Full Video: The Influencers you follow on social media || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Roorkee (2022)
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00:00Why do you say that mathematics has to be applied only to numbers?
00:05Mathematics is not necessarily numerical. You get what I'm trying to say.
00:10Why can't the same spirit of inquiry be present to everything in life? When that same inquiry
00:16I will not accept without verification.
00:19I will not take anything just because it seems to be coming from a particular
00:24authority or high seat or respectable position.
00:27I will not take it. The first freedom is to be free to question. To question others and to question
00:35yourself. I feel like doing this, but why? Why should I be a dictator unto myself?
00:40So if you have a book written by those influencers, pause at every sentence. Though most of them don't write books.
00:47You don't have anything worth writing. Pause at every sentence. Analyze.
00:51Just refuse to move to the next sentence till you are contented with the current one and the previous ones.