You are given an image to pursue, and that image is a distant one, far off in the future. A villa of your own, two nice cars, two cute kids, a light-skinned wife, such things. That's the worst concept you can subscribe to in life: settling down. What does that mean? Not changing anymore, not improving further, not having the guts or the stamina to be disruptive anymore. We are very loveless people. All we care for is security, and that's why there is so little creativity and innovation here.
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Questioner: Pranam Acharya Ji, my question is related to the chapter The Jungle in a Necktie (Truth Without Apology): “Is education about making a living or having a life worth living?”
I am from the medical stream. After a person clears the MBBS examination and is opting for further courses, when the person is scoring some rank, everyone is so deeply conditioned that they will be opting for, let's say, the branch like orthopedic surgery or medicine which are selling in the society. During the journey of their five and a half years, maybe there were some nonclinical branches, research-based branches they were very much interested in, and the market, the society, the motivation industry, everyone says, "Okay, this rank, this branch; you should take this rank, this branch." In the West, the branches which are research-based are given to the toppers; in contradiction, in India.
Acharya Prashant: We want to become neither doctors nor engineers or anything else. It's not as if we like a particular field or a certain branch. We like nothing. Nothing at all. I am talking of the way our beloved country is. We are just so afraid that we want to get away from our current position. Right? That's the way our upbringing, our culture, our education is, the media, the society, everything.
