Video Information: 22.11.2022, LIT - Nagpur, Maharashtra
Description:
In this insightful session, Acharya Ji addresses a student's query about overcoming procrastination, a habit the student has struggled with since childhood. Acharya Ji emphasizes that procrastination itself is not inherently problematic; rather, the real issue lies in the inability to discern what is truly important in life. He explains that individuals often exhibit impatience towards tempting distractions while postponing tasks that genuinely require immediate attention.
Acharya Ji highlights the importance of understanding the value of various options presented in life. He suggests that procrastination often stems from a lack of awareness about what truly matters to us. By recognizing the significance of our tasks and aligning our actions with our values, we can overcome procrastination. He encourages the audience to engage in activities they love, which will naturally diminish the need to procrastinate. The session concludes with a reflection on the importance of channeling thoughts in the right direction to achieve higher goals.
Context:
~ How to stop procrastination?
~ Why am I not able to stop procrastinating?
~ Can procrastination ever be advisable?
~ Are we really procrastinators, or we just don't understand?
~ Why do we feel lazy before something important?
~ Why do we feel very sleepy a night before exams?
~ What is healthy procrastination?
~ What is our real problem?
~ Is Procrastination very useful?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant #youth
Description:
In this insightful session, Acharya Ji addresses a student's query about overcoming procrastination, a habit the student has struggled with since childhood. Acharya Ji emphasizes that procrastination itself is not inherently problematic; rather, the real issue lies in the inability to discern what is truly important in life. He explains that individuals often exhibit impatience towards tempting distractions while postponing tasks that genuinely require immediate attention.
Acharya Ji highlights the importance of understanding the value of various options presented in life. He suggests that procrastination often stems from a lack of awareness about what truly matters to us. By recognizing the significance of our tasks and aligning our actions with our values, we can overcome procrastination. He encourages the audience to engage in activities they love, which will naturally diminish the need to procrastinate. The session concludes with a reflection on the importance of channeling thoughts in the right direction to achieve higher goals.
Context:
~ How to stop procrastination?
~ Why am I not able to stop procrastinating?
~ Can procrastination ever be advisable?
~ Are we really procrastinators, or we just don't understand?
~ Why do we feel lazy before something important?
~ Why do we feel very sleepy a night before exams?
~ What is healthy procrastination?
~ What is our real problem?
~ Is Procrastination very useful?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
#acharyaprashant #youth
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LearningTranscript
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
02:00we 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.
05:17Mind it.
05:20While thoughts are coming to you, you are angry and some random idea pops up in the
05:30mind.
05:32Postpone 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.
06:10I am Dr. Vinod on behalf of faculty, students and staff of Lakshmi Nair Institute of Technology.
06:26I thank Acharya ji for this live interaction.
06:34I 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.
08:16This 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, all those questions were and are in these young minds.
08:46Thank you very much.