Sir, What is your daily routine? || Acharya Prashant, IIM-Konversation (2023)

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00:00Acharya ji and I have a few rapid fire questions as we call it because we have been discussing

00:09for a long time and I will not take any more of your time.

00:12I will straight away jump to those questions and the first one is what are some non-negotiables

00:21in your everyday routine in your opinion?

00:25Reading the reports that come from various departments in my organization, that is something

00:36I do that without fail and the second thing is reading before I retire and sleep.

00:48So I read on a daily basis something, anything, but I definitely read and the reports.

00:56I cannot go to bed without looking at the reports.

00:59In fact, if people sleep without sending the reports, I go and wake them up.

01:04Any favorite book or author that has deeply influenced your thinking?

01:08I know for a fact that you yourself are an author who have written countless books now.

01:12That's a no-brainer.

01:13Upanishads.

01:14The Upanishads.

01:16Do you still read them?

01:19Oh, obviously.

01:20That's not something you can ever get over with.

01:23You have to go through them again and I have to read because I teach them.

01:28So the Kathopanishad is what I am currently teaching.

01:32The first time I taught Kathopanishad was more than 10 years ago.

01:35So I go back to them and I go through them over and over again and again every few years.

01:45Do you have any podcast recommendations that you listen to?

01:49You said that some of these people that people consume is absolute garbage.

01:56Do you recommend something that people should listen to?

01:59Not really.

02:00Okay, we'll move on.

02:04What's the last book you read and enjoyed beyond Upanishads?

02:09If I have to ask you, any fiction book?

02:12Fiction would be like, just so many years back, I don't have any memory.

02:18The one that I am currently reading is by Wu Sin.

02:24The Forgotten Book of Wu Sin and it's called Five Volumes on Non-Duality.

02:35I don't know whether it's readily available in the market, but it's a wonderful piece.

02:41You could say the Chinese equivalent of Ribhu Gita.

02:47What is the most challenging aspect of you being a writer?

02:50I can see so many books written here over the years, probably that you have written.

02:56Do you also have a writer's block?

02:57I don't have a writer's block.

02:59I have a time block.

03:01The most challenging aspect is finding the time to write.

03:05So the next one has been on the table for more than a year now.

03:11And the publisher has been gently reminding that I must send the final manuscript.

03:19Before I came to you today, after many, many days, I have been able to work on that book

03:31for some six hours today.

03:32I don't find the time.

03:35That's the block.

03:38Should people be scared of artificial intelligence?

03:40No, no, people should rather be scared of not having true intelligence.

03:49Okay, I really like that answer.

03:55If you were born again in the body of a 22 year old, the experiences that you have had,

04:06would you like to do the same again or would you do something else in your life?

04:13The first thing, nobody ever gets born again.

04:16So that's a very important part of my teaching, but for the sake of the answer, if I were

04:24to speak to my 22 year old self, I would say, commit yourself more rigorously to sports.

04:37There are three racquet sports that I play, and then four rather, including table tennis,

04:44and then there is cricket, the ubiquitous one in India.

04:48But I would have loved to excel.

04:51I play well, but I cannot claim a level of performance I would rather want to have.

05:03So that's one thing I'll tell myself, commit yourself with much more love to your sports.

05:12And the second thing, save time as much as possible, read even more, read even more,

05:26trust yourself more, you can save time.

05:32I have experimented a lot with life, but probably there have been phases when the results were

05:41more or less clear, yet I persisted with the experimentation phase, because I was still

05:50feeling uncertain.

05:52So I would advise myself to trust myself more and hence save time.

05:58Right.

05:59Thank you very much, Acharya ji.

06:02On that note, I'll draw close to this particular conversation.

06:05I hope that people who are listening to this enriching podcast, they'll get something out

06:11of it.

06:13I definitely am going back with a lot of learning.

06:17I expected to learn from you, and as I mentioned that I came in here as somebody who wants

06:26to pick your brains, wants to challenge a few ideas that I have, that probably you have,

06:33and probably a lot of people in our generation have.

06:35And I hope that I did justice to it to whatever extent possible.

06:39And I would leave that to the audience for us to tell.

06:43Do tell us who you want in this particular seat in the next episode in the Conversations

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06:52Do share it with your friends who think, who you think needs to hear this that we spoke

06:58about today.

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07:03Thank you very much, Acharya ji.

07:04It was lovely having you.

07:05Thank you.

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