The Key to Overcoming Difficulties in JEE and Life || Acharya Prashant (2024)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Namaste Acharya ji. My question was regarding a tendency that I have always had all my life.

00:11It was regarding quitting things when they get extremely tough. Like I will give you

00:15a short example. Let's say when I was preparing for my JEE, there were questions

00:20that were kind of easy, like that formula-based. There were questions that were kind of medium

00:25level. And then there were questions which were very tough and they like, you know,

00:29find multiple concepts. So I usually went with the easy questions and I solved them

00:34and when it came to the tougher questions, I quit. How do I like change this tendency?

00:38How do I address this tendency and get better? How do I…

00:41It's about the self-concept that we carry. That self-concept is not innate, but it gets

00:48built over the several years. If your self-concept tells you, you do not deserve to crack the

00:56toughest question, then you will not put everything into cracking the toughest question.

01:02In fact, you will needlessly make any question the toughest one. You have to tell yourself

01:11that you deserve to solve even the toughest problem and then the tough problem is no more

01:18that tough. One has to love himself a bit more and say, yes, it's difficult, but for me it's doable.

01:36If situations, upbringing, media, influences, education, they have all conditioned you into

01:43thinking that you must always stay one level below the best, then something very strange will happen.

01:52Even when the opportunity to be the best will come to you, you will miss out on that opportunity.

02:03It happens a lot of times in sports. Great players belonging to the A-league, you understand the A-league?

02:13Just one level below the topmost level, let's say the international level.

02:18Great players belonging to the A-league performing magnificently, when they finally get a chance

02:27at the highest level, they flop decimally. Why? Why? Something in them is constantly whispering,

02:38you are great but only at the penultimate level. This top level is not for you.

02:50So, batsman who has been performing greatly at the Ranji and the Delhi trophy levels,

02:59he gets his test cap and five consecutive times he gets out to pretty harmless deliveries,

03:12pretty harmless deliveries.

03:14In the domestic circuit, he has been constantly dispatching similar deliveries to boundaries.

03:22In a domestic match, if you give him a similar delivery, he will flick it to the boundary.

03:30But in the international match, a similar delivery and he loses his wicket. Why?

03:36Something in him tells him, I don't belong to the topmost level.

03:44That has to be challenged.

03:47Whosoever it is who told you that you are not good enough has to be rejected.

03:56And we all have influences in our life whose job has been to tell us that we are not good enough.

04:05In matters of love, love itself is the qualification.

04:11No other qualification is needed.

04:14Nobody else is needed to tell you that you are good enough.

04:17If you love something, you are already good enough for it.

04:20Love is the qualification.

04:23If you love mathematics, your love makes you good enough.

04:28You don't require an external agency to come and certify how good you are.

04:33I love it and I will keep having a go at it.

04:38Getting it?

04:43Tell yourself, yes, it's a tough problem.

04:46But I am tougher.

04:49Baap kaun hai?

04:52Tu tough hai?

04:55Am I tougher?

04:58Thank you, sir.

05:04Pranam Acharya ji.

05:06So you said that one should first stop and reflect what he is doing.

05:12Isn't that also a choice?

05:15Everything is a choice.

05:18To be alive is to be responsible for choosing every moment.

05:25You cannot give up that responsibility.

05:28And those who do not take that responsibility, they become slaves.

05:31Slaves don't have choices.

05:34In fact, that's the very definition of slavery.

05:37You will not have choice anymore.

05:40Now you are a slave.

05:43Can it be called love?

05:46Yes, of course.

05:49How else will you choose?

05:52If you choose in compulsion, that is no choice at all.

05:55So the only right basis of choice has to be love.

05:59If you love without understanding, then that's just basic animalistic attraction.

06:05Even animals are attracted.

06:08But human beings love.

06:11And to love is to first of all understand.

06:14So understanding has to be the basis of choice.

06:18And that requires constant attention.

06:21You have to be present.

06:24From that comes choice.

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