Why critical thinkers conform? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00I find it very interesting and also saddening obviously that a lot of people who do very well

00:06in science and technology etc in their personal spheres are often deeply superstitious. How are

00:13these two things possible? These are possible because the same education that told us to think

00:20sharply so as to clear the J for example told us to keep all the thinking prowess aside when it

00:28comes to life issues like motivation, like purposefulness, like friendship, like time

00:34management, like values, like money, like love. Even if you do not work as a mechanical engineer

00:42still if you can retain the faculty of critical thought your education has not been wasted on you

00:49but we do not retain that. In the classroom we are very inquisitive. In life we are simply submissive

00:56and subordinate. We just accept anything.