Valuetainment - April 16, 2026


“Thinking Is A WASTE Of Time” - Sadhguru Explains How Your Mind Is Holding You Back


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7 minutes

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1,135

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116

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In this episode, Gaurav Chopra talks about the difference between Intelligence and Intuition, and why we spend so much time thinking about what we should be doing with our lives. He also talks about AI and why some people are worried about it.

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00:00:00.000 From your experience, having dealt with as many people as you have,
00:00:02.800 what do we waste most of our lives thinking about that we shouldn't be?
00:00:11.580 Thinking itself is a waste of time.
00:00:16.220 Tell me more.
00:00:17.800 See, a human being has intelligence and intellect.
00:00:26.940 Intelligent and intellect?
00:00:28.020 Yes. There is intelligence. There is intellect.
00:00:32.940 What did you have for lunch or breakfast today?
00:00:37.240 Alper, my Turkish chef, made me some Turkish food.
00:00:40.800 It was good salad, good soup, and whatever the meat was, it was tender.
00:00:45.800 It was good.
00:00:47.340 Somebody died for you.
00:00:48.740 That's all I can tell you.
00:00:51.040 So whatever you eat, whatever that is, plant, animal, this, that,
00:00:58.020 Are you using your intellect and digesting it?
00:01:01.500 Or there's a deeper intelligence which is doing all this and making this into human
00:01:04.840 body?
00:01:05.840 I'm now using intellect.
00:01:09.700 There's a deeper intelligence which is doing that.
00:01:12.520 Sure.
00:01:13.520 Yeah, for sure.
00:01:14.520 So there is intelligence and there is intellect.
00:01:17.480 Intellect works only with the limited data that you have gathered, yes or no?
00:01:23.980 Can you think of something that you've never encountered?
00:01:27.460 Can I think of something I've never encountered?
00:01:29.700 Never encountered, never heard of.
00:01:31.260 You were not conscious of it.
00:01:32.800 Can you think about that?
00:01:34.680 Can I think of something?
00:01:35.820 Can I imagine a life I've never encountered?
00:01:38.660 Yes.
00:01:38.940 Can I think of something I've never encountered?
00:01:40.860 No.
00:01:41.040 No, you cannot imagine.
00:01:42.320 You will imagine something which is an exaggeration of what you already know.
00:01:49.320 Okay.
00:01:50.480 You cannot think of something for which there's no data inside.
00:01:55.260 Well, maybe I got to find the mushrooms you took 40 years ago.
00:01:58.280 I didn't take the mushrooms.
00:01:59.880 I know, you were telling me you thought you were on mushrooms.
00:02:03.120 Others thought I was on mushrooms.
00:02:05.740 Your intellect works only on data.
00:02:09.520 Your intelligence is not of that sort.
00:02:12.680 Your intelligence is life itself.
00:02:15.420 Life is an intelligent process.
00:02:17.880 So instead of being that intelligence,
00:02:19.860 you're given too much value to this intellect.
00:02:22.680 This entire thing has happened because, I don't know, people may think it's controversial.
00:02:31.580 But this human thought has become very important only because of European influence on the
00:02:38.600 world.
00:02:39.600 Otherwise, in India, we don't attach any importance to what you think. 0.98
00:02:44.160 You can think whatever you want because we know you can't think anything beyond your
00:02:47.620 data.
00:02:49.620 Can your computer operate beyond its data?
00:02:53.900 No.
00:02:54.900 Then why are people so insecure about AI?
00:02:58.900 Because they know it'll handle data better than them.
00:03:02.180 It's a fear.
00:03:04.820 Some people are fearing that.
00:03:05.820 Yes, because it'll handle data better than them.
00:03:08.380 Sure.
00:03:09.380 See, we have created a world where if you read three books, you can become a schoolteacher
00:03:13.360 and screw up the next generation of people.
00:03:15.620 You read ten books, you become a professor and bore the hell out of people .
00:03:20.740 You read just one book and you become an agent of God.
00:03:24.900 I read nothing and people accuse me that I'm a mystic.
00:03:28.060 This is strange world.
00:03:30.060 So with little data, people have been running businesses for a long time.
00:03:35.940 Now a simple machine, your phone can carry a million times more data than your brains.
00:03:43.240 so people are feeling insecure.
00:03:45.700 Okay, when I sell my business,
00:03:48.180 I want the best tax and investment advice.
00:03:50.360 I want to help my kids,
00:03:51.520 and I want to give back to the community.
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00:04:41.560 Do you think there's any benefit to math?
00:04:51.000 To mathematics?
00:04:52.020 Mathematics.
00:04:53.020 Well, that's the only thing which human beings have kind of come to,
00:04:59.800 which can connect with the physical realities of the existence
00:05:02.460 if you take it to a certain level.
00:05:05.400 Is there a benefit to it?
00:05:06.720 Because you're saying don't think.
00:05:07.860 So if you're saying you're in school, you're not listening to the teacher,
00:05:10.480 do we need math?
00:05:12.200 Do we not need math?
00:05:13.980 Mathematics is not because of your thinking,
00:05:16.000 because of observation.
00:05:19.520 This ten fingers are there
00:05:21.180 because you're thinking you have ten
00:05:22.540 or because it is there?
00:05:24.000 It is there.
00:05:24.660 It is there.
00:05:25.520 Right.
00:05:25.980 So we just learn to count it in a certain way.
00:05:28.420 Right.
00:05:29.420 But it is already there, isn't it?
00:05:32.260 Sure.
00:05:33.040 Yes.
00:05:33.720 So we didn't invent it.
00:05:35.520 It is there, we observed it.
00:05:39.200 Right.
00:05:39.640 But you are taught mathematics, as if you're saying at 25, you had a half a dozen businesses.
00:05:44.720 You had to be good in numbers, no?
00:05:47.580 Of course.
00:05:49.320 Because I had 10 fingers too.
00:05:50.920 But I hope you made more than $10.
00:05:53.040 A lot more.
00:05:54.020 Okay, so then you don't have a million fingers.
00:05:56.520 I know you've done well.
00:05:58.020 It's just, see, we're Indians.
00:06:00.780 We invented the zero.
00:06:02.380 We know how to add zero to 10.
00:06:05.460 Sure.
00:06:06.040 How many zeros is the question?
00:06:07.640 That's all, right?
00:06:08.340 Right.
00:06:08.580 Right. But when you say the idea of not needing to learn...
00:06:15.540 No, no. No, I'm not saying there's no need to learn.
00:06:18.520 All I'm saying is there is no distinction between intelligence and intellect.
00:06:25.260 Intellect, let's say intellect is in one part of your head and it's like your phone.
00:06:31.860 There are a lot of people who are addicted to the phone.
00:06:33.980 They can't keep it down. They're going into rehabilitation.
00:06:36.520 Sure.
00:06:37.360 So this is the same condition.
00:06:39.080 You don't know how to keep your intellect aside
00:06:41.320 and just employ the other aspects of your life.
00:06:44.720 All the time it's on.
00:06:46.600 From what?
00:06:47.440 From the limited data that you have.
00:06:49.380 Same things it's repeating in permutations and combinations.
00:06:53.060 It cannot come up with anything new.
00:06:55.340 But your intelligence is not like that.
00:06:57.600 If you give it necessary focus,
00:06:59.600 it will penetrate into anything and open doors in the universe.
00:07:03.920 You said something to your daughter.
00:07:05.300 You said, I won't teach anyone unsolicited.
00:07:11.480 Why is that?
00:07:12.540 Why is that a...
00:07:13.820 Because it won't work.
00:07:16.620 Because it's like the whole concept of when the student is ready.
00:07:19.560 Unless one is receptive.
00:07:20.960 Sure.
00:07:21.500 What is the point pouring things on them?
00:07:24.760 You go and pour water on a rock, will a tree grow out of it?
00:07:28.440 No.
00:07:28.840 No, you have to wait for it to melt down to become soil.
00:07:32.400 When do you know that the student's ready?
00:07:34.000 Huh?
00:07:34.500 When do you know the students ready?
00:07:36.040 I can see the eagerness in their face .
00:07:38.040 Purely based on the eagerness.
00:07:39.040 The people ask me, Sadhguru, how long will you live?
00:07:42.100 I said, the day I see any boredom in your faces, I'll be gone.
00:07:46.380 If I don't see thirst in your faces, I'll be gone.