Guinness World Record || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Why Fast Minds Need to Master Slowness? || Acharya Prashant (2021)

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00:00A fellow might say, I am the world's best rat hunter.

00:03Some talent show will come and pick you up and say,

00:06you know, his name needs to go to the Guinness Book.

00:08He's a great rat hunter.

00:09Most people who we admire as very talented people or high achievers

00:14are exactly this, rat hunters.

00:16No doubt, they have excellence.

00:18But must we not bother to ask,

00:20is this the field you needed to excel in?

00:23That's what most of us waste our lives doing.

00:27If life is a six digit number,

00:28we pick up either the last digit or the second last digit

00:32and we spend all our energy and time trying to maximize it.

00:36What's more, we succeed in maximizing it.

00:38What do we get?

00:39The real thing never gets done.

00:41The top digit never gets addressed.