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Dare to Be Different: Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone || Acharya Prashant
Acharya Prashant
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6/18/2025
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So, my question is, whenever we take decision in life, we tend to take the easier path despite
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it not being beneficial to us.
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We like to stay in our comfort zone.
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So how do we come out of this?
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How do we push ourselves to take the difficult route?
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You do that because you have been convinced that you do not deserve anything beyond a
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point, right?
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The high things in life, be it within or without, they all require a price to be paid.
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They all require that you toil and face difficulties and suffer blows.
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But why will you suffer blows if you have been convinced by the environment around you
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that you anyway do not deserve to reach the top?
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So you will say, the top is anyway inaccessible to me.
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I need to reach some place in between.
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So I will take the shortest kind of route possible and the most economical medium possible.
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When you know who you really are and when you know that your potential is unlimited, then
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there is self-love.
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When you do not want to deprive yourself of what you deserve.
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And then you say, I'll pay whatever price it takes, I'll not settle for something mediocre.
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But mostly, our misfortune, if I may put it that way, is that the mediocre society turns its
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own kid into mediocre products.
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Right?
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The kid is heavily dependent on the society for information, for upbringing, for culture,
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for conditioning, all of that comes from the society.
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And the society is in itself never something of excellence.
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Therefore, it does not cultivate values of excellence within its kids.
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And the kid is made to believe that a normal kind of, as they say, run-of-mill life, that's
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all that there is.
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In fact, if you try to think big, then you are shown down, you are told to stay within
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your limits.
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No?
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The result is then a drop in self-love.
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Because there is something within all of us, remember this very clearly, that can fall
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in love only with absolute excellence.
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With anything short of the absolute, you will find yourself short of love.
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That absolute is also what has been sometimes called as the truth or liberation or even God.
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That's the reason why religions have existed since ancient times.
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Because something in us just very madly loves the absolute.
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It cannot live without the absolute.
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In more personal terms, that absolute is your own personal possibility.
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Most of us do not love ourselves.
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In fact, if you look at the way we behave and take decisions, you will find that in a
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hidden way we hate ourselves.
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We are anti-life.
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We do things, don't we, that harm us.
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Somebody keeps on smoking.
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He knows smoking is bad, still he keeps on smoking.
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Somebody knows he must work hard and study or something, he does not do that.
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What is it, what is it?
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Somebody continues to bear in an abusive relationship and never drops out.
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Why do we do that?
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We keep on eating all kinds of unhealthy stuff.
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Why do we do that?
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Why are all these things indicators of self-love?
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No.
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They are indicators of self-hate.
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Why do we hate ourselves?
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Because we have refused our highest possibility to ourselves.
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Whenever you will do that, you will hate yourself your entire life.
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Whenever you will refuse the highest to yourself, you will become guilty in your own eyes and
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you will not be able to forgive yourself for that.
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And how can you love someone who can't even be pardoned?
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How can you love someone who is guilty of a very bad crime?
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So we don't love ourselves.
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We don't love ourselves.
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If you don't love yourself, why will you want to give yourself the best?
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You will settle for anything normal, usual, mediocre.
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You will say, but you know, this is the way the world is.
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I'm an average bloke like everybody else.
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You can find some kind of false peace in calling yourself an average person.
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But that will be an inner death.
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Inwardly, you know what is it we all live for?
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We live for excellence.
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We live for the Absolute.
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That's what the human birth is for, to attain the Absolute.
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Instead if you have convinced yourself to stay mediocre within, then it's death.
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Because life is for the highest.
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Anything lower than highest, life is the same as death.
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So choose your company with great discretion.
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Do not be around people who show you down.
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Be very clear.
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Be with people who ruthlessly prod you on towards betterment, who mercilessly bring out your shortcomings,
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who never allow you to believe for a second that you are destined to live a mediocre life.
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They'll say, because you must be excellent, therefore all your mistakes must be exposed.
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That's the kind of people and books and environment you should choose.
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Inwardly, whenever you find thoughts of weaknesses dominating you, push away those thoughts.
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Do not allow anybody to dominate you, including your own thoughts.
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If even your own judgment is that you are a weakling, reject that judgment.
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You might be beaten and when you are beaten, accept that with honesty and courage.
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But if somebody tells you that it is your destiny to remain beaten and fallen, push that person away.
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Yes, I have fallen and I won't hide the fact that I have fallen.
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I am courageous enough to boldly admit that I have fallen and it is such a bad display on my part.
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Surely I am cultivating some nonsense within, the reflection of which is this fall.
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But if you are telling me that I must limit my life itself, that I must give up on the potential and the possibilities that life has to offer,
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then sorry, sorry, sorry.
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If I have to live in mediocrity, then I will better not live.
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If I have to live in bondages, then life is not worth it.
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Getting it?
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See, it must be confusing because I am saying both the things.
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On one hand I say, you have to be very honest about your mistakes.
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You must know that your mistakes reveal the fact of yourself.
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So they can't even be called as mistakes.
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On one hand, I am saying that you must really know how ugly your face has become.
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And how weak your inner self has become.
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On one hand I am saying that.
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That our fact is weakness.
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On the other hand, I am saying our potential is greatness.
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Both these have to be remembered at the same time.
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If you remember only one of these, then there will be problem.
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Remember both of these.
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Yes, I am down and out at this moment.
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And I'll honestly admit that.
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But equally, I'll always remember that each human being is born for greatness.
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Greatness is my destiny.
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Never compromise on that greatness.
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Never compromise on the destiny you are born for.
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Remember this, always.
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Does that make sense?
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Never compromise on the destiny.
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Love.
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Dear God.
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to all nature
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