The Curse of Luxuries || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Unlocking Success: Why Financial Literacy is a MUST-HAVE in College! ||Acharya Prashant, NIT-J(2023)

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00:00One great way to kill you is by confining you in a room full of luxuries and saying

00:06you will be given the best food to eat and no work to do and all the time to sleep and

00:11entertain yourself.

00:13Within 4 or 6 months you will drop dead.

00:15That tells you something about life.

00:17Life in some sense is like a machine.

00:21It exists for the sake of an output.

00:24What kind of output?

00:25That's for your discretion to decide.

00:27One of these financial influencers, a very biggie, a big one really, he was asked, what

00:32do you think must be the direction of life for a young person?

00:35He says, you know, I do not think so much.

00:38All I want is that all should manage to achieve their targets.

00:42What an answer.

00:43Life is like a car.

00:44It can't keep standing at one place.

00:46We are supposed to work, toil, exert yourself.