Valuetainment - April 16, 2026


“The Fear Of FAILURE” - Sadhguru UNCOVERS The Mind Games KILLING Your Potential

Topics
failure land geography rides motorcycles
Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Guatama Buddha Sadhguru Manzoor Mysore
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Episode Stats


Length

11 minutes

Words per minute

164.93

Word count

1,902

Sentence count

184

Harmful content

Toxicity

3

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this episode, I am joined by Sadhguru to talk about his life and how he has managed to overcome a lot of challenges in his life. He talks about his childhood, how he dealt with his siblings and the challenges that he has faced in life and what he has done to overcome them.

Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Who do you think you are?
00:00:31.800 If the mirror is put in front of you,
00:00:34.280 who do you think Sadhguru is?
00:00:37.220 Just pure life.
00:00:39.740 No mess up with anything.
00:00:43.220 No philosophy, no ideology, no belief system, no nothing.
00:00:47.940 I have not been messed by the world in which I live.
00:00:50.700 I'm just the way the Creator intended life to be.
00:00:55.740 A lot of siblings?
00:00:57.260 A lot of siblings, brothers, sisters, or no?
00:00:59.780 Brother one, two sisters, one passed away.
00:01:02.920 And where are you at in the...
00:01:04.620 Sorry to hear about one of your sisters, but...
00:01:06.520 I'm the last one, so...
00:01:07.820 You're the youngest.
00:01:08.660 Yes.
00:01:09.420 Which makes sense.
00:01:10.720 Have you ever seen these videos when it's four kids
00:01:13.040 and the youngest one is the most vibrant, craziest one out of all of them?
00:01:18.380 We have four kids.
00:01:19.600 And our youngest one is very different than the other three.
00:01:24.580 Do you think there's something there where you kind of watch your siblings or no?
00:01:27.800 No.
00:01:29.480 I didn't pay attention to them.
00:01:32.140 I knew them very well, but close, but…
00:01:37.040 I was close, very close to the family and friends, but I was aloof too, very aloof.
00:01:42.160 I just spent a lot of time in the jungles, forest areas around the city.
00:01:49.540 If I found ten rupees at that time, I bought two loaves of bread and a couple of eggs and
00:01:55.100 I disappeared into the jungle.
00:01:56.100 When I ran out of food after three days, four days, I came back.
00:02:00.000 So there would be searches all over, police complaints and everything.
00:02:04.920 But after some time, they realized wherever he goes, he comes back.
00:02:10.060 Even till today?
00:02:11.180 Even till today you find yourself going back home?
00:02:15.020 Now there are too many homes all over.
00:02:16.900 So wherever I go, I say it's my home.
00:02:19.260 So no problem.
00:02:21.980 That's interesting.
00:02:22.840 What would you say, you know, for someone like you,
00:02:24.880 I'm curious how you would answer this.
00:02:26.360 What do you think is your biggest accomplishment in life?
00:02:30.700 I have no accomplishments.
00:02:34.100 You said you don't have any accomplishments?
00:02:36.140 No, I don't think so.
00:02:36.820 I'm just doing my best.
00:02:37.960 That's about it.
00:02:39.360 I don't make a big deal about what's happened.
00:02:42.740 Because I know, in my perception,
00:02:48.320 I'm not even doing 2% of what I can do.
00:02:51.000 Because to create situations which are conducive, to create what you can do, is very difficult
00:02:58.960 in the world.
00:02:59.960 Why?
00:03:00.960 Because to convince everybody that this is possible, to make them see this is possible
00:03:06.080 to do this.
00:03:07.080 I told you, I thought I will get everybody blissed out in two and a half years time .
00:03:12.460 But everybody is so invested in their miseries, you can't get them out of it, though they
00:03:16.740 want to be blissful.
00:03:17.740 It's not that they don't want.
00:03:19.760 They want to be, but they can't make up their mind.
00:03:23.640 That's interesting.
00:03:26.580 What's been the most difficult thing you dealt with, even today?
00:03:30.820 Do you have challenges with anything in your life that you have a hard time with?
00:03:35.000 There are many, many challenges every day.
00:03:38.800 There's no day without challenges.
00:03:42.400 And I don't have a hard time with it.
00:03:45.800 I don't give myself a hard time.
00:03:48.660 And I have not given this freedom to anybody that they can give me a hard time.
00:03:54.820 So you don't give people the freedom to give you a hard time?
00:03:58.320 No.
00:03:59.320 Okay.
00:04:00.440 So how does one do that?
00:04:02.160 See, because this is possible because I am not a vested interest in any way.
00:04:09.280 Right now I get hundred people together and start doing this.
00:04:13.580 If fifty people in that just go the wrong way or don't do it, drop it halfway, I will
00:04:21.520 try to inspire them, get it done.
00:04:25.140 But whether that's done or not done is not of any consequence to me personally.
00:04:31.300 It's useful to people.
00:04:32.800 If it happens, it's good for the world.
00:04:34.580 Well, if you are the world, if you don't want to do it, that's about it.
00:04:40.760 So, wherever I see any possibility, I start something.
00:04:44.540 People are always scared, Sadhguru, if it doesn't work, what to do?
00:04:48.140 I said, if it doesn't work, what?
00:04:49.720 What's the problem if it doesn't work?
00:04:51.220 We made an attempt, it didn't work.
00:04:53.940 So, just about anything, whether it's agriculture, environment, health, education, you name it,
00:05:00.380 in every field I'm there, now many things have come to such a scale that we have become
00:05:05.460 global leaders in some of those things.
00:05:08.380 But many other things have not worked, but I don't think they are failures.
00:05:12.980 At least we made an attempt, maybe somebody else will carry it on tomorrow.
00:05:16.940 But the important thing as a human being, if you do not do what you cannot do, no problem.
00:05:23.680 But if you do not do what you can do, you're a disastrous life in my perception.
00:05:28.340 I don't want myself or anybody around me to be that kind of disasters, because this is
00:05:33.460 the problem with most human beings.
00:05:35.360 they're not even doing what they can do, because they have fear of failure.
00:05:42.160 What is failure in this life? You'll die one day, hello?
00:05:46.080 Everything that you think must happen, you attempt. It may happen, it may not happen.
00:05:51.080 Because for anything to happen, the situations have to be conducive, world has to receive you.
00:05:57.000 World may reject some things that you say.
00:06:00.680 Well, big people, well, Gautam Buddha was poisoned, Manzoor was poisoned, Jesus was
00:06:07.640 nailed.
00:06:08.640 Well, you can say they're failure.
00:06:11.480 They're not failure, they did what they could do.
00:06:14.840 People were who they were, around them.
00:06:18.120 Do you read a lot?
00:06:20.320 Are you a big reader or no?
00:06:22.020 One time, way back.
00:06:24.600 But I don't get much time to read anymore.
00:06:26.520 One time way back.
00:06:27.680 See, what I did was after I finished my high school, I took a year's break because I decided
00:06:34.920 I'll educate myself.
00:06:36.300 I don't want to go through the education because it was quite silly for me to go sit in a classroom 0.99
00:06:41.780 and they're talking some stupid stuff for one hour, which is in five minutes you could 0.99
00:06:46.880 know this. 0.99
00:06:48.680 So I took a break and this was a time when my family who… in India, education is valued
00:06:56.360 as the most sacred thing, you know, in that generation.
00:06:59.640 In a big way.
00:07:00.800 Huge way.
00:07:01.520 In a big way.
00:07:02.080 I mean, you know, you guys got IIT, you guys got, the whole culture is about education.
00:07:06.940 Especially if your father is a physician, you have to become a physician, it's compulsory.
00:07:11.700 Did any of the kids become any of the siblings?
00:07:13.280 No.
00:07:14.180 All three failed, they didn't go.
00:07:16.300 So everything came on me.
00:07:18.540 Wow.
00:07:19.280 So my father is like academically very top guy in his time.
00:07:25.220 He studied with a lot of hardship and he has preserved his textbooks, medical textbooks,
00:07:31.440 his notes, handwritten notes, piles and piles of notes.
00:07:36.180 He someday wants his children to take up all this stuff.
00:07:39.340 So, he's telling me all this.
00:07:41.720 I said, see, see, I'm not going to be a doctor, that's for sure, don't pin this on me.
00:07:47.960 I said, I'll educate myself, I don't want to go to college anymore.
00:07:51.980 I'll finish my high school and then I decided I'll go spend time in the library.
00:07:58.120 Masjid University had a fantastic library, it still has I think.
00:08:02.080 So morning nine o'clock it opens, closes at eight in the evening.
00:08:05.220 At that time , I was so physically active, you know, I was like all over the place
00:08:12.000 doing all kinds of things, in the jungles, climbing mountains, all kinds of stuff.
00:08:17.680 You won't believe what all I did .
00:08:19.940 This is what age?
00:08:21.940 From the age of eleven, twelve onwards.
00:08:25.100 So now I'm eighteen and I've just cleared my high school and I don't want to go to the
00:08:31.480 university, which is unbelievable in my family that you don't want to educate yourself is
00:08:36.380 like a crime.
00:08:38.740 It's not just a simple sabbatical as it is seen today.
00:08:43.280 At that time it was, if you don't go to the university, your life is finished.
00:08:48.400 That's the understanding.
00:08:50.040 So I went and sat in the Mysore library, Mysore University library, at 9am when it opens,
00:08:56.640 I'm there.
00:08:57.640 I eat a big breakfast at home and go because I'm such a big eater at that time.
00:09:03.240 I would eat almost ten to twelve times of what I'm eating today.
00:09:06.560 Stop it.
00:09:07.560 Really.
00:09:08.560 I never put on weight because my metabolism was like that when my activity was like that.
00:09:14.660 So I'm not somebody who can bear hunger, I have to eat.
00:09:18.600 But that one year, I ate only one breakfast and came back in the night and ate dinner.
00:09:23.600 It was huge suffering physically.
00:09:26.120 But I sat there and read just anything and anything.
00:09:29.620 From Popular Mechanics to Homer, to National Geographic to this and that, literature, philosophy,
00:09:37.180 particularly geography caught my attention.
00:09:39.060 I read a lot about the world geography.
00:09:41.940 That one year, I gobbled up lots of books.
00:09:45.360 Lots.
00:09:46.360 From…
00:09:47.360 How long ago was that?
00:09:48.360 How long ago was that?
00:09:49.560 I was 18.
00:09:50.780 So you have not read anything since then?
00:09:53.120 Not much.
00:09:53.900 I read some literature because I found a taste for literature.
00:09:57.400 But in the last 20, 25 years, I hardly can even read a newspaper.
00:10:02.360 When I'm in India, I get to read newspaper.
00:10:05.080 Here, even getting a newspaper is tough.
00:10:07.320 I can't read on those iPads and all.
00:10:08.980 I don't feel like it's a real thing to read.
00:10:12.580 Do you think reading is a waste of time?
00:10:15.200 You think there's benefit in reading?
00:10:16.380 How do you view reading?
00:10:17.140 See, I'm not reading for, let's say, I never read anything spiritual, ever.
00:10:24.760 Not the Bible, not the Buddhism, none of…
00:10:27.680 None of it. 0.99
00:10:28.680 Nothing.
00:10:29.680 I read literature.
00:10:30.680 I love literature.
00:10:31.680 I read a lot of poetry.
00:10:32.680 I wrote a lot of poetry, and I also read a lot about world geography.
00:10:41.580 Why geography?
00:10:42.580 Why interest in geography?
00:10:43.580 Land always took me… you know, I cycled across South India just to see the land.
00:10:49.280 Then I crisscrossed India on my motorcycle many times over at that time.
00:10:54.720 So because for me, the land… not going anywhere in particular, simply end to end till I hit
00:11:00.100 the border, I go and again turn back and ride another direction.
00:11:04.600 Like that I rode.
00:11:06.640 Because for me, drinking up the land, even today, I just do those kind of rides.
00:11:11.980 I rode across Canada.
00:11:13.540 I rode to Tibet last year.
00:11:15.560 I know you're big on motorcycles.
00:11:16.920 You definitely like to do that.
00:11:19.440 It's not about the motorcycle, it's about the land.
00:11:22.480 It's not about the motorcycle, it's about the land.
00:11:24.060 The very many features of the land,
00:11:26.880 the way the world is.
00:11:27.840 This is the planet we live on, all right?
00:11:29.980 If you're not interested in that, then what?