How to balance work and fun in life? || Acharya Prashant (2022)
Full Video: How to live, and not just survive? || Acharya Prashant, at St. Xavier's, Mumbai (2022)
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Video Information: 19.10.2022, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai
Context:
~ How to live and not just survive?
~ How to live rightly?
~ What is the right thing to do in life?
~ How to know what is our passion?
~ Can computer overtake humans?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 19.10.2022, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai
Context:
~ How to live and not just survive?
~ How to live rightly?
~ What is the right thing to do in life?
~ How to know what is our passion?
~ Can computer overtake humans?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00 How do you balance that work and life and fun relationship together?
00:11 You have to start from seeing where your time is actually going.
00:20 See time is not necessarily purely objective.
00:27 There is one thing called the material time that you look at in a chronometer, in a watch.
00:44 You could call it the chronological time.
00:47 And there is another thing that we experience, time in the head.
00:53 As we experience it, time in the head.
00:58 Mental time, psychological time.
01:03 Psychological time does not run the same way as material time.
01:13 Intervals that are boring to us, distasteful to us, dislikable to us, stretch within.
01:21 They are experienced as bigger and more important than they really are.
01:32 So for example, I took around one and a half hours coming to your college.
01:38 I am at Juhu.
01:42 But these one and a half hours appeared longer than one and a half.
01:47 Now if I am not being very objective about my time, I will feel as if of my, let's say,
01:59 17, 18 waking hours and the 14 odd hours that I have available for work, to and fro commute
02:12 has taken away six hours, whereas objectively how much has been expended?
02:22 One and a half plus another one and a half.
02:26 So that's just three.
02:28 But because the Mumbai traffic obviously is not something anybody can relish.
02:35 Because you cannot relish it, because every moment feels like a tax, a burden.
02:44 So internally this expands to six and that's okay.
02:49 That's okay to know that this time is not likable, so it is appearing longer.
02:57 But it is a mistake when that internal appearance is transported to outer calculations.
03:07 Internally it appeared like six hours.
03:09 Now if I take that six hours as an objective figure, as a material reality, then I'll entitle
03:16 myself to say, oh, I have all in all 14 hours available to myself in the day.
03:22 And out of those 14 hours, six hours have been taken away by the commute.
03:28 I'm not deliberately deceiving anybody.
03:33 It's just that I am not mindful of the fact that the experiencer shapes the experience.
03:43 I do not know that.
03:45 The experiencer of three hours can shape them to make them appear like, feel like six hours.
03:54 All that is within.
03:55 The six hours are within, not here.
03:57 Here there are only three hours.
04:01 But the moment I say, oh, I lost six hours out of 14, I have entitled myself to feel
04:07 like a sufferer or a victim.
04:10 Not only that, I have licensed myself to say that a huge chunk, 40% of my time is being
04:19 needlessly spent on something and I'm helpless in that regard because I can't change my commute
04:24 time.
04:25 So what do I do if my academic results are not that good or if I do not get time for
04:30 my co-curricular activities or time for socializing or time for sports or time for entertainment
04:35 and so many other things that a young person wants to have in life?
04:41 The thing is, we ought to be objective.
04:45 We ought to know where it really is going.
04:49 Are we keeping a record?
04:52 Try keeping a record.
04:53 Try seeing where it actually is going and you might find that nobody is actually all
04:59 that short of time.
05:01 Time is there.
05:02 It's just that when time is expended in activities that please us, we try to hide
05:09 that time.
05:12 Because it's our little joyful secret.
05:16 I spent one hour doing something that is very pleasing, but at the same time, not productive
05:23 at all, not useful at all.
05:25 There is no creativity in that.
05:26 There is just a very average kind of or low kind of pleasure in that.
05:33 Will I admit to myself that one hour of my active time, waking time is being taken away
05:40 by that activity daily?
05:41 No, I'll not admit that.
05:43 So that one, objectively, will be reduced to zero internally and three hours of commute
05:53 objectively will be blown up to six internally.
05:58 So the calculations will go haywire.
06:01 When you put the numbers on the sheet, if you're not being objective, you're just
06:06 going by appearances and experiences, you will feel, oh my God, I'm just a victim.
06:11 I'm a poor victim because I'm a Mumbai girl and the traffic is so bad and the college
06:16 timings, they are so oppressive.
06:18 What do I do?
06:19 I have time for self-development, for co-curriculars and I want to visit libraries and you know,
06:23 I want to have a nice little walk on the beach in the evenings and none of that is being
06:28 possible because the entire system is just oppressing me.
06:31 That's not really the case.
06:34 If you will be honest, you will find that significant chunks of your time are being
06:40 taken away by activities you do not even want to admit to yourself.
06:45 All of us are involved in activities that simply, but silently, surreptitiously, now
06:54 at our time, those things are not bold enough and open enough to just come and declare,
07:04 yes, we are going to take away two hours of your daily schedule.
07:08 They will not declare that because if they'll declare that, they will be caught.
07:12 They will say, oh, it's so bad, two hours spent every day gossiping, chatting or scrawling
07:20 reels.
07:21 No, no, no, that's just too bad.
07:23 So what will we do?
07:24 We will act to ourselves, we will pretend to ourselves as if that time does not exist
07:32 at all.
07:33 So those two objective hours will simply be marked as zero within.
07:36 No, that didn't happen.
07:37 Yes, I went to bed at 11 because, you know, I'm a student, I'm supposed to wake up like
07:42 6, 7 maximum.
07:43 I have to reach the college at what time?
07:46 8 time?
07:47 8, 9?
07:48 8.
07:49 So I'm supposed to wake up at 5.30 so that I can leave the home by 6.15 and be here in
07:53 time.
07:56 And how was I feeling in the commute?
07:58 Drowsy, energyless, all sapped out, ready to fall over.
08:06 The neighbor was trying to be extra careful.
08:09 Anytime something can tumble over me.
08:13 Why was all that happening?
08:16 Because did you really sleep at 11pm?
08:19 No.
08:20 11pm is when you declare to yourself that you have gone to bed.
08:24 Till 1am in the night, it was Instagram.
08:32 Is that not so?
08:33 And I'm not saying that offhand.
08:38 The usage statistics of social media among the youth very clearly bring out this aspect.
08:49 Young people are most active on social media two hours before and two hours after midnight.
08:58 10pm to 2am.
09:02 That's when young people are running about on social media.
09:08 Why don't we talk about that traffic?
09:10 There's a lot of traffic there.
09:13 Why don't we talk about the traffic there?
09:15 You know what happened?
09:16 You'd have been in your school at that time and you wouldn't have had a phone available
09:20 to you.
09:22 When data first started becoming available, I'm talking of a situation 10 years back or
09:29 something, these companies, they came up with plans.
09:36 Not that data started becoming available in 2012.
09:39 That was 20 years back.
09:41 But I'm talking of the plans specifically.
09:43 They came up with plans that made data cheaper between 9pm and 3am.
09:54 And it worked for them.
09:57 They also reduced the calling rates.
10:01 So now data is cheaper and calls are cheaper.
10:04 And what are all the young people doing?
10:07 And I do not really suppose that all that data is being consumed in self-development
10:13 and gaining internal illumination.
10:18 How do I say that?
10:20 When I look at the pages, the profiles, the channels, all these things, the handles on
10:28 social media, and I see which ones have the maximum followers, likes, retweets, comments,
10:38 what do I find?
10:39 What do I find?
10:43 The worst quality ones have the maximum traffic.
10:49 Pages and profiles and channels that ought to have been starved of any viewership are
10:58 the ones frolicking in attention.
11:06 They are literally inundated with viewership.
11:17 And all that is happening between 10pm and 2am.
11:25 That's where the youth of India is spending its time.
11:30 First of all, your time is not going into something you'd want it to be devoted to.
11:42 Secondly, you are empowering.
11:45 I'm not talking about you, please.
11:46 It's not.
11:47 I'm talking about the youth of this country in general.
11:50 Secondly, you are empowering all kinds of worthless and very mediocre people.
12:02 And they are turning into your role models, your celebrities.
12:09 It's a double geoparty.
12:16 That which deserves to command your attention is being starved of attention.
12:22 And even viewership is a market.
12:23 If you do not look at it, if you do not look at something, that thing in due course of
12:28 time will cease to exist.
12:30 You know how the social media engines operate.
12:35 If something is not receiving viewer attention, it will no more come up in the search results
12:43 or in the notifications or in the various other things.
12:47 On the other hand, if something is getting popular, it will get more popular.
12:51 It will be shown to more people.
12:55 Figure out where your time is really going.
13:00 There are things you can do nothing about.
13:03 You or I cannot change the traffic situation in Mumbai.
13:08 But there are things we can do something about.
13:11 Let's have a talk of them.
13:14 Otherwise talking of immovables becomes a clever internal ploy to not move even the
13:26 movable.
13:29 Talking about the unchangeable becomes an excuse to not change even the changeable.
13:39 Figure out where your time is.
13:41 And if commuting takes so much time, use that constructively.
13:45 I do not know whether the train or bus or personal thing you are using affords you that
13:51 kind of convenience.
13:52 But if you can read, read.
13:54 If you cannot read, use earphones or headphone.
13:59 Use audio files.
14:01 That's the best use of…
14:03 There have been people who have educated themselves in the course of their journeys.
14:09 There have been people who have written beautiful books in the course of their hospitalization.
14:16 So try to make the best use of whatever situation you are in.
14:21 I do not know whether this satisfies you but…
14:29 Even in jail, some of the greatest literature from the freedom struggle movement, the Indian
14:38 freedom struggle movement, came from the period when our revolutionaries were jailed.
14:46 And you know what they said?
14:48 They said this is really the only time when we are free to write.
14:53 So thank you.
14:55 Now that we are incarcerated here, there is nothing else to do.
14:59 So we will write.
15:01 And they wrote prolific volumes.
15:04 Try to make best use.
15:05 Thank you.