After IIT-IIM, this? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: A basic Mantra - from my life || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2023)

Transcript

00:00So, you too are an alum of the dream institutions like IIT and IIM.

00:04You must have been ambitious.

00:05You took this path of becoming a spiritual revolutionary.

00:09You buy tickets for a bad movie and the movie is 2 hours and 45 minutes.

00:14It takes you one and a half hours to realize it's a bad movie.

00:17There is no hope that some surprise will spring after the recess.

00:21No, nothing.

00:22It's a bad movie.

00:23What to do?

00:24That I have invested Rs.500 and one and a half hours and the cab amount and the popcorn

00:31amount.

00:32I have invested so much.

00:33So, I will sit through the trauma of another one and a half hours.

00:37Would you say that?

00:38A lot of people say that.

00:39Irrespective of the cost you have already incurred, take it as sunk cost.

00:45It's gone.

00:46It cannot be recouped.

00:47But I will not invest into it any further.

00:50What is right must be done.

00:52What is not right must not be done.

00:54It's as simple as that.