Full video: Are you smart, or just shallow, young man? || Acharya Prashant, with IIM Calcutta (2022)
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00:00People are not watching movies or reading books or doing anything in life for the sake of the higher pleasure or the joy that reading itself, watching itself, the process itself gives to you.
00:16Today books are being written in the PPT format. So there are bullet points. You do not want to enjoy the beauty of language. You do not want to have let's say an 800 page volume in your hands in which paragraphs run for four pages, six pages and sentences run for 10 or 12 lines.
00:38Nobody wants to have that kind of patience and it is not really then a crisis or shortage of patience in itself. It is a problem with the philosophy of this age. The book has come to me and my central God is consumption.