Think of it as Yoga for the brain, we are going to stretch a bit.
What Would You Do? –
Ask Yourself and others these 4 questions.
“The life you want is hiding behind the excuses you keep rehearsing. Ask the right question, and your truth will answer for you.” -YNOT!
If you really want to know a person, don’t bother with their job title, favorite TV show, or the sort of nonsense they brag about on social media. Ask them one simple question:
“What would you do if you could not fail?”
Watch their face. Watch how their eyes betray them before their mouth catches up.
Some folks answer quick, like they’ve been waiting their whole life for the question—“I’d start a company,” “I’d climb Everest,” “I’d write that book.” All big, shiny dreams that sound wonderful as long as you don’t have to bleed for them.
But the truth is—if failure were truly impossible—you wouldn’t chase the loud dreams.
You’d chase the dangerous ones.
The ones wrapped in honesty and risk and heartache.
The ones you’ve been avoiding because failure isn’t the real fear—cost is.
It’s never the mountain that scares us.
It’s what the mountain demands in return.
That’s the measure of a life: What would you do even if the pain of trying might still leave a mark?
But let’s take this question for a little walk. Let’s hold it up to the light from a few angles and see what else it reveals.
If You Could Live Forever
If the clock couldn’t touch you—no endings, no funerals, no goodbyes—you’d finally stop putting life on layaway.
You’d try everything you’ve been “meaning to do someday.”
You’d learn every language, master every craft, love people without that quiet dread of losing them. You’d live big.
But you’d also discover something uncomfortable:
Immortality doesn’t give life meaning. Mortality does.
The deadline is what makes the sentence worth writing.
Live forever and you might take your dreams for granted.
Live with limits, and suddenly every hour is a currency you spend carefully.
If You Had One Week to Live
Now reverse it.
One week. Seven sunsets. Seven chances to tell the truth.
You wouldn’t waste a minute.
No doomscrolling, no arguing, no nonsense.
You’d forgive people you never thought you could.
You’d say the things you’ve been carrying like unpaid debt.
You’d hug harder.
You’d laugh louder.
You’d stop trying to win every battle and finally surrender to what matters.
Funny how a short life clarifies what a long one obscures.
If You Won the Lottery
Everyone thinks money changes you.
It doesn’t.
It just turns up the volume on what you already are.
If you’re generous now, you’ll be Santa Claus with a checkbook.
If you’re selfish now, you’ll be a tyrant with nicer shoes.
If you’re lost now, you’ll simply be lost with better furniture.
Money doesn’t make character.
It exposes it.
If You Were Invisible
Ah, now here’s where the truth pokes through.
The question isn’t what you could do…
but what you would do when no one is watching.
Some would use invisibility to help people.
Some would use it to harm.
Most would use it to avoid responsibility altogether.
Invisibility reveals the real person you carry inside—the one who only comes out when consequences are asleep.
So… What Would You Do?
There’s the twist in all of this:
Every one of these scenarios—invincible, dying, rich, unseen—
they all point back to the same secret:
You already know the life you want.
You’re just waiting for permission to live it.
Immortality isn’t coming.
The lottery probably isn’t either.
A week to live is one diagnosis away.
And invisibility?
Well, life already gives you moments where nobody’s watching.
So the real question—the one that matters more than all the rest—is simply this:
What would you do if you stopped waiting for the perfect conditions…
and started living the damn story now?
That’s the dragon you’ve been circling.
And sooner or later, it’s going to be you or it.
