Acharya Prashant: How to get success in whatever I do? The questioner says, “How do I get success in whatever I do?” Success does not lie in doing any random thing. That’s the first, the most important and, probably, the last thing. The game is not at all about picking up some arbitrary thing to do and then, investing yourself fully in it, plunging into it, spending a lot of energy and trying to be successful. That’s not the point.
Do you know why you are doing a certain thing? Are you sure what is worthy enough to be done? That’s the moot question. Choose the right thing to do and in that lies success, in that lies immediate success. Immediate success implies that you have been successful right in the moment of the choice itself. You don’t have to wait for the outcome. In fact, if you have to wait for the outcome to determine whether you have been successful or not, then you are already unsuccessful.
Choose the right option, make the right decision, fight the right battle and, now, it doesn’t matter whether you win or not because you are already victorious.
Victory lies in choosing the right road to walk. It does not quite lie in reaching the destination earlier than others. In fact, it’s a frivolous comparison. Am I reaching there earlier than others? Am I reaching there at all? It’s not about reaching there in a comparative sense earlier than others. It is, in fact, not even about reaching somewhere at all. It is about the immediate moment in which the decision is made. The concept that we carry is that the real battle lies in attainment of the goal. The real battle does not really lie in the attainment of the goal, it lies in determination of the goal, what goal are you picking for yourself and why.
