Is dissatisfaction necessary for progress? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Maturity

Is dissatisfaction necessary for progress? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Acharya Prashant

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Is dissatisfaction necessary for progress? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Disatisfied how do you feel? Tell me.

Listener: Sir, I feel afraid, I feel insecure, and a lot of questions.

Speaker: Right, you feel afraid, you feel insecure and a lot of questions – can we call them doubts? You feel doubtful.

Look at the flow that is coming to us. Progress requires that you must be dissatisfied. Dissatisfaction means that you are afraid, doubtful and insecure. Now if you are doubtful, afraid and insecure, what kinds of action will you take? Will you take healthy actions? Will those actions be good for you? When you are afraid, doubtful and insecure can you really take actions that are good for you? A fearful mind, an insecure mind, can it really take actions that are good for you? Look clearly at it. You are afraid, you are shivering and you do not know; you are highly confused. Now can you take a good decision in this moment? Can you?

(The listener smiles)

Speaker: Now, you are smiling, now you know that you can’t, right?

Listener: Yes sir.

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