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Video Information: 04.04.23, ITM-Mumbai (Online), Greater Noida
Context:
Why do people fear being judged by others?
How do I get over my fear of being judged by others?
What is Glossophobia?
What does it mean by judging others?
What is the purpose of judging others?
What is judging behavior?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Why do people fear being judged by others?
How do I get over my fear of being judged by others?
What is Glossophobia?
What does it mean by judging others?
What is the purpose of judging others?
What is judging behavior?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00Good evening sir, I am Mayank, I am pursuing MBA from IKM Business School.
00:09The question which I want to ask is that whenever I give a presentation in between my colleagues
00:18or in the college, I always have a question in my back of the mind that I am being judged.
00:29So how to overcome the fear of being judged by the third person?
00:36I want a suggestion from you which I can implement in my day to day work so that it will help
00:44me to grow in future.
00:47Put your heart in that presentation and then your mind will not be in the audience.
00:55When your heart is not in your work, then your mind wanders in the world.
01:05There is a work and then there is the world.
01:09Love your work and then you will forget the world.
01:14Your problem is not that you are too concerned with people's opinions.
01:18Your problem is that there is no heart in your work.
01:24You have made or created a presentation just for the sake of some marks or degree or completing
01:34a formality, ticking a box, something.
01:39If I love what I am doing, how will I have the space to worry or wonder too much about
01:48what the others are thinking?
01:54Think of a cricketer on the pitch and there is a fast bowler rushing at him, 150 kmph
02:07and there is an audience of 80,000, the stadium is jam-packed.
02:19What if the cricketer starts thinking of these 80,000 opinions?
02:26What if he starts looking into these 1,60,000 eyes?
02:31Will he still retain sight of the ball?
02:38Should he look at the ball or should he look into the eyes of the audience?
02:41Please tell me.
02:42He should look at the ball first.
02:45Should his mind be totally absorbed in the game or should he be thinking of how the audience
02:54would react if he misses the ball or hits a six?
02:58He should focus on the game first.
03:00Now, if there is a batsman who is all the time thinking of the audience, what do you
03:07know about him?
03:10That he is mentally disturbed, he is not able to focus in the work which he is doing.
03:16Please don't use words like ability and all, talk of intention.
03:20If there is a batsman who is continuously thinking of the audience, what I know is that
03:23he does not love cricket, right, boils down to love.
03:32Do you love your presentation?
03:38That's the problem.
03:42So go deep into whatever you are doing.
03:45And if something does not deserve the depth of your attention, avoid it.
03:54You cannot give your best to everything.
03:57Not everything deserves your love, avoid those things.
04:03But when you choose something, don't be half-hearted.
04:10Once you have placed your hand on something, bring that thing to your heart, let the distance
04:20be removed.
04:23Half-heartedness is the curse of life.
04:28People live as if they are half-dead, lukewarm lives, neither cold dead nor boiling with
04:42vigor, just lukewarm, 98.4 degrees Fahrenheit, that's lukewarm.
04:56Let there be some temperature.
04:59As a young person, you need some heat.
05:05Are you getting it?
05:14And that's the job of love.
05:19That's the job of love.
05:20It gives you warmth and something beyond warmth.
05:27It makes the inner frozenness boil up.
05:35There is a lot within that needs to simply evaporate.
05:42Love does that.
05:43If there is no love, the internal stuff, all the conditioning and nonsense and trash we
05:50have been carrying since centuries, all that will continue to remain intact within.
05:58If you want your insides to be cleaned up, you need the heat of love, the cleansing power
06:05of love.
06:06Are you getting it?
06:07Yes.
06:08So be just towards your academics, your profession, your relationships, whatever it is that you
06:23are into must bear the imprint of your authenticity.
06:29If you have touched something, it must not now anymore remain mediocre.
06:37Are you getting it?
06:42Even if you get just a small room to live in, let the insides of that room display that
06:52somebody young, original, authentic, loving resides here.
07:05Even if you have an old pair of shoes that you wear, why can't they be polished properly?
07:15This example will not suit all conditions, but please get the drift.
07:20See what I'm pointing at.
07:23If there is something in your life, why must there be a half-hearted approach towards it?
07:30The shoes are there, right?
07:32Well, the shoes are not expensive, I understand, you are a student and the shoes are old and
07:37the shoes to some extent are now worn out, that's okay.
07:43But why can't they still be polished?
07:45That does not cost much.
07:51There has to be a warmth towards life.
07:55Are you getting it?
07:58There has to be a special quality of feeling towards life.
08:04And I'm not talking of biological feelings.
08:06I'm not talking of lust, anger, greed, etc.
08:10I'm talking of that special quality.
08:14So if I'm talking to you, I have to give everything that I have to you.
08:22At this moment, I cannot be half-present, half-attentive.
08:28I have an entire organization to look after, but I have to forget all that.
08:35This moment, it is me and you.
08:39If I'm touching something, I have to give it everything.
08:46Cannot pass through life in a way, in a manner of sleepwalking.
08:58Be conscious, be awake, be loving.
09:04That presentation is not just presentation, that's a period of time and that's your life.
09:12If you cannot be immersed in your presentation, then you're missing out on life itself.
09:21Are you getting it?
09:25And then obviously there will be too much concern for whether the audience has applauded
09:32or is the teacher making note of all the great points that I'm making?
09:39Will I be credited enough for this shabby presentation that I've made?
09:44Allow me the liberty to call it shabby because I've been through the academic process.
09:48Both as a student and as a teacher, a professor, I've been through all that.
09:57So I know how teachers operate.
09:58I know how students think.
10:02We are all just going through the motions, aren't we?
10:09As if we are waiting for some special day in future.
10:12Today does not mean anything.
10:14Today let me just somehow tolerate the time.
10:21Please let me somehow just complete the formalities today.
10:26My day, my golden day, my real day would come sometime in the future.
10:32That will never happen, son.
10:36This is your moment.
10:38This is your life.
10:40That presentation is everything.
10:46That presentation is everything.
10:48When you are making that presentation, that presentation is not just the most important
10:54thing in life.
10:55That is the only thing in life.
10:59How can then you tolerate to be divided?
11:06Half your mind is busy just scanning the audience.
11:10Oh, is she smoking?
11:13Is he sleeping?
11:19Is he making fun of me that one at the back?
11:24Do I see derision on the teacher's face?
11:29Divided.
11:30No, no, you can't afford to be divided.
11:38Live fully.
11:41And if, and if there is stuff that does not deserve your fullness, drop it.
11:53Just drop it.
11:54Have the guts.
11:57Because I fully agree that not everything in life deserves the wholeness of your love.
12:07You have to be discreet.
12:11The point when you can be unconditionally loving towards everyone and everything comes
12:17way later in life.
12:21At that point, there are no boundaries.
12:25When you reach that point, then you don't have to make distinctions.
12:29But standing where you are, you must learn to make distinctions.
12:34You have to be discreet.
12:35You have to see what is it that deserves your time, energy, love, attention.
12:42And when you discover that, you plunge into it.
12:47You immerse yourself, you sink into it, you allow yourself to be drowned.
12:55You allow yourself to fall dead.
12:59Dead in terms of your concern for the world.
13:01I am dead to the world because I'm immersed in my work.
13:05Yes, sir.
13:09Yes.
13:11Thank you, sir.
13:31Thank you.