Dream Job || Acharya Prashant

In the civil services, the maximum selections are from the most underdeveloped states and from the states where there is relatively higher level of development. You hardly have people competing and getting selected. Very few Gujarati for example. But the civil services list would be full of people from Bihar, from some areas of Andhra Pradesh, from Eastern UP, from Odisa. But you would insist that these are my goals. When you are four years old, how do you decide that becoming an air hostess is my goal? How do you decide?

You probably watch a movie or you probably have flown to some place and you have looked at the dress of the air hostess and found the whole thing to be very attractive or you’ve heard from somewhere and that is the influence that is deciding for itself. Where are you in all that? Your goals are not really your goals. Your goals come from the influences upon you and you don’t have to decide them. They get decided automatically. They just get decided. And it’s a very mechanical thing. To chase a goal is to become a part to that mechanical process.

And anything that is mechanical is pre-programmed and dead.