Knowing When To Exercise Patience And When To Pursue Goals Aggressively
Choose the goal extremely wisely and then it does not matter whether you are failing or succeeding or what. Obviously, you do not want to keep failing continuously. So, you look at the process of living, the process through which you wanted to move towards whatever you chose. And then you make continuous improvements in the process. But all this talk of improvement and everything make sense only if, first of all, the goal is right.
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Questioner: Sir, my question is if the goal seems correct, then how do we decide when to be patient, and when to aggressively pursue a particular goal. For example, from an academic point of view, if we try to attempt an exam and we fail, then how do we decide when to try again and when we should drop it? Like our inner self says, “Try again, try again.” But from different sources we get that we should be dropping it. So how to do this decision making?
Acharya Prashant: You are talking of something academic, something related to your career? What is it that you want to give another try to?
Questioner: Sir, I am asking this generally, not a particular instance. If we have two contradicting thoughts, then how do we decide?
Acharya Prashant: It depends on the worth of your goal. Tactics can be changed. Routes can be changed. But if the goal is worthy enough, how can the goal be changed. One does not choose a goal. One chooses to surrender himself to the goal. Or you could say, “If the goal is chosen rightly, then the goal becomes your life.” But that’s only with respect to the right goal.
