The Problem with Fame || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 I made a good TikTok video or a Facebook reel and it got appreciated, it got a million views
00:05 and that makes me feel very very good about myself. Is that not very dangerous? Are you
00:10 not exposing yourself to a very bad kind of slavery? Who am I is being determined by the
00:16 entire world. You are allowing a billion people to become your masters. If they approve of you,
00:21 you are great. If they don't, you are gone. This will lead to terrible kind of psychosis. You'll
00:27 always be looking at others. In fact, you'll always be looking in others' eyes to see how you look.
00:34 That's not a free position to be in. If I have to constantly keep wondering what others might
00:40 be thinking of me, I cannot be called a free person. See, this is the nature of the world.
00:45 If you get too dependent on anything it offers, you have condemned yourself to slavery and fame
00:52 is one of the most seductive things that the world offers. Do not be addicted to this seduction.