800 crores & you chose one? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00The people you know of, how many of them are with you by your choice, your volition?

00:06Please tell me.

00:06Some of them, you know, because they happen to be your batchmate.

00:09Some of them, you know, because they happened to be your schoolmates.

00:14Some of them are chance acquaintances.

00:17You happen to meet somebody in the metro or in the bus or in a fest, right?

00:22And just because you happen to be with that person, I know him.

00:25We exchange numbers.

00:26Now tell me, how do you define your society and why must you be constrained

00:31when you have 800 crore options available?

00:35Look at the kind of opportunity you are utilizing.

00:38How many are our contacts?

00:40We said 800 approximately, right?

00:42And what's the population of the planet?

00:44800 crores.

00:45So the opportunity we are utilizing is one in a crore.

00:48You were given one crore options, but you stuck to just one of them.

00:54And that one of them, even that one is not your choice.

00:57It is chance.