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Career and Anxiety || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Bombay (2022)
Breaking Free
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Action
Anxiety
Bhagwat Gita
Decision-making
Freedom
Experimentation
Vedanta
Truth
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that the primary antidote to anxiety and despair is action. He emphasizes that if something is important enough to cause anxiety, one must devote time and space to working on it rather than sitting and brooding. Drawing from the central message of the Bhagwat Gita, he notes that Shri Krishna exhorted Arjun to act and perform his duty instead of weeping or overthinking. He argues that thought is often self-serving and iterative, tending to keep problems alive to sustain itself. Therefore, one must recognize the limits of thought and move into action to break the loop of anxiety.