Before blocking somebody || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: The way to face criticism || Acharya Prashant, with BITS Pilani (2022)

Transcript

00:00Somebody comes and criticizes you.

00:02He is showing you a mirror if that is what is happening.

00:05Then that criticism has to be listened to even a thousand times.

00:09Even that fellow hurts you very deeply and again and again.

00:13He still has to be given access in your ears repeatedly.

00:18So it's not that you shut someone out because he is hurtful.

00:22You stop listening to people who are unworthy.

00:25And who is an unworthy person?

00:27Who is not bringing the truth to you.

00:29Who is either dumping lavish but undeserved praise on you.

00:34There are such people.

00:36Keep praising people without a reason.

00:38And earn some favors in return.

00:40They are not reflecting to you your reality.

00:43Where you really stand, what you are really doing.

00:45They are not holding a mirror to you.

00:47So then you are justified to block them, to not listen to them.

00:51Or even if you have to listen to them, you give them a low priority.