Decoding Thought || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Career and Anxiety || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Bombay (2022)

Transcript

00:00When you have to make some decision and maybe you're faced with some anxiety concerns,

00:04how do you tackle those?

00:06Thought by itself never comes to a conclusion.

00:09The nature of thought is self-serving.

00:12Thought wants to roll on.

00:14Thought wants to continue.

00:17And thought can continue only if the problem that the thought is addressing continues.

00:22So it is in the interest of thought to let problems continue.

00:25Which means you cannot end your problems by thinking about them.

00:30You have to act.

00:31That does not mean that you become thoughtless or mindless and you keep thinking aside.

00:36That simply means that you realize the limits of thought.

00:39And if you can realize the limits of thought, your anxiety too will have limits.

00:44Not that anxiety will reduce to zero, but it will have limits.

00:49The limits of thought will become the limits of anxiety.

00:52Act.