“The Fear Of FAILURE” - Sadhguru UNCOVERS The Mind Games KILLING Your Potential
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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.
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I have not been messed by the world in which I live.
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I'm just the way the Creator intended life to be.
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Sorry to hear about one of your sisters, but...
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Have you ever seen these videos when it's four kids
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and the youngest one is the most vibrant, craziest one out of all of them?
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And our youngest one is very different than the other three.
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Do you think there's something there where you kind of watch your siblings or no?
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I was close, very close to the family and friends, but I was aloof too, very aloof.
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I just spent a lot of time in the jungles, forest areas around the city.
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If I found ten rupees at that time, I bought two loaves of bread and a couple of eggs and
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When I ran out of food after three days, four days, I came back.
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So there would be searches all over, police complaints and everything.
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But after some time, they realized wherever he goes, he comes back.
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Even till today you find yourself going back home?
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What would you say, you know, for someone like you,
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What do you think is your biggest accomplishment in life?
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Because to create situations which are conducive, to create what you can do, is very difficult
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Because to convince everybody that this is possible, to make them see this is possible
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I told you, I thought I will get everybody blissed out in two and a half years time .
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But everybody is so invested in their miseries, you can't get them out of it, though they
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They want to be, but they can't make up their mind.
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What's been the most difficult thing you dealt with, even today?
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Do you have challenges with anything in your life that you have a hard time with?
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And I have not given this freedom to anybody that they can give me a hard time.
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So you don't give people the freedom to give you a hard time?
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See, because this is possible because I am not a vested interest in any way.
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Right now I get hundred people together and start doing this.
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If fifty people in that just go the wrong way or don't do it, drop it halfway, I will
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But whether that's done or not done is not of any consequence to me personally.
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Well, if you are the world, if you don't want to do it, that's about it.
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So, wherever I see any possibility, I start something.
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People are always scared, Sadhguru, if it doesn't work, what to do?
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So, just about anything, whether it's agriculture, environment, health, education, you name it,
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in every field I'm there, now many things have come to such a scale that we have become
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But many other things have not worked, but I don't think they are failures.
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At least we made an attempt, maybe somebody else will carry it on tomorrow.
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But the important thing as a human being, if you do not do what you cannot do, no problem.
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But if you do not do what you can do, you're a disastrous life in my perception.
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I don't want myself or anybody around me to be that kind of disasters, because this is
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they're not even doing what they can do, because they have fear of failure.
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What is failure in this life? You'll die one day, hello?
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Everything that you think must happen, you attempt. It may happen, it may not happen.
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Because for anything to happen, the situations have to be conducive, world has to receive you.
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Well, big people, well, Gautam Buddha was poisoned, Manzoor was poisoned, Jesus was
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They're not failure, they did what they could do.
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See, what I did was after I finished my high school, I took a year's break because I decided
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I don't want to go through the education because it was quite silly for me to go sit in a classroom
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and they're talking some stupid stuff for one hour, which is in five minutes you could
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So I took a break and this was a time when my family who… in India, education is valued
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as the most sacred thing, you know, in that generation.
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I mean, you know, you guys got IIT, you guys got, the whole culture is about education.
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Especially if your father is a physician, you have to become a physician, it's compulsory.
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Did any of the kids become any of the siblings?
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So my father is like academically very top guy in his time.
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He studied with a lot of hardship and he has preserved his textbooks, medical textbooks,
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his notes, handwritten notes, piles and piles of notes.
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He someday wants his children to take up all this stuff.
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I said, see, see, I'm not going to be a doctor, that's for sure, don't pin this on me.
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I said, I'll educate myself, I don't want to go to college anymore.
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I'll finish my high school and then I decided I'll go spend time in the library.
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Masjid University had a fantastic library, it still has I think.
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So morning nine o'clock it opens, closes at eight in the evening.
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At that time , I was so physically active, you know, I was like all over the place
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doing all kinds of things, in the jungles, climbing mountains, all kinds of stuff.
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So now I'm eighteen and I've just cleared my high school and I don't want to go to the
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university, which is unbelievable in my family that you don't want to educate yourself is
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It's not just a simple sabbatical as it is seen today.
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At that time it was, if you don't go to the university, your life is finished.
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So I went and sat in the Mysore library, Mysore University library, at 9am when it opens,
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I eat a big breakfast at home and go because I'm such a big eater at that time.
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I would eat almost ten to twelve times of what I'm eating today.
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I never put on weight because my metabolism was like that when my activity was like that.
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So I'm not somebody who can bear hunger, I have to eat.
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But that one year, I ate only one breakfast and came back in the night and ate dinner.
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But I sat there and read just anything and anything.
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From Popular Mechanics to Homer, to National Geographic to this and that, literature, philosophy,
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I read some literature because I found a taste for literature.
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But in the last 20, 25 years, I hardly can even read a newspaper.
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See, I'm not reading for, let's say, I never read anything spiritual, ever.
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I wrote a lot of poetry, and I also read a lot about world geography.
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Land always took me… you know, I cycled across South India just to see the land.
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Then I crisscrossed India on my motorcycle many times over at that time.
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So because for me, the land… not going anywhere in particular, simply end to end till I hit
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the border, I go and again turn back and ride another direction.
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Because for me, drinking up the land, even today, I just do those kind of rides.
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It's not about the motorcycle, it's about the land.
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It's not about the motorcycle, it's about the land.