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With youth: Is dissatisfaction necessary for progress?
The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
Acharya Prashant (AP): Dissatisfied how do you feel? Tell me.
Listener (L): Sir, I feel afraid, I feel insecure, and a lot of questions.
AP: Right, you feel afraid, you feel insecure and a lot of questions — can we call them doubts? You feel doubtful.
Look at the flow that is coming to us. Progress requires that you must be dissatisfied. Dissatisfaction means that you are afraid, doubtful, and insecure. Now if you are doubtful, afraid, and insecure, what kinds of action will you take? Will you take healthy actions? Will those actions be good for you? When you are afraid, doubtful, and insecure can you really take actions that are good for you? A fearful mind, an insecure mind, can it really take actions that are good for you? Look clearly at it. You are afraid, you are shivering and you do not know; you are highly confused. Now can you take a good decision at this moment? Can you?
(The listener smiles)
AP: Now, you are smiling, now you know that you can’t, right?
L: Yes sir.
AP: So that means when you are thinking of progress you must be dissatisfied and when you are dissatisfied you must be…
