Critical Thinking || Acharya Prashant

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Transcript

00:00Why do you give so many gaps when you are speaking?

00:03Sometimes you seem to pause even for a minute, 60 entire seconds.

00:08Why do you do that?

00:09And I ask them, what is your problem?

00:11If I give you thinking space, if I give you breathing space,

00:14you know what the problem is?

00:15We are accustomed to being steamrolled.

00:18Just come and run me over.

00:20Don't give me time and opportunity to think

00:23because I've lost the capacity to think.

00:26And if you'll give me the opportunity to think,

00:28I will feel irritated.

00:29I can imagine, I can waste myself in worries,

00:33fancies and dreams I like,

00:36but critical thinking I abhor.

00:39Why must that be the case, please?

00:41And remember, the world throws so many things at you continuously.

00:46If you will not have the filter of thought and inquiry,

00:50you will be enslaved and exploited.