Cockroach in the Plane || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 If you are using a smartphone, you must know something about the phone.
00:04 Not just about the apps installed there.
00:06 I know I have Instagram app there and so I use that app.
00:10 You must also know what that little computer is about.
00:13 You are not a computer engineer.
00:14 You will not be able to know everything about that phone.
00:16 But you must have some knowledge.
00:18 You ride your two-wheeler or your four-wheeler.
00:20 You must know at least the basic principle behind the engine.
00:24 You fly to Bombay, to Goa, some place.
00:27 You must at least know the basic physical principle that makes the plane fly.
00:31 Otherwise, what's the difference between me sitting in the flight
00:35 and some cockroach that has made its way to the luggage cabin.
00:38 Both of us are flying.
00:39 The cockroach is flying. I am flying.
00:41 The cockroach does not know how the plane flies.
00:44 Even I do not know how the plane flies.
00:46 The cockroach does not know why really it is flying.
00:48 The cockroach.
00:49 Even I do not know why I am going to Goa.
00:51 Just some impulse, some random incidents and I find myself on the plane.
00:55 the plane.
00:56 Similarly some random coincidence and the cockroach is in the luggage cabin.