Full Video: Are you smart, or just shallow, young man? || Acharya Prashant, with IIM Calcutta (2022)
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00:00How is it possible that people are being conned so easily?
00:04Somebody tells you I've made a great movie, come and watch it.
00:07You go there, you are the recipient of the visuals and the sounds and the entire experience.
00:13Who but you can for sure declare what the movie is worth for?
00:21How is it possible that you emerge from a third-rate movie and
00:26you do not know how you felt about it?
00:28We do see all kinds of stupid movies succeeding at the box office.
00:34300 crores, 600 crores, 1000 crores.
00:37We see all kinds of rubbish succeeding in the name of literature.
00:41National bestseller, international bestseller,
00:44lakh copies sold, 2 lakh copies sold, 10 lakh copies sold.
00:47And that fellow is peddling nonsense of the worst kind.
00:51Do we care for ourselves?
00:54When I'm reading something, am I asking myself what is the impact this is having on me?
00:59Am I any better off by consuming this literature or this person or this medicine or whatever it is?