Fall in Love With Books || Acharya Prashant

Full video:  Are you smart, or just shallow, young man? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00People are not watching movies or reading books or doing anything in life for the sake

00:07of the higher pleasure or the joy that reading itself, watching itself, the process itself

00:15gives to you.

00:16Today, books are being written in the PPT format, so there are bullet points.

00:21You do not want to enjoy the beauty of language.

00:25You do not want to have, let's say, an 800-page volume in your hands in which paragraphs run

00:33for 4 pages, 6 pages and sentences run for 10 or 12 lines.

00:39Nobody wants to have that kind of patience and it is not really then a crisis or shortage

00:47of patience in itself.

00:48It is a problem with the philosophy of this age.

00:52The book has come to me and my central god is consumption.