You’re Not Addicted to Your Phone - It’s Something Deeper || Acharya Prashant, NIT Warangal (2022) - video Dailymotion

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00:00Good evening sir, my name is Pregna, third year BTEC civil engineering.

00:08So my question is how to make effective use of time and what should I do to get less distracted?

00:15So I spend so much time on mobile phone and I use social media a lot.

00:20If I get a notification sound, I'll immediately pick up my phone and I'll check that I get

00:26distracted very easily.

00:28So could you please throw some light on this, how can I be less distracted?

00:35Mute the notifications.

00:45See what's wrong with the mobile phone, if you're doing something important on the mobile

00:48phone, it's alright to be glued to the phone.

00:53What are you doing on the phone, that's the question.

00:55I'll listen to online classes on the mobile phone but at the same time when I get a notification,

01:03I'll open that.

01:04No, no.

01:05What are those notifications about?

01:09They may be WhatsApp message or on Instagram.

01:16Right.

01:17So what are those WhatsApp messages about?

01:19They are from friends.

01:22What are your friends about?

01:32If you want to avoid their messages, maybe your friends are avoidable.

01:35then that's the real problem, not the phone.

01:40Your phone is only bringing the reality of your company and contacts and life to you.

01:48No?

01:49That's why your phone is bringing to you.

01:54If you have not chosen your friends with care, then they will send you all kinds of crap.

02:06Right.

02:07And then you will say, I want to avoid the phone.

02:10Whereas what you need to avoid is your friends.

02:15The phone can bring great things to you.

02:18Can it not?

02:19Yes.

02:20So, there is nothing wrong with technology.

02:24So, it's we use it wrongly.

02:28We use it wrongly because we are wrong.

02:33Because we are wrong, so we have chosen our friends wrongly.

02:38And then those friends do what they will do.

02:41They keep you sending all kinds of good morning, good afternoon messages and some senseless political

02:52crap or some lewd joke and all kinds of things are there.

03:02So why are you choosing your friends the way you do?

03:07It's starting, they don't interact very much, but as a time being, we become very close handles

03:20and all.

03:21So, when they become close, they show their true colours.

03:24Right?

03:25It's not that your closeness has degraded them.

03:30When they come close, they just remove their wheels and show what they are really made of.

03:39So, it's not the closeness that is the problem.

03:43You have a knack for misidentifying the problem.

03:46Firstly, you said the phone is the problem, now you are saying closeness is the problem.

03:50How can closeness be a problem?

03:52Closeness is a wonderful thing.

03:55But it is important to be careful of what you are coming close to.

04:04Most people are acceptable and polite from a distance, are they not?

04:10That is some kind of a social obligation.

04:14The imperative is on you to identify people even from a distance.

04:25You pick up the wrong people, you let them come close to you, now they are within striking

04:29distance.

04:33Somebody is carrying a dagger or somebody has huge claws like that of a tiger.

04:44If that fellow is at a distance, you are probably safe, fortunate.

04:50You allow that person to come close, now what will happen?

04:57Long goes the dagger.

05:02So you have to be a good reader of people and that you can do only with self-awareness.

05:08When you know yourself, it becomes easy to read the other person as well because you and

05:14the other are fundamentally alike in many ways.

05:19We fail to read others because first of all we have failed in reading ourselves.

05:25That is why a spiritual orientation is extremely important, especially for young people.

05:38And even more important for young women because the way things are women have much more at stake

05:48and much more to lose if they allow the wrong kind of people to become intimate.

05:56So, young women in fact need doubly to be spiritual compared to a man, else that fellow enters

06:13your life and starts sending you crap and you are bombarded.

06:21What do you do now?

06:22You cannot even mute the notifications, you are attached.

06:24If you mute the notifications, he will probably come and knock on the door.

06:29How will you mute the door?

06:41Fall in love with the right things in life.

06:44Yours is a great age to fall in love with books.

06:49Fall in love with adventure.

06:52You are in a good campus.

06:54Why not pick up sports and try to excel?

06:59Why not learn to dance?

07:00Why not learn a musical instrument?

07:03Why not travel the country?

07:06And if you have resources, why not travel the world?

07:12If you have no resources, at least read.

07:17Nothing can bring the entire world to you.

07:20At least 80% of that.

07:25Why be so desperate for human company?

07:36I am not asking you to be a loner or avoider of human company.

07:50It says that things must be given their due place.

07:59And their due place depends on their quality.

08:04If you do not have good quality people around you, there are many other better options.

08:15Why not spend your evenings learning to swim or sing?

08:28And there could be so many other things, I mean, you would know better.

08:39Is that not infinitely better than having some random rascals around you, sending you hackneyed

08:51forwards and you are also supposed to reply with some stupid emoji.

09:00And not one would do.

09:00If you send one, they will think you are angry.

09:02So, they will pester you with a thousand other things.

09:05So, you have to one foolish joke comes to you and you have to reply with at least half a dozen

09:16emojis.

09:17And then that person's soul is satisfied.

09:22I have succeeded in destroying somebody's 10 minutes at least.

09:35And this is when somebody is sending you personal forwards.

09:43Then there is at most just one person to destroy you.

09:50God save you if you are part of a group.

09:55A group containing 142 people.

10:01And each of them first of all begins the day by saying good morning ji.

10:09And those roses.

10:14And so many animals are there.

10:18All our love for animals gets expressed on WhatsApp, that owl, that cow, that rabbit, that horse.

10:34But it beats me.

10:35How can you not mute the notifications?

10:43Just like a college, important information about college also, they will forward in WhatsApp.

10:50So, I can't.

10:52I am pretty sure your college does not spam.

10:57It would be very interesting if it does.

11:00Is it the official college group that keeps spamming?

11:05No.

11:06They would be sending things once in a while, right?

11:10Once a day or once a week.

11:15So it's not the college thing that you are talking of, let's be honest.

11:19Yeah, but I am saying that if I mute notifications, I will not get that.

11:26You can mute persons as well.

11:31That much technology even I know.

11:35And you are a generation ahead of me and still you are talking this way.

11:38What are you doing?

11:39You can even send groups to archives.

11:42You won't even see them.

11:45What do you think?

11:46I have only spiritual knowledge.

11:58The solution lies in being absorbed in something higher.

12:07Bring something good and great and beautiful to life.

12:10And all these petty distractions will vanish.

12:15You will have no time.

12:18Yes sir.

12:19Right?

12:20Yes sir.

12:21Alright.

12:22Thank you sir.

12:26Wonderful.

12:27Oh.

12:32We will have my life exile.

12:36What do you think?

12:39Yeah.

12:40We will have a leap just by now.

12:44Very good for you.

12:45Everyone we're talking up here.

12:46You have abridge movie.

12:48We will be very free.

12:49Put you in that heart.

12:50I have to decide what we will do toifiee.

12:52Sounds like, yeah.

12:52How do you know?

12:54We will be able to deal with it.

12:54If you've got them tomorrow.

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