Work vs Fun || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Is it okay to enjoy and have fun as a teenager? || Acharya Prashant, with NIT-Jamshedpur (2023)

Transcript

00:00Even before you turn 17 or 18, you are already stuffed with very toxic concepts that fun

00:07and work are mutually exclusive.

00:09What a bad concept this is.

00:11If fun and work are mutually exclusive, then work can never be fun.

00:14And if work can't be fun, then you are condemning yourself to very loveless kind of work.

00:19But work you will, for a dozen hours a day.

00:22How will you bear those hours of work then?

00:25In frustration, in strife, in conflict.

00:27Choose your work so that you don't have to look for fun elsewhere.

00:31When the work is just to follow the crowd, how can work be fun?

00:35Fun does not lie in ingratiating yourself.

00:39Fun lies in standing bravely in front of challenges.

00:44That's the only fun possible in life.

00:46There is something that you thought you couldn't stand, but you anyway decided to challenge

00:51it.

00:52And you found that you are more powerful than you thought.

00:55That's fun.

00:56That's adventure.

00:57What else is there?