Learn to ask “Why?” || Acharya Prashant

Recalling my days in the campus || Acharya Prashant, at IIM-Ahmedabad (2020) - YouTube

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00:002002 end of February and you have the Gujarat riots and I'm in the campus and on the day of

00:05the campus 28th of Feb 2002 I'm going from the campus to the railway station and I'm witnessing

00:11the globally infamous Gujarat riots first hand. I'm seeing what is going on. Then 9-11 that was

00:172001 now I am in the campus right I'm in the dorm and there are these two planes flying into the

00:22twin towers and you are forced to think if money is everything if material is everything if

00:26prosperity is everything if the so-called happiness is everything why is this happening?

00:32These are things that make you really think unless you are totally preoccupied with your

00:37personal stuff like career or relationships or girlfriend or something you are a living being

00:42and your sense of inquiry your inquisitiveness your analytical skills your logical skills

00:48are not there just to apply on a particular balance sheet or a strategy problem right

00:52you look at the world in general and you apply your analytical skills.