Success achieved under pressure or conditioning is not true success because the goal was never truly one's own. Before chasing any achievement, one must ask whether the desire is authentic or borrowed from society. Real change comes not from becoming stronger but from gaining clarity and honesty about oneself. Young people are already capable; what keeps them trapped is the comfort of obeying external expectations. Life is too short to spend serving invisible masters instead of pursuing what one genuinely loves and understands.
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Questioner: So my question is based on a scenario. Imagine a young person who has spent their whole life being a high achiever. Since childhood, they have been rewarded with praise and love only when they met a certain benchmark.
Acharya Prashant: Can you speak without looking?
Questioner: Sure.
Acharya Prashant: So, from childhood, we have been taught that if we achieve something in life, we will get rewarded for that, like achieving a grade, achieving a good trophy, achieving a specialized tag, then we will get rewarded for that. And we just fall into that rat race of achieving a particular thing. So, do you think this is the right way, or do we need to get some enlightenment? Our psychological strength needs to be recognized in ourselves.
