Fear isn't the Problem || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Anxiety even after achievement || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Delhi (2022)

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00:00You see there are things that could actually go wrong in life but the probability of such

00:05things happening is miniscule. Emergencies don't happen every day but we live in the fear of those

00:12emergencies every day. For example an air crash. It's not that planes won't crash irrespective

00:18of how advanced we are. There exists a probability of let's say one in ten million of plane crashing

00:24but if you are all the time worried while on the flight that your plane is going to crash

00:29then there is a problem. The mind has nothing better to do than be problemed. If you are on

00:35the flight and you are just occupied with wondering whether the flight is going to crash

00:40then I have to ask why don't we have something better to think about? Why is it that I have not

00:48filled up my life with something more meaningful and purposeful than worries?