How to overcome procrastination? || Acharya Prashant, at LIT-nagpur (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Good afternoon Acharya ji, my name is Shubham Mote, I am from 3rd year CT.

00:08My question to you is that how can I stop procrastination?

00:13Actually I am a kind of student who has developed the ability of procrastination from my childhood

00:18only.

00:19It has been a habit for me from my childhood and now I am not able to stop it.

00:27While finding the solution on procrastination, I have come over a term known as neuroplasticity.

00:35Someone who don't know what is neuroplasticity, it is the ability of brain to reorganize its

00:40cells in such a way when conditions like stress or anything come to humans to revive from

00:52it the brain's function and reorganize its cell in such a way that it will develop itself.

01:01So how can spirituality help me in reorganizing my brain cells to overcome procrastination?

01:11See procrastination is not a problem.

01:16There might actually be instances where procrastination is advisable.

01:27Procrastination in the form of postponement I mean, where it is advisable.

01:34The problem is not procrastination.

01:39The problem is the inability to understand life.

01:46The problem is the inability to understand a situation.

01:51The same people who say that they procrastinate a little are sometimes also the ones who say

01:59we are very trigger happy when it comes to tempting situations.

02:09We have no patience at all when it comes to alluring situations, which means something

02:18I should have ideally waited for, for three hours, I jumped into it right now.

02:28Now how is it possible?

02:30On the one hand, you say that something that needed to be done today, you postponed it

02:36for three days.

02:38On the other hand, you say there was stuff that you should have been patient with, instead

02:45you immediately jumped into it.

02:47How is it possible?

02:50It is possible only because you do not understand what's going on.

02:55You do not know what's important and what is not.

03:00Some ridiculous kind of idea is coming to your mind.

03:05Why should you not postpone it?

03:07What's the problem?

03:10And something that is important and deserves to be taken up right now has appeared to you.

03:18Why should you not execute it immediately?

03:24That which is worthy enough must be undertaken right now and that which is unworthy should

03:34definitely be postponed even if it appears very tempting.

03:39We display patience where we should be executing immediately and we execute that which should

03:52have been postponed indefinitely.

03:56That is the problem.

03:57We do not know the worth of the various options life presents us with in the moment.

04:09Are you getting it?

04:12You should know what is important.

04:13That which is important should be taken up.

04:16That which is not important or rather harmful should be duly postponed.

04:23If you are mixing up the two, the reason is not habit, the reason is the inability

04:30to understand the worth of the various options in front of you.

04:36Do we understand what is important, what is not?

04:39Do we know who I am and therefore what is important for me?

04:44That is the problem.

04:45Neuroplasticity, etc. keep them aside.

04:49They don't matter.

04:53If you are thirsty, do you procrastinate water?

04:57Because you know it is important.

04:59This lack of knowing is your problem.

05:02You do not know what is important to you.

05:10And pushing something into the future can be a very useful tool also, mind it.

05:20While thoughts are coming to you, you are angry and some random idea pops up in the

05:30mind, postpone it.

05:33The idea might be so powerful that you feel unable to just totally dismiss it.

05:41If you can't totally dismiss it, at least postpone it.

05:46Shift it to the future.

05:51Getting it?

05:54Procrastination basically means your heart is not in the thing because you do not know

05:59the value of the thing.

06:02Let your life involve things that can be loved and then you will not need to postpone.

06:32I hope and I am sure that the questions asked by the students and all the students, I am

06:50sure you got your answers and all those who have not asked the questions, I think on behalf

06:59of you the questions were asked and you must be having these kind of questions in your mind.

07:10What is the aim of today's interaction?

07:16You should ask yourself.

07:18What you got?

07:21And I think in simple words, you got the way how to channelize your thoughts in right direction

07:35to achieve something higher and higher.

07:39I think that is the outcome of this interaction.

07:47I thank you Acharya ji for being with us and we had a long session, much longer than

07:58what we had planned and all the students sat through and I feel sorry that few are standing

08:09for almost more than two hours.

08:15This is something and I am sure no one was waiting when the session will end.

08:24No one was even thinking about it.

08:28Just sitting and listening and this has happened because whatever the questions, the representative

08:37questions came in, all those questions were and are in these young minds.

08:46Thank you very much.

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