Studying for money || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Why an IITian loses focus - and what's the purpose of life || Acharya Prashant, IIT Kharagpur (2021)

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00:00Most people excel only when that excellence leads to capital gains, only when that excellence

00:07leads to monetary benefits.

00:08And that's why so many people stop studying the moment they enter NIT or NIM or they at

00:15least are not at their best.

00:17That is because, you know, it's not studies fundamentally or books fundamentally or knowledge

00:21fundamentally that attracted them.

00:23What attracted them was the prospect of plumb placements.

00:27The moment that placement is assured or obtained, the fire dies down, so that should not be

00:32there.

00:33Remain the same person throughout your life, the same person that had not yet cleared the

00:37JEE but was raring to clear the JEE.

00:41The same person who was printing and putting in 10, 12, 16 hours a day.

00:46That you cannot do if you are studying for the sake of money because money will come

00:50and once money comes, then you will be easily satisfied, therefore you must have a very

00:55very high purpose in life.