How Chance Shapes Careers || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Have Relationships Become Just a Convenience? || Acharya Prashant (2024)

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00:00You were about to tick something in your entrance exam paper.

00:03Last minute, some random fly comes and lands on your nose.

00:08And you get busy with the fly.

00:09And instead of marking option D, you mark option C.

00:12So your rank falls by 10.

00:14So instead of getting electrical, you get mechanical.

00:16And because you get mechanical department,

00:19so you get into an altogether stream of career,

00:22different stream of career, no?

00:23And why did that happen?

00:24That random fly came and sat on your nose.

00:27Son, you are a mechanical engineer.

00:29You must work only in the mechanical industry.

00:32What mechanical engineer?

00:33That fly?

00:33Had there been an entire swarm of them,

00:36maybe I could have become a computer engineer.

00:38It's all very situational, though it hurts us to accept that.

00:42When you see that it's all situational,

00:43then you do not feel it very important to be attached with anything.

00:49Because anything came to me just by chance.

00:52Therefore, what obligation do I have to stay committed to it?