If you love it, you deserve to have it (Love is the Qualification) || Acharya Prashant (2022)

Questioner (Q): Throughout all these years I have faced a lot of self-doubt. I believe self-doubt is in some way important because it teaches us how to examine oneself. But many times this self-doubt turned into anxiety, and this stopped me from pursuing many of the dreams which could have changed my life and everything. So, how to stop these negative thoughts and pursue the opportunities life has to offer?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Wonderful. What is self-doubt? How do you define it?

Q: I feel that self-doubt is an inner voice which tells me, “No, you cannot do this.”

AP: Cannot do what? What is this ‘this’? Which task? Which specific task?

Q: I feel some people are better than me.

AP: In pursuing…?

Q: In many instances. Becoming the seminars’ head and co-head, for example. At that time I felt like there were other people who could have done it better than me, but I pushed myself to do it; that was one instance.