Success and failure matter less when your work is driven by love rather than outcomes. Setbacks are opportunities to reflect, not reasons to quit, and true failure comes only when you stop trying. Regret and guilt become meaningful only if they transform you into a different person instead of becoming excuses for self-pity. Real growth begins by questioning your assumptions, facing reality honestly, and living with awareness rather than mechanical habit.
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Questioner: Good evening, sir. So you are in IIT and I am an alumnus, then an ex-civil servant, and then Vedanta scholar. you are investing some years of your life, you are investing some part of your life to these things, to these achievements. So then this question comes to your mind, like it could be a failure also. Is it worth doing these achievements? Like in our field, after doing MBBS, people get stressed out, like for doing PG and then for super specialization. So didn't you get this question?
Acharya Prashant: If I'm alive, how can my work fail? No. Failure is a full stop. If I'm alive, I'm going to try again. Then how have I failed?
You fail not when the results are adverse. You fail when you call it a day. "I'm done." That's the point of failure. If you love something deeply enough, you're never going to stop trying.
