Be Genuinely Competitive || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Competition and stress in student life ||  Acharya Prashant, at ICT-Mumbai (2022) ~~~~~~~~

Transcript

00:00My coach once told me, when your opponent hits a great shot, that wasn't squash.

00:04Ask yourself, how did I allow him a loose ball?

00:08It's not that he has played a great shot, I gave him the opportunity to play a great shot.

00:12Had I not given him a loose ball, he wouldn't have been able to play a great shot.

00:16Don't tell yourself, oh my god, I have a ferocious opponent, I'm surely going to be defeated.

00:21That's not the thing to be said.

00:22Yes, your shot is indeed great.

00:24Alright, I admire that.

00:25I concede you played a wonderful shot.

00:27But before you played that great shot, something else happened.

00:30What was that?

00:31I offered you an easy ball.

00:35I'm not going to do that.

00:36I'm not going to do that.

00:37That's real competitiveness.

00:39Real competitiveness introspects.

00:41Real competitiveness looks at oneself and tries to raise the bar within.

00:47Getting it?