I am not talking of your confidence arising from skill or knowledge. I am talking of your confidence arising from the realization that no business is God. And that the Truth remains with you even if your business fails and the Truth does not get amplified even if your business prospers. Read more....
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Questioner: Sir, there are certain reactions which come so instantly, like you once said that There are certain reactions within which I am able to see with, just like a drop of a hat. For example; my wife, whenever she speaks anything about business, I just go mad. I've tried this also and I have tried that also. At times, I presume that she believes that I'm incompetent but somehow I am not able to help it. That reaction is so instant that the moment she says something about business and I just shout, I just scream.
Acharya Prashant: When you feel more sure of yourself then this tendency will reduce. If I really, really know that I am beautiful you cannot make me feel ugly. But I must then be in total sureness. I cannot be in total sureness if I am worrying a lot about my business if it means a lot to me. Because I worry a lot about the state of my business, I am actually worrying a lot about my capacity to handle my business. Which means I am not very sure of my own capacity to live with the business, to manage it, to come out unharmed, untouched by it. I take business now as a challenge, as something that can really overpower me or dominate me. It now becomes something very meaningful.
Now, I have given it a place that it does not deserve. Now, I have made it some kind of an equivalent of Truth. And when something becomes an equivalent of Truth, you become too small in front of it. That is called “living in an inferiority complex.” When you are feeling inferior then even an innocuous touch can hurt you.
