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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

The Big Mistake: Why Hard Working People Fail | Sadhguru

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Sadhguru Official

Religion, Society & Culture, Science, How To, Life Sciences, Hinduism, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Education

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Sadhguru demolishes the popular idea of hard work leading to success, and explains how one can truly be successful. Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org  Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app  Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org  Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive  Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In life, if you have goals, they have a price tag that includes pain, hard work, resilience.

0:07.0

This is a sure way to mess yourself up.

0:12.0

You complain about everything in life because you're doing everything hard.

0:15.0

Once your intelligence is turned against you, no power in the universe can save you. That's all.

0:21.0

I think pain leads to prosperity and in life, if you have goals, they have a price tag that includes pain, hard work, resilience.

0:37.0

And when this is the case, then why do a lot of people shy away from stress?

0:43.0

Because I, on an individual level, up until I am alive, I want to achieve goals and it will come with a lot of stress and pain.

0:53.0

And then I can rest when I'm below because I'll spend more time in the grave than I will outside the grave.

1:01.0

Do you think this is the right mentality or what is your comments on this approach?

1:04.0

This is a sure way to mess yourself up.

1:09.0

This is a, this is a serious mistake, a whole generation of people have done that if you study, how should you study hard?

1:18.0

You must study hard.

1:21.0

If you work, how should you work? You must work hard. Why didn't they tell you you must study joyfully?

1:27.0

Why didn't they tell you you must work lovingly? No, you must do everything hard and then you complain.

1:34.0

You complain about everything in life because you're doing everything hard.

1:38.0

There is substantial medical and scientific evidence to show you only when you're in pleasant states of experience,

1:46.0

does your body and your brain work at their best?

1:50.0

Is that important for you to perform any activity in life well that your body and your brains are working well?

1:58.0

Hello? Is it important?

2:01.0

Tell me if you're stressed and anxious, does your body and brains work at their best?

2:09.0

Our body can get immune to it and that is how you know, like in the gym when I stress my muscle, it grows when it breaks.

2:15.0

So like that, we can also get ourselves immune.

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