00:00Good evening sir, I am Mayank, I am pursuing MBA from ITM Business School.
00:11The question which I want to ask is that whenever I give a presentation in between my colleagues
00:19or in the college, I always have a question in my back of the mind that I am being judged
00:29so how to overcome the fear of being judged by the third person.
00:37I want a suggestion from you which I can implement in my day-to-day work so that it will help
00:45me to grow in future.
00:48Put your heart in that presentation and then your mind will not be in the audience.
00:56When your heart is not in your work then your mind wanders in the world.
01:07There is your work and then there is the world.
01:11Love your work and then you will forget the world.
01:16Your problem is not that you are too concerned with people's opinions.
01:20Your problem is that there is no heart in your work.
01:25You have made or created a presentation just for the sake of some marks or degree or completing
01:36a formality, ticking a box, something.
01:41If I love what I am doing, how will I have the space to worry or wonder too much about what
01:50the others are thinking.
01:55Think of a cricketer on the pitch and there is a fast bowler rushing at him and 150 kmph.
02:09And there is an audience of 80,000, the stadium is jam-packed.
02:21What if the cricketer starts thinking of these 80,000 opinions?
02:28What if he starts looking into these 1,60,000 eyes?
02:32Will he still retain sight of the ball?
02:39Should he look at the ball or should he look into the eyes of the audience?
02:43Please tell me.
02:44He should look at the ball first.
02:47Should his mind be totally absorbed in the game or should he be thinking of how the audience
02:55would react if he misses the ball or hits a six?
02:58He should focus on the game first.
03:01Right.
03:02Now, if there is a batsman who is all the time thinking of the audience, what do you know
03:08about him?
03:10That he is mentally disturbed, he is not able to focus on the work which he is very popular.
03:17No, don't use words like ability and all, talk of intention.
03:21If there is a batsman who is continuously thinking of the audience, what I know is that he does
03:25not love cricket.
03:26Yes.
03:27Right?
03:28Yes.
03:29It boils down to love.
03:33Do you love your presentation?
03:35Not that much.
03:42That's the problem.
03:43So go deep into whatever you are doing.
03:46And if something does not deserve the depth of your attention, avoid it.
03:55You cannot give your best to everything.
03:58Not everything deserves your love.
04:02Avoid those things.
04:05But when you choose something, don't be half-hearted.
04:11Once you have placed your hand on something, bring that thing to your heart.
04:20Let the distance be removed.
04:24Half-heartedness is the curse of life.
04:29People live as if they are half-dead.
04:34Lukewarm lives.
04:37Neither cold dead, nor boiling with vigour.
04:46Just lukewarm.
04:4898.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
04:52That's lukewarm.
04:57Let there be some temperature.
05:00As a young person, you need some heat.
05:08Are you getting it?
05:14Yes.
05:15And that's the job of love.
05:20That's the job of love.
05:21It gives you warmth and something beyond warmth.
05:28It makes the inner frozenness boil up.
05:35There is a lot within that needs to simply evaporate.
05:43Love does that.
05:44If there is no love, if there is no love, the internal stuff, all the conditioning and nonsense
05:51trash we have been carrying since centuries, all that will continue to remain intact within.
06:00If you want your insides to be cleaned up, you need the heat of love.
06:06The cleansing power of love.
06:12Are you getting it?
06:14Yes.
06:15So, be just towards your academics, your profession, your relationships, whatever it is that you
06:25are into, must bear the imprint of your authenticity.
06:31If you have touched something, it must not now anymore remain mediocre.
06:41Are you getting it?
06:44Even if you get just a small room to live in, let the insides of that room display that
06:54somebody young, original, authentic, loving resides here.
07:07Even if you have an old pair of shoes that you wear, why can't they be polished properly?
07:13This example will not suit all conditions, but please get the drift.
07:21See what I am pointing at.
07:23If there is something in your life, why must there be a half-hearted approach towards it?
07:30The shoes are there, right?
07:33Well, the shoes are not expensive, I understand, you are a student, and the shoes are old, and
07:38the shoes, to some extent, are now worn out.
07:41That's okay.
07:42But why can't they still be polished?
07:46That does not cost much.
07:51There has to be a warmth towards life.
07:56Are you getting it?
07:59Are you getting it?
08:00There has to be a special quality of feeling towards life.
08:06And I am not talking of biological feelings.
08:07I am not talking of lust, anger, greed, etc.
08:11I am talking of that special quality.
08:15So if I am talking to you, I have to give everything that I have to you.
08:23At this moment, I cannot be half-present, half-attentive.
08:30I have an entire organization to look after.
08:33But I have to forget all that.
08:36This moment, it is me and you.
08:41If I am touching something, I have to give it everything.
08:47Cannot pass through life in a manner of sleepwalking.
08:59Be conscious, be awake, be loving.
09:06That presentation is not just presentation.
09:08That's a period of time, and that's your life.
09:13If you cannot be immersed in your presentation,
09:17then you are missing out on life itself.
09:23Are you getting it?
09:25Yes, sir.
09:27And then, obviously, there will be too much concern for whether the audience has applauded,
09:33or is the teacher making note of all the great points that I am making?
09:40Will I be credited enough for this shabby presentation that I have made?
09:45Allow me the liberty to call it shabby, because I have been through the academic process,
09:50both as a student and as a teacher, a professor.
09:54I have been through all that.
09:58So, I know how teachers operate.
10:00I know how students think.
10:03We are all just going through the motions, aren't we?
10:10As if we are waiting for some special day in future.
10:13Today does not mean anything.
10:15Today let me just somehow tolerate the time.
10:22Please let me somehow just complete the formalities today.
10:28My day, my golden day, my real day, would come sometime in the future.
10:34That will never happen, son.
10:37This is your moment.
10:39This is your life.
10:41That presentation is everything.
10:48That presentation is everything.
10:49When you are making that presentation, that presentation is not just the most important
10:55thing in life.
10:56How can then you tolerate to be divided?
11:07Half your mind is busy just scanning the audience.
11:11Oh, is she smirking?
11:15Is he sleeping?
11:20Is he making fun of me, that one, at the back?
11:25Do I see derision on the teacher's face?
11:30Divided.
11:31No, no.
11:32You can't afford to be divided.
11:39Live fully.
11:42And if there is stuff that does not deserve your fullness, drop it.
11:53Just drop it.
11:56Have the guts.
11:58Because I fully agree that not everything in life deserves the wholeness of your love.
12:09You have to be discreet.
12:13The point when you can be unconditionally loving towards everyone and everything comes way
12:19later in life.
12:23At that point, there are no boundaries.
12:26When you reach that point, then you don't have to make distinctions.
12:31But standing where you are, you must learn to make distinctions.
12:35You have to be discreet.
12:36You have to see what is it that deserves your time, energy, love, attention.
12:43And when you discover that, you plunge into it.
12:47You immerse yourself.
12:51You sink into it.
12:53You allow yourself to be drowned.
12:56You allow yourself to fall dead.
13:00Dead in terms of your concern for the world.
13:03I am dead to the world because I am immersed in my work.
13:05Dead in terms of your concern for the world.
13:21Dead in terms of your concern.
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