Full video: Are you smart, or just shallow, young man? || Acharya Prashant, with IIM Calcutta (2022)
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00:00People are not watching movies or reading books or doing anything in life for the sake
00:07of the higher pleasure or the joy that reading itself, watching itself, the process itself
00:15gives to you.
00:16Today, books are being written in the PPT format, so there are bullet points.
00:21You do not want to enjoy the beauty of language.
00:25You do not want to have, let's say, an 800-page volume in your hands in which paragraphs run
00:33for 4 pages, 6 pages and sentences run for 10 or 12 lines.
00:39Nobody wants to have that kind of patience and it is not really then a crisis or shortage
00:47of patience in itself.
00:48It is a problem with the philosophy of this age.
00:52The book has come to me and my central god is consumption.