Delayed Decisions: Balancing Productivity and Pleasure || Acharya Prashant (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 I can do a task normally, but when there are deadlines that thing…

00:08 If you could do it normally, normally as you said, normally, all on your own, then don't

00:19 you think you would have probably already finished it by now?

00:22 Why would you wait for the last hour or the last day?

00:27 Normally nobody puts you on a deadline of one day.

00:31 Whenever submission dates are there with respect to assignments, you get what, one week, 15

00:37 days, sometimes two months.

00:41 So why would you be staring at the last day of submission?

00:48 Had there really been love, you would have completed it well ahead of time and submitted

00:54 it already.

00:57 This means you need the deadline.

01:00 This means that it is just an imaginative fancy that you would complete it even in absence

01:08 of deadline.

01:09 You remove the deadline and you find you will do nothing at all.

01:14 Or maybe you will do one thing, claiming that one thing is your true love, whereas the fact

01:19 is that you need to know five other things as well.

01:23 Maybe without knowing those five other things, you cannot even know that one thing you claim

01:27 to be in love with.

01:33 So I am saying two things here please.

01:35 One, when you are really mature and really independent, then you don't need deadlines

01:41 at all.

01:42 Two, if you are not yet that mature, then deadlines are something you should actually

01:48 love because deadlines are aiding your journey towards learning.

01:56 A day will come when nobody will give you deadlines.

01:59 A day will come when you will be all on your own.

02:03 You know, and when you are all on your own, then usually what do you do?

02:06 You give deadlines to yourself.

02:11 And that's a good thing to do.

02:12 That's a good thing to do because human beings are never going to be perfect.

02:16 There would always remain that lazy ego within with all its fake excuses, looking for alibis

02:24 to procrastinate, hide here, do there something, some mischief, some nonsense with all its

02:30 absurd arguments.

02:32 So you better put paid to all that by giving yourself a hard deadline.

02:40 This has to be done by this date full stop.

02:50 So Acharyaji, another question that I wanted to ask you is that, it sometimes happens,

02:58 it has happened with me that if a senior or a colleague of mine, they have done something

03:07 that really offended me, but I conveyed it to them later, not at the present moment,

03:13 but in the heat of the moment, they said something that I did not like and I conveyed it to them

03:19 later.

03:20 So out of, I don't know, out of guilt or what, they started making up for it.

03:24 They started interacting with me more and telling me that, spending time with me so

03:31 that I may come back to the same level with them that I was before, before the incident

03:38 happened.

03:39 But I am not feeling like, I am not able to convince myself to forgive them for that,

03:45 like to go back to the same level.

03:48 So at this point, I don't even want to disrespect that person.

03:53 So what should I exactly do?

03:58 You must be having something good to do in your life, no?

04:03 Or is that person, that colleague, that senior, is that everything to your life?

04:12 So many people say such wild things to me every day.

04:18 If I start remembering all that, then I am done.

04:25 This is not even a question of forgiving.

04:29 You forgive someone only when you at least remember the hurt.

04:35 But then it's not really possible to go back on the same level, like I've known that person

04:45 before.

04:46 But why do you want to have any level with, I do not know which person, why do you want

04:52 to have this leveling thing with this person you are referring to?

04:58 Go back to my first question.

05:00 There must be something worthwhile you have to do in life, right?

05:04 Why don't you focus on that?

05:08 Which year are you in?

05:11 Second year.

05:14 So Kharagpur campus.

05:18 How many sports are you currently playing?

05:21 It's not an allegation, I just want to know.

05:25 Two sports.

05:29 And there are facilities for many more.

05:34 There must be so many cultural clubs, right?

05:38 Dramatics, debating, there would be a film society, there would probably be a literature

05:47 club, there would be a dance society probably.

05:55 When will you make use of all these opportunities?

06:01 If you just keep remembering all these trivial things that happen almost daily with everybody,

06:09 when will you rise to make something of your life?

06:21 No?

06:24 You are already in the second year.

06:26 You just entered the second year or is it about to be completed?

06:30 About to be completed.

06:31 Oh, half the time already gone.

06:35 Oh, now something will happen in the third year as well, then something else will happen

06:43 in the fourth year and that will be all to your IIT story.

06:48 How nice does it sound?

06:51 What did you do in IIT?

06:53 I got offended four times.

06:56 I got offended four times and I spent four years trying to forget and forgive and what

07:02 not, you know, that some Bollywood story.

07:08 How many hours have you spent in the library?

07:12 This is the time to delve into the greatest literature from across the world.

07:19 Till you are in your class 12th, all you read is your Erodo and Resnik Heliday.

07:28 Those were the books in my time, I don't know what goes now.

07:32 So all you read is these PCM books.

07:35 Now is the time to deepen your personality, to know of all the great things that are there

07:43 in the world and you are squandering this time.

07:48 From here you will probably enter some workplace and they will drive you towards productivity

07:54 and you will be working for 10 hours a day and again you will find you don't have enough

07:59 time for self-development.

08:03 After that probably those usual things concerning marriage and kids and such things will come

08:11 and again you will find yourself short of time.

08:16 Don't allow this to just pass by.

08:22 Hold every moment by the collar and extract the maximum value you can.

08:32 And the best way to squander time is by engaging yourself emotionally in some little thing

08:40 and continuously thinking about it.

08:43 Engaging yourself in some little thing?

08:51 These are very precious years, very very precious years.

08:54 Learn as much as you can, develop yourself as much as you can.

08:59 Broaden your personality like the branches of a tree.

09:03 Grow in all possible directions.

09:08 All these things, you know, senior boy, junior girl, leave it to the filmmakers.

09:28 I'm sorry, did I say something that hurt?

09:31 I didn't mean to.

09:37 I just want you to make the best use of your time.

09:40 That's all.

09:41 Thank you.

09:42 Yeah.

09:42 Thank you.

09:46 Yeah.

09:47 Yeah.

09:48 Yeah.

09:49 Yeah.

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