Being better than yourself || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: How to drop mediocrity? || Acharya Prashant, Sir J.J. College, Mumbai (2022)

Transcript

00:00How do you overcome the fear of mediocrity?

00:02How do you feel content with your work and motivated to do better even if you do not feel that way?

00:08Your responsibility is to be better than yourself.

00:14You are not to calibrate yourself against other people.

00:19You have to ask yourself how better I am compared to what I was yesterday.

00:26You are on your own individual journey.

00:30It is not possible or wise to compare yourself against others.

00:36That's what all wisdom, all bravery is about.

00:40Being your own best self.

00:42The battle that you fight is not so much against others.

00:47The battle that each of one fights or rather must fight is not so much against others.

00:53That battle has to be primarily against yourself.