lot of people like leave . . . don’t do that . . . don’t align their work with their values because they’re worried about finances, or their worried about this sort of stuff.  And it’s just like the reality for the people that are . . . that can watch a television, for the vast majority of the them there is a network – whether it’s friends, or family, or government – around them that they’re just not gonna end up on the street.  So I would counsel people to really make that jump.  Don’t worry.  You’re gonna be fine.  And align your work with your values.  You spend a lot of time working, and you might as well do a good thing because that’s . . . that’s what you’ll be thinking about later on on your deathbed, you know?  Did you . . .  Were you good with your family and good with your friends?  And did you do something that had some meaning?  And I think there’s little . . . there’s really little risk.  So I just would encourage people to jump into it.

Recorded on: Oct 16 2007