Real Definition of FUN! || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Is it okay to enjoy and have fun as a teenager? || Acharya Prashant, with NIT-Jamshedpur (2023)

Transcript

00:00For some, that is the definition of fun.

00:03Go and kick somebody in the butt and say ha ha ha.

00:06That's some kind of animalistic fetish.

00:09Fun is about choosing work that challenges your weaknesses.

00:13Fun is about stretching yourself.

00:15Fun is about the caterpillar deciding it's time to turn a butterfly.

00:21That's fun.

00:22Work has to be fun.

00:23But work will never be fun if work is chosen in a herd, when the work is just to follow

00:28the crowd.

00:29How can work be fun?

00:31Fun does not lie in ingratiating yourself.

00:35Fun lies in standing bravely in front of challenges.

00:40That's the only fun possible in life.

00:42There is something that you thought you couldn't stand, but you anyway decided to challenge

00:47it and you found that you are more powerful than you thought.

00:50That's fun.

00:51That's adventure.

00:52That's thrill.

00:53What else is there?