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Real hard work is a result of a really happy mind || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2015)
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Video Information: Samvaad Session, 31.3.15, Gurugram, Haryana, India
Context:
~ How to work hard?
~ How to be happy?
~ How to live rightly?
~ Is hard work really the key to success?
~ Is happiness & hard work exclusive?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00
So, you are assuming that the happy one does not work hard.
00:15
Yes, only happiness and happiness excludes hard work.
00:25
Is that so?
00:26
You read that happiness excludes hard work?
00:33
Yes, happiness is the key to success.
00:38
Correct.
00:39
But does happiness exclude hard work?
00:44
If happiness excludes hard work, then all those who work hard surely must be very sad
00:54
to add.
01:00
Can't you work hard happily?
01:04
Can't hard work emerge out of your joy?
01:12
I am so happy that I am working very hard.
01:15
Or must you work hard only with a long face?
01:18
I am so frustrated that I am slogging.
01:30
Yes since childhood we have been told about effort as a duty, hard work as an obligation,
01:43
hard work as a result-oriented investment, work hard so that you can have dividends later
01:52
on.
01:53
But there is another kind of hard work, very energetic hard work, which arises from your
02:12
happiness, which arises from your completeness.
02:27
And it's not result-oriented.
02:28
It's like a pack of, a herd of deers running in a jungle.
02:37
It's not that a tiger is chasing them and it's not that they are running towards the
02:42
grassland.
02:43
They are just running and they are running terribly hard.
02:47
You can't catch them.
02:48
Have you seen at least video recordings of animals running very very fast in a jungle
02:55
or birds soaring high?
02:58
It's not necessary that they are hungry.
03:03
They are just soaring high.
03:06
They must have climbed to that height and that requires energy.
03:12
They could have decided to sleep.
03:15
Why put in so much of effort?
03:17
Why climb to that height?
03:19
Why keep gliding?
03:26
Why flap your wings?
03:29
No, I am happy so I am working hard.
03:39
Our hard work is just labor.
03:45
Labor done to get result.
03:51
And the result that you want never satisfies you.
03:55
The proof is that you want more.
04:05
At no point do you stop and say that I have had enough.
04:12
And because you want more, you have to put in more labor.
04:18
So in all your life you are just a laborer.
04:40
I am talking to you right now.
04:42
Even this involves some expense of energy.
04:49
Does it not?
04:50
Coming over to your place took me two and a half hours.
04:56
I invested time.
05:03
But as you will go back, I will not even know your names.
05:09
In fact, your faces are not even imprinted in my memory.
05:17
Time is too short.
05:18
Tomorrow if you meet me in the market, I may not even recognize you.
05:30
I cannot really expect anything from you.
05:32
I don't even know your name.
05:34
Neither name nor face.
05:37
So it's alright with me.
05:46
If one of you does not belong to this course and is yet sitting here, it's alright with
05:53
me.
05:55
No count has been kept of that nature.
05:59
I suppose the whole thing was optional.
06:01
Somebody could have come.
06:08
So work is happening without much of an expectation from the future.
06:17
I may never meet you again.
06:20
We may never come to this university again.
06:24
That's alright.
06:30
But the work that is happening, because it is happening without any expectation for result,
06:42
is hence of a very high quality and is therefore fit to be considered, to be recorded.
07:10
And same on your side.
07:12
You have not come here for the sake of marks, right?
07:16
This particular session does not hold any academic credits.
07:26
You too have invested time.
07:27
You too have walked some distance to come over.
07:31
And work is happening.
07:33
And beautiful work is happening.
07:37
It is happening out of our mutual happiness.
07:40
You are not compelled to come here.
07:42
You are happy to be here.
07:43
Or so I suppose.
07:50
I am surely happy to be here.
07:53
And out of this happiness, work happens.
07:56
So get rid of that assumption that happiness excludes hard work.
08:00
It does not.
08:07
Happiness that excludes hard work is just lethargy.
08:27
A fellow who says, "I am happy only when I don't work" is surely a free rider.
08:47
What can you do?
08:48
You have worked hard only when you are afraid and sad, right?
08:52
Somebody comes and pulls you up.
08:54
Exams are coming.
08:55
You will fail.
08:57
And then you start working hard.
08:58
So what is your engine?
08:59
Sadness.
09:03
The more sad you are, the harder you work.
09:06
Is that not so?
09:09
The more afraid you are, the harder you work.
09:16
Like a dog that is chasing you.
09:21
Or like being chased by a dog.
09:28
You don't even know how fast you can run.
09:32
All you need is that rabid dog.
09:39
And you work so hard.
09:42
And when the world gets to know that that is the way to get you to work hard, then it
09:47
only has to let some dogs loose after you.
09:52
Oh, she is not working hard, Tommy?
09:58
And she starts working hard.
10:05
Don't let this become a habit.
10:10
Don't let this be known that you can be made to work hard through pressure or frustration
10:18
or sadness or fear.
10:19
Otherwise, you are giving the world a handle over you.
10:39
Be happy and run hard.
10:42
How does that sound?
10:46
Like somebody who jogs for pleasure.
10:50
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