Choosing Friends || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Girl, keep career ahead of emotions || Acharya Prashant, with NIT-Silchar (2022)

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00:00How do we choose friends? We choose the kind of friends that support our mental patterns.

00:07We choose friends whose company allows a rush of dopamine to the brain.

00:13So you are not choosing friends. It's the body, the brain that is choosing friends.

00:18How do we choose partners? We choose partners based on their intellectual depth and spiritual wisdom.

00:24We may claim so. It sounds honorable. But the fact is that the body has its own ways.

00:30And the first proof is that a woman likes to choose a man and a man likes to choose a woman.

00:36If we were looking only for intellect and depth, why would gender be a concern?

00:42But the gender is the first thing.