IIT Kharagpur: The way of assured success

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner (Q): How to get success in whatever I do?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Success does not lie in doing any random thing. That is the first, the most important, and probably the last thing. The game is not at all about picking up some arbitrary thing to do and then investing yourself fully in it, plunging into it, spending a lot of energy, and trying to be successful. No, that is not the point.

Do you know why you are doing a certain thing? Are you sure what is worthy enough to be done? That is the moot question.

Choose the right thing to do, and in that lies success. In that lies immediate success. Immediate success implies that you have been successful right in the moment of the choice itself; you don’t have to wait for the outcome. In fact, if you have to wait for the outcome to determine whether you have been successful or not, then you are already unsuccessful.

Choose the right option. Make the right decision. Fight the right battle. And now it doesn’t matter whether you win or not because you are already victorious.

Victory lies in choosing the right road to walk. It does not quite lie in reaching the destination earlier than others. In fact, it is a…