Become Wiser Earlier || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Mid-life crisis: The return of the Truth || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2023)

Transcript

00:00You want everything early, right?

00:02Today they say you must have a mark at 25

00:04only then life is successful.

00:06People used to buy their first Maruti 800 after retirement.

00:08So a lot of people are getting a lot of things

00:10way too early.

00:12And therefore,

00:14the subsequent disappointment

00:16and disillusionment

00:18also comes earlier.

00:20So the kind of depression people used to experience at 40

00:22is now being experienced at 25.

00:24Because the experiences

00:26that they would accumulate

00:28till 40 are now

00:30being had in a much

00:32shorter time span.

00:34They would take 40 years to have those kind

00:36of experiences that you guys

00:38are having within a

00:40short span of 10-15 years now.

00:42You travel much more, you consume much more.

00:44The internet has

00:46widened the scope of your experiences

00:48much more.

00:50You get into serial relationships which was not happening

00:52earlier. So in some sense

00:54you have the opportunity

00:56to be wizened

00:58much earlier.