Video Information: 18.01.2021, IIT Online session, Greater Noida
Description:
The video emphasizes the importance of choosing a compelling, intrinsic goal as the key to staying focused and motivated. Acharya Prashant explains that distractions arise not because they are powerful but because the chosen goal is weak or externally influenced. A truly worthy goal is one that provides unconditional joy or leads to liberation, making the journey itself fulfilling, without requiring external rewards like money, prestige, or validation.
Acharya Ji critiques goals driven by societal trends or external persuasion, as they lack the internal commitment necessary to sustain long-term effort. Instead, a meaningful goal aligns with one's deeper inclinations and current condition. Acharya Ji advises evaluating whether a goal offers joy or challenges one's bondages, as these qualities ensure enduring motivation and satisfaction. True fulfillment lies in engaging with a process that is its own reward, independent of outcomes or external validation.
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Description:
The video emphasizes the importance of choosing a compelling, intrinsic goal as the key to staying focused and motivated. Acharya Prashant explains that distractions arise not because they are powerful but because the chosen goal is weak or externally influenced. A truly worthy goal is one that provides unconditional joy or leads to liberation, making the journey itself fulfilling, without requiring external rewards like money, prestige, or validation.
Acharya Ji critiques goals driven by societal trends or external persuasion, as they lack the internal commitment necessary to sustain long-term effort. Instead, a meaningful goal aligns with one's deeper inclinations and current condition. Acharya Ji advises evaluating whether a goal offers joy or challenges one's bondages, as these qualities ensure enduring motivation and satisfaction. True fulfillment lies in engaging with a process that is its own reward, independent of outcomes or external validation.
🎧 Listen to Acharya Prashant on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2QmVEAAnsNE7Xs0MW0Li8Y?si=09fbcbc7c99c469b
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LearningTranscript
00:00Choose the goal properly.
00:14Let the goal be so compelling that the goal itself is a defense against distractions.
00:25If you choose a goal that's not worthy enough, it makes no sense to stay concentrated on
00:35it.
00:36You'll try a lot to concentrate on your goal, but you'll find that invariably you get distracted
00:45after a while.
00:47That's not because the distractions are powerful.
00:50That's because your goal is powerless.
00:54So the goal has to be right.
00:57Don't talk so much about how you get distracted.
01:02Talk about how first of all you have made something into your goal.
01:06How has something become your target?
01:08How have you come to desire something?
01:12If your goal setting process is influenced from the outside, then your goal would never
01:19really be your own goal and therefore you will never feel internally totally committed
01:25to it.
01:26You may persuade yourself towards the goal, but that persuasion cannot last long.
01:35It cannot have too much strength.
01:36You cannot drag a man to run a marathon.
01:43If he has to run a marathon, then the inspiration has to be internal.
01:51Can you imagine a man being dragged to complete a marathon?
01:56For how long will you drag him?
01:59Most of us running after goals are like that person being dragged.
02:07Is that inspiration really yours or are you rushing after a goal because a thousand other
02:15people want the same thing?
02:21Are you following a trend or have you really thought it out?
02:27Have you put in time, effort to see whether your inclinations are real or just conditioned?
02:40We do not address these basic questions and therefore we keep struggling with motivation.
02:48We say we are demotivated, we are distracted.
02:51You are demotivated because your motive itself is unworthy.
02:57What is the worthy motive then?
03:01The worthy motive would always have something to do with your current condition.
03:13It would either be something that gives you joy or it would be something that gives you
03:19liberation.
03:21And even these two, after a point you will see, are identical.
03:26It would either be something that gives you unconditional joy, purposeless joy.
03:36It is something you can do without getting any reward.
03:41If there is something that attracts you this way, then it's fit to be your goal.
03:48And if you are rushing towards something because that something will offer you something
03:53in return, then that's a strong indication that you have wrongly chosen your goals.
04:01If you say that that particular point X ahead of you is your goal because upon reaching
04:09X you will be rewarded with money or career or prestige, then chances are you will not
04:16be able to sustain your motivation for long.
04:19Whereas, if you are doing something just for the unadulterated pleasure of doing it, you
04:27don't want something in return.
04:28The doing is the return.
04:31You're not saying I'll get something after being successful.
04:37If you are saying the very process of doing that thing is the bliss, the return, the reward,
04:47then you will never be distracted.
04:51And the other thing I said is that you will stay with your goal if your goal liberates
04:56you.
04:57Identify where you are in bondage, challenge that bondage.
05:05And if challenging that bondage is your goal, then again you will stay committed, you will
05:11not be distracted.
05:14These two things you must find out.
05:16Does your goal offer you unconditional joy?
05:22You understand unconditional?
05:24You're not saying I'll be happy only after receiving the returns.
05:30You are saying whether I succeed or fail, I'll be just happy.
05:36Because just being in this, just being in the journey, just being in the process is
05:40so nice.
05:42Then you'll stay with this goal.
05:45Congratulations, you have come upon something beautiful.
05:48Or if your goal leads to your freedom and liberation, then again your goal would never
05:59dissatisfy you or disinterest you.