Slaves to the Likes || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Self-esteem dependent on others? || Acharya Prashant, with IIM Calcutta (2022)

Transcript

00:00I made a good TikTok video or a Facebook reel and it got appreciated, it got a million views

00:05and that makes me feel very very good about myself. Is that not very dangerous? Are you not

00:09exposing yourself to a very bad kind of slavery? Who am I is being determined by the entire world.

00:16You are allowing a billion people to become your masters. If they approve of you, you are great.

00:21If they don't, you are gone. This will lead to a terrible kind of psychosis. You'll always be

00:26looking at others. In fact, you'll always be looking in others' eyes to see how you look.

00:33If I have to constantly keep wondering what others might be thinking of me, I cannot be

00:38called a free person.