Is Life Worth Living? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: A Guide to Making Better Choices || Acharya Prashant (2021)

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00:00Is life worth living?

00:01But that question is never answered because it is never asked.

00:04Google will tell you only what you enter in the search box.

00:08People will advise you only what you ask them.

00:10There's hardly a person who can go beyond his brief and expand the scope of the answer

00:17beyond the question.

00:18Most of your advisors won't do that.

00:20Their answers will be in the same dimension as the question.

00:23It requires somebody very, very loving and risk-taking to give you an answer you never

00:29asked for.

00:30You see, when we seek advices, we actually limit the scope of the advice.

00:36We tell the other person, we want the answer in yes or no.

00:39We want the answer only about this topic.

00:42I want the answer only in my context, my own framework.

00:46What if the context itself is wrong?

00:49What if the framework itself is of ignorance?

00:52No answer will be then good enough.

00:54All answers will just lead to your eventual demise.

00:57So learn to ask the right questions.