Stop Overthinking || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Do you overthink? Here is a beautiful solution || Acharya Prashant, Sir J.J. College, Mumbai (2022)

Transcript

00:00So, I usually tend to overthink everyday things.

00:03The mind needs something to chew.

00:05You cannot just abruptly bring the mind to a thoughtless state.

00:10Not possible.

00:11Determine what is important.

00:12Honestly, give it due credit.

00:15And I like to say, fall in love with it.

00:17Make it your life.

00:18Then, there will be no space to think of random things.

00:21Else, you're traveling to the college and you're looking out of the bus window and you

00:27see something happening.

00:28And you'll find yourself thinking about it for 30 minutes.

00:3130 minutes of life gone.

00:34On nothing.

00:35And that's how most of us simply waste away our entire life.

00:40On nothing in particular.

00:42Now, death has arrived.

00:45And death asks, so tell me, how was it?

00:47What did you do?

00:49Well, nothing in particular.

00:57Have one thing worth living for.