Ask yourself: which road to take? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Why the fast ones must learn to be slow || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Kharagpur (2021) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Transcript

00:00Before you excel, ask yourself, what must I excel in? What is worth it?

00:05Before you speed down a road, ask yourself, which road to take?

00:09Speed comes later. Choice of the right road comes first.

00:13It's far better to be slow on the right road,

00:17than to be lightening quick down the wrong road towards your own destruction.

00:22Making the perfect choice is far more important than being perfect at the perfect choice.

00:29Pick up the right project even if you can't initially excel at it.

00:34Instead, you are taught to choose as per your strengths.

00:38Because that's what the society and the body want.

00:40They say, pick up something you can excel at.

00:43That's a very, very bad way of decision making.

00:45First of all, realize what is it that really must be done.

00:49Must be done.

00:50And then, pick it up even if you cannot excel at it.

00:54Slowly you will learn.