Is Confidence Good? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Identity, Ambition, and the Search for Fulfillment || Acharya Prashant

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00:00It's alright if you are not a very confident person.

00:03You might not realize it, but confidence is a very very deep problem.

00:08Confidence in fact corresponds to an inner laziness.

00:10I do not want to keep inquiring, therefore I am shutting down the process of inquiry.

00:18I won't allow any more questions to arise.

00:20That kind of confidence we have.

00:22Joy lies in inquiry itself.

00:25Joy does not lie so much in concluding, closing or arriving.

00:30It lies in traveling rightly.

00:34So do not feel inferior, do not allow others to dominate you and do not be easily impressed

00:40by those who appear confident.