A small tip for time management || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2023)
Questioner (Q): Sir, I had a question, it's not regarding spiritualism, but I see you as a graduate of IIT and engineer. You graduated from IIM, then you did civil services. So, I wanted to ask, how versatile you are and how your time management was, like how were you able to crack so many different fields, like Commerce, Science and Arts.
Acharya Prashant (AP): I respect time a lot because I know that everybody, including me, has only a limited supply of it. So, that's one thing that I really dislike, a day badly spent and that's a battle I always keep fighting. Check where your time is going. Ensure that not a moment is wasted.
Q: How do we prioritize your tasks? What to do and when to do?
AP: No. You must know what is important, and that must be done. Where is the question of prioritization? You know what is important. Don't you know what is important? Everybody knows what is important. It is just that we do not remain alert enough and sensitive enough and honest enough, and in spite of knowing what is important we do something else. Is that not the real problem? Or is the problem that you do not know what is important? I'm asking you, please. More often, what is the problem?
Q: Not doing.
AP: Not doing what you already know to be important. So, we already know, at least, what is relatively important. We might not know what is absolutely important, but if you know what is relatively important, then why do you indulge in other things? And you must have a love for learning. Another name for deconditioning, another name for love is learning. In spite of, irrespective of how occupied I am, I carry multiple devices and more than a hundred tabs are always open in each of them and I leave those tabs open because I revisit whatever I have read.
