Why Confidence Doesn’t Help? || Acharya Prashant

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

Transcript

00:00feel confident act self-assured but how can you act self-assured when like a puppet your strings

00:07are in 47 hands there is no self when you say self you mean something original something

00:15authentic something of your own if everything about you is being commanded by others is dependent on

00:21others then do you even have a self do you even exist if you don't exist what self-assurance are

00:28you talking of the confidence that you have when you are not dependent on anything when everything

00:33that you have or carry or are associated with it's just something you take very lightly we are very

00:40playfully and won't be too sad or dejected or destroyed if taken away then there is a an unspeakable

00:50pleasure in living