How to be cool about results? || Acharya Prashant (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00What do you mean, sir?

00:03This is Ankit Tiwari from NIT Agartala. I am pursuing Masters in NIT Agartala.

00:09Sir, I have a question that if we are preparing for something.

00:13In general, I am asking if we are preparing for something.

00:16Sir, we have told that we have to not worry about results.

00:20Ultimately, I also think that we should not worry about results.

00:24But ultimately, I have that in mind that if I am doing something

00:28that I should come out with that result.

00:31I also think that I should not think about results.

00:34But at the back of my mind, I have that what the result will be.

00:38So, how to be cool, simple that how to be cool.

00:42I want to be cool that I do not want to worry about results.

00:46But that result is ultimately fearing me that what will be the result.

00:54The result that you think of is a programmed concept.

01:02Yes, sir.

01:04Its definition can be changed.

01:08Its definition can be changed. It is like this you see.

01:11Yes, sir.

01:13We all keep looking towards the 30th of the month.

01:20Let us say.

01:22And why do we keep looking towards the 30th of the month?

01:25Because the paycheck arrives on the 30th.

01:29Right?

01:30Okay, sir. Yes, sir.

01:32Now, the arrival of the paycheck on the 30th makes the 30th so important.

01:40It is not that the 30th is by itself important.

01:44What makes the 30th important is that the paycheck arrives on the 30th.

01:50Alright.

01:53We start thinking as if 30th is a special date.

01:56As if 30th carries an intrinsic value.

02:01Challenge that. How?

02:04Start paying yourself every day.

02:07Start paying yourself every day.

02:13Now, is the 30th important anymore?

02:17Let us say every day, evening, you get paid.

02:24On the first, you get paid for what you have done on the first at right at 6 p.m.

02:30Till 6 p.m. you worked and you got it.

02:32Second p.m., second you worked till 6 p.m. and you got paid.

02:36And that is the way it happens throughout the month.

02:38Now, the 30th is no more important.

02:42Are you getting it?

02:43Change the definition of result.

02:46Tell yourself that success consists of excelling at every point in the process.

02:54So, there are these 30 points in the process.

02:57Now, I am not worried about merely the 30th, the last point.

03:03There are 30 points in the process.

03:06Now, I am not worried about merely the last point.

03:11Success consists of excelling at the first point, at the second point, at the third point.

03:18Just as you can be paid on the first, on the second, on the third, you can be paid continuously.

03:24Why should you accumulate everything and make the 30th a big date?

03:32Tell yourself, my success is not determined by what happens on the last date at the last step.

03:42My success is determined daily.

03:47If I did well today, I have succeeded.

03:50I have succeeded and I can celebrate.

03:52Or rather the celebration lies in doing well itself.

03:56I do not even need to separately celebrate.

04:01You will have to reprogram yourself or rather deprogram.

04:07Because we have been trained by our biology and the society to think only of the end point, to think only of the 30th.

04:16You will have to educate yourself to think of the entire chain.

04:22Because everything is as important as the last point.

04:27And then it will be far better for you.

04:30Obviously, you will then need supporting circumstances as well.

04:34Because if there are people around you who just keep asking of what happens at the last point,

04:39then you too will feel as if only the last thing is the most important.

04:44The last thing is not the most important thing.

04:47The last thing does not even exist, I dare say.

04:51All that exists is here, right now, where you have the capacity to change things.

05:03Can you decide what happens on the 30th? No.

05:06But you can decide what happens today.

05:09And today is what? 22nd.

05:13So, the 22nd is where your success and failure lies.

05:19But you keep thinking of the 30th, whereas everything is being decided on the 22nd.

05:26And everything will again be decided on the 23rd and then on 24th and then on 25th.

05:33So, educate yourself to think this way or rather not think in terms of just the final milestone.

05:52Sir, I want to ask, if I have listened to a video, if I am not wrong, I have listened to a video,

05:58I have listened to one which hits me a lot.

06:01Sir, can I speak in Hindi if you don't mind?

06:04It would be good for me to express my feelings. It's my request to you.

06:09Go ahead, go ahead.

06:10You said that when you spend 100 rupees, you don't think once, but 50 times.

06:21And I am listening to you continuously, that's why I am asking you.

06:24You said that when you spend 100 rupees, you think 50-1000 times.

06:31Sir, this is our life. We create our own understanding.

06:36Sir, we are giving 1 year in preparation or 2 years, whatever it is.

06:41Now, sir, when you are saying that we can think 1000 times when we spend 100 rupees,

06:48then we are giving 2 years.

06:50Maybe these 2 years can impact us.

06:54But these 2 years are the important moments of our life.

06:59And where can we reach? But we don't think about the result.

07:02We know that we should not think.

07:05Because it affects our preparation.

07:07Obviously, today we are doing IIT JEE or GATE or IISC.

07:14It affects our preparation.

07:16Obviously.

07:17But ultimately, the result is coming to our mind again and again.

07:21And you are talking about 100 rupees.

07:23Sir, I agree that you said that we think about 100 rupees.

07:28But the point is that we are investing our entire life's earnings there.

07:33And sir, the thing is that we are investing 2 years.

07:37But as a middle class family, our parents are investing their entire life's earnings.

07:41Our parents are investing their entire life's earnings.

07:44And the thing is that how can we not think?

07:47It is coming to our mind again and again.

07:49Like you said, don't think about it.

07:53You said, see what you are doing today or what you are achieving tomorrow.

07:58I totally agree with that.

07:59I have no doubt that we should not make big goals.

08:04We should make small goals.

08:06I truly agree with that.

08:09No, I didn't say that.

08:11Listen, listen, listen.

08:13He is not saying that don't make big goals and make small goals.

08:18That is not what is being said.

08:20What is being said is that the future does not come within your power.

08:26The future is just a principle.

08:31The future is just an imagination.

08:37You make a big goal like a mountain.

08:41But that mountain is not within your power.

08:45Within your power, there is just a hammer that you are using right now.

08:50A mountain is a big imagination.

08:54So you make a big goal like a mountain.

08:57You have to climb the mountain.

09:00Imagine that you have to climb the mountain.

09:04And the peak is very far.

09:07Where do you want to keep your eyes right now?

09:10It is a very high mountain.

09:12And you have to climb it standing up.

09:14Where do you want to keep your eyes?

09:16On the peak or where you are going to keep your feet?

09:28Tell me.

09:29Tell me.

09:33Sir, if we don't keep our eyes on the peak,

09:35then there is no point in keeping our feet on the ground.

09:38If you want to reach the peak, then I think...

09:42If you want to climb the peak,

09:45then where do you want to keep your eyes?

09:50If you want to climb the peak,

09:52then where do you want to keep your eyes?

09:55Actually, those who are serious about climbing the peak,

10:00they never look at the peak.

10:02And those who look at the peak,

10:05those who imagine and enjoy the peak,

10:09they never reach the peak.

10:14Those who want to reach the peak,

10:16their eyes are right under their feet.

10:19Where do I keep my next foot?

10:21Those who keep their eyes on the peak,

10:24they can sing a good poem,

10:27but they will never reach the peak.

10:33In the next moment, they will slip and fall down

10:36in the opposite direction of the peak.

10:44Sir, I am a little confused about this.

10:47I am a little bit confused.

10:49Sir, when we make an aim,

10:52then we make a target.

10:54You made it.

10:55You made it.

10:56You made it.

10:57Now what do you have to do?

10:58You have to keep thinking about it.

10:59No, not at all.

11:00I am not thinking about it.

11:02I have never thought about it.

11:03Yes, you made it.

11:04You made it.

11:05You left it.

11:06You made it.

11:07You left it.

11:08Now work on it.

11:09No, sir.

11:10I didn't leave it.

11:11It has become a fact.

11:12By leaving it, I mean that you made it.

11:14Now it is decided.

11:15You kept it.

11:16You make it and keep it.

11:18It has become a fact.

11:19You made it and keep it.

11:21You made it.

11:22It is decided.

11:23You left it.

11:24Now what do you have to do?

11:25It has become a fact.

11:26Now what do you have to do?

11:27Now work on it.

11:28Now where will you work?

11:29Yes, sir.

11:30Like you just said.

11:31Okay, sir.

11:32I made some aim.

11:33Okay, sir.

11:34I made an aim

11:35that I have to cross out IAS next year.

11:37I don't give any tension about the result.

11:39This is my prospective of thinking.

11:41I don't give any tension.

11:43Whether it will happen or not, that is a different matter.

11:46Whether it will happen or not.

11:47Many people do preparation.

11:48Whether it will happen or not, that is fine.

11:49Well and good.

11:50But I am worrying about my process.

11:52I am doing a very good job in that process.

11:54I am doing what I can do 100%.

11:56But ultimately, at the back of the mind,

11:59many people are studying.

12:01Many people have given their whole life's preparation there.

12:06They have given their whole life's time there.

12:08But sir, at the back of the mind, the result is coming.

12:11It is coming because you are not serious about your aim.

12:21You are not honest about that aim.

12:23Otherwise, how would you have hidden the place in the back of the mind

12:27that I will keep thinking something else here.

12:30You are saying that you have to give some test.

12:33You have to give a test of mathematics.

12:35Now, there is a question of mathematics in front.

12:37Yes, sir.

12:38So, there should be a question of mathematics in the whole mind.

12:40Half of the mind is still thinking about your future.

12:42So, the question of mathematics will not be different.

12:44And you will never get what you want in the future.

12:47Sir, but sir.

12:49Sir, but sir, I agree with what you said.

12:53Because my future is also related to that question of mathematics.

12:56Oh brother, the future is an imagination.

12:59If it comes, then keep it.

13:01If it comes, then keep it.

13:02Then what can I do in it?

13:03If you are telling the solution, then the solution is with you.

13:06What can I do in it?

13:09If it comes, then let it come. Keep it.

13:11Sir, that is what I want. How can I stay away from it?

13:16I have already told you, with honesty.

13:18If you are honest with what you want, then you will stop thinking about it.

13:23Now, this thing is not getting into the mind easily.

13:26If you are honest with what you want, then you will stop thinking about it.

13:31You will just work.

13:33And if you are not honest with what you want,

13:37then you will work less than you think about it.

13:42You will keep enjoying thinking.

13:44Because there is a lot of joy in thinking.

13:46You are thinking, it is going on.

13:49Who will work? Think about it.

13:59Yes sir.

14:01I understood it so easily.

14:04No sir, I did not understand it so easily.

14:07But okay, I will try.

14:09Sir, you told me that we can learn. That is the thing.

14:13Okay.

14:17But I will learn. Thank you very much for your time.

14:19Thank you very much sir.

14:20Thank you sir.

14:30Acharya ji, we have now come to the end of the first part of today's session.

14:35Right.

14:36I will request Shashi to make the closing address, please.

14:44Shashi, can you switch on your video, please?

14:51Am I audible, sir?

14:53Yes, please go ahead, Shashi.

14:55Yes, sir.

14:58So, sir, thank you Acharya sir, Guruji, for giving us your valuable time and effort.

15:04It was a very fruitful session and we learned a lot.

15:07So I hope in future we can have this opportunity once again.

15:10So thanks once again for providing us this wonderful opportunity.

15:14And thank you so much.

15:16Thank you.

15:17Thank you, sir.

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