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00:00How can we motivate the younger generation students to become entrepreneurs?
00:05Do we understand what entrepreneurship is really about?
00:08As their teacher, you want them to be entrepreneurs.
00:11There are students who just want comfort, safety, luxury, security.
00:15What is it within the students that makes them want these things?
00:19Where did the student get these ideas from?
00:22Why do students take the direction they currently take?
00:25The question is where is that choice coming from?
00:29Work is not for the sake of amassing money for consumption.
00:33Work is life itself.
00:35And if you are getting into a job as a job,
00:38then you are destroying life itself.
00:40Can the institution question their pre-existing values
00:44and make space for a cleaner set of values to emerge?
00:48Can't entrepreneurship be an expression of your truest self?
00:52Can't entrepreneurship be a love affair?
00:54An honest way of living this life?
00:57Even if I succeed in motivating him or her,
01:01what kind of entrepreneur would he become?
01:03Then entrepreneurship has to be taught to the parents first.
01:06How can we motivate the younger generation students to become entrepreneurs?
01:10We have to address them where they are firstly.
01:14Where do they stand?
01:16Why doesn't something called entrepreneurship come naturally to them if at all entrepreneurship is something so wonderful?
01:23What is it within them that takes them in whichever direction they currently go?
01:35So going by your question, I assume what you are saying is most of the students are content with and aim at just getting placed, getting safe, secured and fat jobs from home.
01:53Right?
01:54Huh?
01:55That's the point you are coming from?
01:56Huh?
01:57That's the point you are coming from?
01:58Yes.
01:59There are students who just want these things from life.
02:00Comfort, safety, luxury, security.
02:04These are the things that students want.
02:05And as their teacher, you want them to be entrepreneurs.
02:11You know, what is it within the students that makes them want these things?
02:28Why do students take the direction they currently take?
02:36So I am a student and I am saying all I want from the campus is a fat job.
02:45And that's what I came here for and paid the fee for.
02:49Right?
02:50What matters to me is the admissions office and then the placements office.
02:55And that's also the reason I could never be attentive in the classroom.
02:59Because all my thoughts were always centered on placements.
03:04Right?
03:06Where did the student get these ideas from?
03:09Sir, because the college and school marketing like that.
03:13If this college you go, you got this.
03:16So it is very bad thing.
03:21Isn't it right, sir?
03:23That can be a part of the situation.
03:25Yes, definitely.
03:26I too have seen huge billboards marketing the same things that you have said.
03:30Yes, that's a part of the thing.
03:32But that's not always the case.
03:35You know, if you look at the IITs for example, they aren't marketing themselves much.
03:40They don't need to.
03:41Actually, the education should not be marketed, sir.
03:44It should come from within.
03:45Yes, but what I am saying is that even if the IITs are not marketing themselves in that way, still students go even to the IITs for the sake of just placement.
03:53Yes, sir.
03:54That's how students make their choice between the different IITs in different cities.
04:00Sir, but in that sense, the student itself, his brain doesn't work.
04:05They want that.
04:06But the brain is working and the brain is making a choice.
04:09The question is where is that choice coming from?
04:13Right.
04:14So, now then entrepreneurship has to be taught to the parents first.
04:23Right.
04:24Because if the student has been told that the highest ideal of life is consumption and secured consumption.
04:34Not only am I consuming today, even my future is assured.
04:39I have enough to totally fill myself with today.
04:43And I also have enough in my pocket and in my bank to take care of the foreseeable future.
04:48If that has been drilled into the student that this is what you live for.
04:53This is what you study for.
04:55This is what you marry for.
04:57This is what you work for.
04:59That has gone down into the student.
05:02Why would he not take the route he is currently taking?
05:07How do I motivate them to become entrepreneurs or whatever, whatever.
05:11If all that he wants is safety, security and a fat lot of money to eat.
05:19It's a question then of the social value system, right?
05:22Yeah.
05:23Yeah.
05:24Now, with this value system operating from this center, even if I succeed in motivating
05:32him or her, what kind of entrepreneur would he become?
05:39He will say, you know, the purpose of life, I have been convinced is consumption and taking
05:46care of my own dreams, desires, ambitions.
05:49That's the purpose of life.
05:51So, the only reason I have become an entrepreneur is so that I can have even more money.
05:58That's the difference he will say between an employee and an entrepreneur.
06:02The employee's growth is limited.
06:04The entrepreneur can potentially explode into consumption.
06:10What kind of entrepreneurship is this?
06:12Right from day one, he would be planning an exit strategy.
06:17He would be saying, you know, when he would be presenting, let's say his business plan to
06:21an investor, he would be saying exit guaranteed within four years.
06:25This kind of entrepreneurship?
06:28Exit guaranteed within four years?
06:31Or should it be an expression of your love, your heart?
06:35It's like getting into a relationship and saying, you know, exit guaranteed within four years.
06:39What kind of relationship is this?
06:46So, entrepreneurship or no entrepreneurship, as long as we are brought up with the wrong kind
06:54of values, we would remain the stupid people we are.
06:59As long as it is fed to us continuously in our homes, our schools, in marketplaces, in media,
07:09that you exist to be happy through consumption.
07:13This fellow will go for whatever job that pays the most and he will gladly become an entrepreneur too.
07:22As long as entrepreneurship is about making fat bucks, he will become an entrepreneur.
07:30Entrepreneurship in India is on the rise.
07:33All kinds of fancy apps are coming up.
07:37We are having, in fact, a raging debate these days.
07:40What kind of entrepreneurship is India seeing?
07:44Somebody is saying you want a haircut at home.
07:51So, here is my new fancy app.
07:53The barber will visit you at your place.
07:56Dentist will also visit your place, sir.
07:59Dentist will visit your place and you know.
08:02A cinema hall can visit your place.
08:04Anything may happen, sir.
08:05Because of the intelligence.
08:06Yes, yes.
08:07Soon we will have Mars and the dinosaurs visiting our places.
08:12Anything can visit our place.
08:14As long as something yields me money, I will make it visit your place.
08:21Anything can visit your place as long as I make some money from it.
08:27And if money is the objective and some company visits your campus and pays good money, why
08:34shouldn't the student go for it?
08:36Please tell me.
08:37You know, a lot of entrepreneurship happens because the student went unemployed.
08:42If money is available easily through the placement route, the student would take that route.
08:51And there are a lot of startups I know of.
08:54They had to forcibly get into entrepreneurship.
08:57Nothing else to do.
08:59So, back borrow some money from here and there and start something.
09:04And coincidentally, it just worked.
09:07And now they are fabled startups.
09:12One of them is about to come up with an IPO.
09:15Only because the fellow couldn't get a job in the campus.
09:19Rejected in 18 interviews.
09:22Is there a change of center?
09:25Do we understand what entrepreneurship is really about?
09:28Can the institution question their pre-existing values and make space for a cleaner set of values
09:37to emerge?
09:39Can't entrepreneurship be a way of life?
09:42Can't entrepreneurship be an expression of your truest self?
09:46Can't entrepreneurship be a love affair?
09:52An honest way of living this life?
09:56And if it's about honestly living your life, if it's about having a love affair with your work, then probably you don't even necessarily need to be an entrepreneur.
10:09People often ask me, you know, what you are doing is socio-spiritual entrepreneurship.
10:17How did you get into this?
10:18I said first reason.
10:20Nobody else was doing it.
10:22My first effort was to search for a place where such a thing is already happening.
10:30And had a place like that existed, I would have happily remained a worker there, a servant there.
10:39I would have never bothered to start up.
10:47Because it's not about earning this or that or having a name for yourself or being called an entrepreneur.
10:54It's about you and your relationship with this little thing called life.
11:01I have to work, you see.
11:03One works 10, 15, sometimes 18 hours a day.
11:07It's the biggest relationship you have.
11:11It's a relationship far more intimate than the relationship between you, your son, your daughter, your wife, your parents.
11:19Isn't it?
11:21You might say, you know, I am blindly in love with my wife.
11:25You don't spend 18 hours with her every day.
11:28You don't.
11:29You don't.
11:30But you spent 18 hours with your work every day.
11:33At least I do.
11:34And a lot of others as well.
11:37That's the most intimate relationship.
11:40Shouldn't there be love in it?
11:45That's what needs to be taught.
11:47Work is not for the sake of amassing money for consumption.
11:51Work is life itself.
11:53And if you are getting into a job as a job, then you are destroying life itself.
12:01Work is not a means to get a salary check on the 30th.
12:05Work is something that you must deeply be in love with, moment after moment every day of the month.
12:17And then, being an employee is good, being an entrepreneur is good.
12:22Because life is good.
12:24Life is good.
12:25Life is good.
12:33Are you getting it, sir?
12:35We cannot just push students into entrepreneurship.
12:41We cannot say, you know, we now have some funding available on the campus.
12:46We now have an incubation cell on the campus.
12:49At several campuses.
12:50This question has been asked and the functionaries have discussed and they have said now we are even arranging a mentorship program on the campus.
12:58So that there can be more entrepreneurs.
13:01All that is alright.
13:02All that is wonderful.
13:05But where is the value system?
13:08Where is the right centre to operate from?
13:13Where is the relationship between you and your work?
13:15Otherwise somebody could come up with a fresh meat delivery app.
13:26And keep widening the range of animals that the app can slaughter.
13:34Right now it is at 56.
13:36Ducks, turtles, tortoises, even alligator meat.
13:42You can freshly get delivered to your doorsteps.
13:47Is that entrepreneurship?
13:50What kind of life is this?
13:52And the fellows are making really cool money.
13:57Exit is on the cards.
14:01They will make their billions and settle somewhere.
14:07Entrepreneurship is a good thing but a small thing.
14:19The real thing is having the right relationship with work.
14:24Because work is life.
14:26Work is life.
14:27If the right work happens as an employee, wonderful.
14:39As a partner, wonderful.
14:40And for the right work, if you have to start a concern, become an entrepreneur.
14:45But the objective must not be entrepreneurship per se.
14:49The objective must be right work.
14:57Will you describe an entrepreneur�?
15:11Will you share an entrepreneur, do you read it?
15:15din suddenly put an entrepreneur, do you believe in the end of the day?
15:16youtube i started two two and a half years ago i joined uh gita sessions one year ago
15:21so i went through an intense you know seeking phase like from last three years i would say
15:27looking into different directions couldn't find like what i really wanted but i know that there
15:33was acharya jisa so i was seeking multiple things so some things i tried out experimented but
15:40finally what i understood is that all the other spiritual practices which we generally talk about
15:45you know like generally that is framed about they are very much misinterpreted as acharya ji says
15:50acharya ji's teachings have really helped us and to you to to overcome and not fall fall in
15:57in the trap right so i started reading these books too and other videos so this is where books really
16:05help guys i mean acharya ji has books on topics like ego maya right and then when we go through
16:13those books right it gives a better uh knowledge about these things and actually we don't fall
16:20into you know like some delusional traps or tricks when people take up big words and big you know
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