Choosing Your Passion || Acharya Prashant

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00:00The fellow will say, you know, my heart beats for cricket.

00:04You must ask him, why doesn't your heart beat for ice hockey?

00:07Because there was cricket on the TV, there was cricket in the journals,

00:10on the radio, the park in front of your house.

00:13You're seeing all these things.

00:14And all these things were having an influence on you.

00:17Were you born in Brazil, would your heart still beat for cricket?

00:20Or Russia, let's say?

00:21Passion is as much an external thing as, let's say, peer pressure.

00:26Somebody chooses his work or occupation going by market forces or peer pressure or family pressure.

00:32And then there is someone who says, I am choosing my passion for my livelihood.

00:37These two are hardly different.

00:38Even if one is better than the other, it's only marginally so.