To-Done: Fixing Your List || Acharya Prashant, at SPIT Mumbai (2022) - YouTube
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00:00When you pen down something, when you assign a task to yourself, ask, is it important?
00:05If it is not important, why must I pretend to give it importance?
00:10Why must I even jot this thing down?
00:14Let me be bold enough to simply omit it or strike it out.
00:18And if something is indeed important, why can't I sit with it for five minutes and appreciate
00:25its importance?
00:26If something is important, don't just write down four words about it.
00:32Give four minutes to it.
00:33Just four minutes.
00:34And ask yourself, why is this thing important?
00:37So we see the problem lies not in the absence of willpower, but in the absence of understanding.
00:43Most of us complain of lack of motivation.
00:46That is hardly a problem.
00:47Because motivation helps nobody.
00:49You do not require motivation.
00:50You require realization.
00:52You do not realize whether something is important.