A world champion asks why she cannot sleep when a teammate outperforms her, and why even big wins leave her restless. The restlessness is not a problem but unspent energy, a sign that we have more to give. When every bit of our time and attention goes to what we have chosen, there is no surplus left to worry with. The right fight is never only against an opponent; it is against the ego within. What would it mean to fight so fully that nothing is left to celebrate or mourn?
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Questioner: Hello sir, my name is Arya Chaudhary, and I play mixed martial arts. I’m a world champion. I recently came back to India. So my question is that I train, I practice, but I have this constant feeling of unrest in me. Like, I don’t sleep good. I don’t sleep good if someone at the training at the club has outperformed or when we are training, someone did one more repetition of, like, a burpee or something. I cannot sleep. I have to outperform, I have to do good. Only then I’m able to sleep good. And even when I have accomplished something, national championships, Asian championship, whatever, even after that, I feel this constant feeling of unrest inside me. I don’t know, it bothers me a lot. So yeah, that is my question. And it never ends. It never ends. Like, once I have won a championship, once I have performed better at the class, I’m the best at the class, whatever, it does not end. I constantly keep pushing it, like, “Now this is there to accomplish, now this is there to accomplish.” I don’t know, it bothers me. So this is what I wanted to ask you.
Acharya Prashant: You’re a student?
Questioner: Yes, I’m pursuing mechanical engineering from Indore. I belong to Indore.
