Public Speaking Skills || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Have the guts to question everything || Acharya Prashant, at Mithibai College, Mumbai (2022)

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00:00Public speaking classes, English speaking classes, personality development classes for

00:05six-year-olds, eight-year-olds, ten-year-olds.

00:07And parents are rushing to admit their wards into such courses and classes.

00:13And usually the ads will have an eight or ten-year-old standing in a very confident

00:19pose.

00:20Now you wonder, what is this kid so confident about?

00:23What does he have?

00:24What does he know?

00:25That's the idea of this time and age.

00:28Confidence, just shallow confidence.

00:31The mark of the student who's going to progress is that he would continuously be looking inwards.

00:39Those who don't look inwards, those who just keep looking outwards and this side and that

00:43side and at the world, they never really grow, right?

00:47So irrespective of what happens as a result of self-inquiry, never stop questioning yourself.