Work and Motivation || Acharya Prashant

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00:00When you pen down something, when you assign a task to yourself, ask, is it important?

00:05If it is not important, why must I pretend to give it importance?

00:10Why must I even jot this thing down?

00:14Let me be bold enough to simply omit it or strike it out.

00:18And if something is indeed important, why can't I sit with it for five minutes and appreciate

00:25its importance?

00:26If something is important, don't just write down four words about it.

00:32Give four minutes to it.

00:33Just four minutes.

00:34And ask yourself, why is this thing important?

00:37So we see the problem lies not in the absence of willpower, but in the absence of understanding.

00:43Most of us complain of lack of motivation.

00:46That is hardly a problem.

00:47Because motivation helps nobody.

00:49You do not require motivation.

00:50You require realization.

00:52You do not realize whether something is important.