How to focus on studies? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Concentration can be easy || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Pilani, Goa (2022)

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00:00you think that studies are just a way to secure placements then what is it that you are putting

00:05value on placements now how will you concentrate on studies tell me you have already taught

00:11yourself to value money how will you value academics now your mind will go where your

00:16values are and what do you want to do with money you want to entertain yourself i'll roam the world

00:20i'll visit all kinds of scenic places and next to you is your mobile phone and scenes from those

00:26places are being flashed on the mobile screen now would you ever want to concentrate on your

00:32studies if the ultimate value lies in entertainment and that's what you are studying for so that you

00:38may get placed and then earn money and then entertain yourself then the mind says if entertainment is the

00:44final and highest value why not have entertainment right now so close the book and jump into

00:49entertainment that's what we experience all the time do we even know what to desire that's the

00:54question and that's called crisis of values we do not really know what is desirable