Why do we need goals? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Choose your goals carefully || Acharya Prashant, with NIT-Silchar (2022)

Transcript

00:00Don't just say, which goal to choose?

00:03What goal is best for me?

00:04Bring yourself into the picture.

00:06Because all this activity is very subjective.

00:09Remember that it is all for you.

00:12Remember that it is not a universal or a social thing.

00:15You have a life to live, therefore you are setting a goal for yourself.

00:20You have a life to live, therefore you are setting a goal for yourself.

00:25Now if life is already alright, I am talking of your life, now if your life is already

00:29alright, why must there be a goal?

00:32A goal is needed only when something needs to be set right.

00:36A goal is an exercise in correction.

00:38So ask yourself, what is it that I need to address and correct?

00:42What is it in me, first of all, that demands to be rectified?

00:46And that will tell you what your goal must be.