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Why To-Do List Fails? || Acharya Prashant
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5/7/2025
Full video: Failing with your To-Do list? || Acharya Prashant, at SPIT Mumbai (2022)
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The reason why the to-do list goes unattended and a-begging is because it is full of worthless tasks.
00:10
Love is missing. Therefore, you find excuses to avoid those tasks.
00:14
Then you push yourself using the thing called willpower.
00:17
And with great difficulty, you manage to complete two or three out of the six.
00:21
Enough to somehow cross the line and get you passing marks.
00:24
In whatever examination, you have survived for the next day to repeat the same story.
00:28
The problem is not the absence of willpower or motivation or whatever.
00:32
The problem is that you do not know the tasks to take up.
00:36
When you assign a task to yourself, ask, is it important?
00:40
If it is not important, why must I pretend to give it importance?
00:44
Why must I even jot this thing down?
00:48
Let me be bold enough to simply omit it or strike it out.
00:51
And if something is indeed important, why can't I sit with it for five minutes and appreciate its importance?
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