Knowing Your Strengths and Weaknesses || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Use this method to know your strengths and weaknesses || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2023)

Transcript

00:00I have always been taught to never voluntarily talk about your strengths and abilities to somebody else.

00:05In your dream, you are a beggar. Should you be ashamed of it?

00:10In your dream, you are a champion wrestler. Should you boast of your strength?

00:14Should you?

00:15It's not about not being loud about your strengths.

00:20It's also not about focusing on your weaknesses.

00:24It's about realizing that what you call as your strengths are not strengths at all.

00:30What you call as your weaknesses are not weaknesses at all.

00:34And what you call as your strengths and weaknesses are not yours at all.

00:41That's what humility is, to know oneself.

00:44Real humility is self-knowledge.

00:47And when you know yourself, you realize how small you are.

00:51That's humility.

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