JEE Toppers Are Lost: Here’s Why! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: At IIT, and still not happy? || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Bombay (2022)

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00:00The level of self-awareness at the time of clearing the JEE and appearing for the counselling

00:07is usually pretty low.

00:10The decisions that a 17-year-old makes, that would have been your age, right, at the time

00:16of counselling, 17, 18, are not well informed.

00:19You do not know what that branch holds for you.

00:22You also do not know what you want in life.

00:26So that has happened and that is going to happen because nobody is teaching you life.

00:31The result, terrible levels of self-awareness.

00:35And these days I suppose you spend several years at that place called Kota as well.

00:41And that place is meant to make you very unidirectional.

00:44And that's how people get selected.

00:46How will you know anything about anything else?

00:50You will not know about the world and you will not know about yourself.