How Are We Conned? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Are you smart, or just shallow, young man? || Acharya Prashant, with IIM Calcutta (2022)

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00:00How is it possible that people are being conned so easily?

00:04Somebody tells you I've made a great movie, come and watch it.

00:07You go there, you are the recipient of the visuals and the sounds and the entire experience.

00:13Who but you can for sure declare what the movie is worth for?

00:21How is it possible that you emerge from a third-rate movie and

00:26you do not know how you felt about it?

00:28We do see all kinds of stupid movies succeeding at the box office.

00:34300 crores, 600 crores, 1000 crores.

00:37We see all kinds of rubbish succeeding in the name of literature.

00:41National bestseller, international bestseller,

00:44lakh copies sold, 2 lakh copies sold, 10 lakh copies sold.

00:47And that fellow is peddling nonsense of the worst kind.

00:51Do we care for ourselves?

00:54When I'm reading something, am I asking myself what is the impact this is having on me?

00:59Am I any better off by consuming this literature or this person or this medicine or whatever it is?