Beyond Intellectual Solutions || Acharya Prashant

Sir, in your book Truth Without Apology in the chapter you’re not lazy you’re loveless you have mentioned a fact that the courageous mind does not solve the problem it solves itself so can you just elaborate how can a courageous mind solve the problems of our nation the problems that we are facing >> why why did this one attract you >> because this one is like really inspirational for me >> I’m glad you picked this one up see we all here our intellectual minds And intellectual minds are good at problem solving.

I’m in fact grateful you picked this one up in front of this audience. By default, if you are here in this hall, you will be good at problem solving. That’s the function of intellect. It can identify an external problem. It knows a goal towards which that problem will be solved. Think of a problem. What is a problem? It’s a situation. And what do you call a solution? That too is just a situation.

But they are connected by desire. If you can change this situation to that situation as per your desire then you declare that the problem has been brought to a solution but you will not be good at solving yourself that’s where something else is needed something beyond intellect I’m calling that courage in this context that can be called by other names as…