Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh), May 18, 2025 (ANI): Renowned philosopher and author Acharya Prashant has unveiled his new book 'Decoding Success', a compelling inquiry into the modern pursuit of success and its deeper psychological and spiritual implications. he also outlined an alternative vision of success, one that begins with introspection. Addressing media, he said, "There is a kind of success in which we just follow the external standards of success without knowing who you're and what you want and then you say if I achieve X, Y or Z stuff that others have been telling me to achieve then I too will be labeled as successful…That is one kind of success and that we said is the kind of success that involves lot of consumption without giving you any satisfaction and has hence resulted in a kind of climate crisis we are facing today." Further he also outlined an alternative vision of success, one that begins with introspection. “Then there is another success in which you first figure out what is it that holds you back and what is it that you really want. It is obvious that for anybody to be successful or a winner, first of all it has to be seen where all the weaknesses are, where the inner defeats are. If I do not know what keeps me down, what keeps me defeated, where do I keep losing, if I know none of that then there is no way I can be successful."
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00:00Today, tell us about it, what was the idea behind it, what made you write this book?
00:05See, there is a kind of success in which you just follow the external standards of success
00:16without knowing who you are and what you want.
00:19And then you say, if I achieve X, Y, or Z, stuff that others have been telling me to achieve,
00:31then I too will be labeled as successful.
00:34That is one kind of success.
00:36And that we said is the kind of success that involves a lot of consumption
00:40without giving you any satisfaction and has hence resulted in the kind of climate crisis we see today.
00:47And then there is another success in which you first figure out what is it that holds you back
00:54and what is it that you really want.
00:59And it is obvious that for anybody to be a successful one or a winner,
01:06first of all, it has to be seen where the weaknesses are, where the inner defeats are.
01:13If I do not know what keeps me down, what keeps me defeated, where do I keep losing,
01:19if I know none of that, then there is no way I can be successful.
01:26So being successful is first of all about having some self-awareness,
01:31realizing what is it that you need to do and then immersing yourself fully in it.
01:36So there are these two kinds of successes.
01:39Anybody who is born will want to be successful.
01:43We are all born to be winners.
01:45That is also the message of Vedanta.
01:47You are born to conquer.
01:50You are born to achieve the highest.
01:53Yes, you are born to achieve the highest.
01:54Yes, you are born to struggle.
01:56Yes, you are born to succeed.
01:58But a struggle against whom?
02:01Success of what kind?
02:02These are very important questions to answer.
02:05Otherwise, in the absence of any internal standard,
02:10we start following very random kinds of ideas
02:15and invest in those ideas and thereby waste our one precious life.
02:21See, how do I know what am I to do?
02:26How do I call myself successful if I have zero idea of where my targets are really coming from?
02:37So that's what.
02:38Two kinds of successes are there.
02:41And I must know very well what I am chasing before I sink myself fully in chasing it.
02:49So that's what I believe.