Critical Thinking in Life Decisions || Acharya Prashant

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00:00We have not been trained in critical thinking when it comes to matters of life.

00:04I find it very interesting and also saddening, obviously.

00:09There are a lot of people who do very well in science and technology, etc.

00:15in their personal spheres are often deeply superstitious.

00:20How are these two things possible?

00:22These are possible because the same education that told us to think sharply

00:28so as to clear the JEE for example, told us to keep all the thinking prowess aside

00:35when it comes to life issues like friendship, like time management, like values,

00:41like money, like love.

00:43When it comes to all these, we behave in the same primitive ways as any uneducated person would.