Full Video: Competition and stress in student life || Acharya Prashant, at ICT-Mumbai (2022)
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00:00My coach once told me, when your opponent hits a great shot, that wasn't squash.
00:04Ask yourself, how did I allow him a loose ball?
00:08It's not that he has played a great shot, I gave him the opportunity to play a great shot.
00:12Had I not given him a loose ball, he wouldn't have been able to play a great shot.
00:16Don't tell yourself, oh my god, I have a ferocious opponent, I'm surely going to be defeated.
00:21That's not the thing to be said.
00:22Yes, your shot is indeed great.
00:24Alright, I admire that.
00:25I concede you played a wonderful shot.
00:27But before you played that great shot, something else happened.
00:30What was that?
00:31I offered you an easy ball.
00:35I'm not going to do that.
00:36I'm not going to do that.
00:37That's real competitiveness.
00:39Real competitiveness introspects.
00:41Real competitiveness looks at oneself and tries to raise the bar within.
00:47Getting it?