“Thinking Is A WASTE Of Time” - Sadhguru Explains How Your Mind Is Holding You Back
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Sadhguru tells PBD that overthinking is the biggest waste of human life, arguing that intellect is limited to past data while true intelligence goes far beyond it. He explains why people are trapped in mental loops, fear AI, and mistake constant thinking for real awareness.
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| 0:00.0 | From your experience, having dealt with as many people as you have, what do we waste most of our lives thinking about that we shouldn't be? |
| 0:10.0 | Thinking itself is waste of time. |
| 0:16.0 | Tell me more. |
| 0:18.0 | See, a human being has intelligence and intellect. |
| 0:26.7 | Intelligent and intellect. |
| 0:28.4 | Yes. |
| 0:29.1 | Okay. |
| 0:29.4 | There is intelligence. |
| 0:30.7 | There is intellect. |
| 0:32.9 | What did you have for lunch or breakfast today? |
| 0:37.1 | Alper, my Turkish chef, made me some Turkish food. |
| 0:40.7 | It was good salad, good soup. |
| 0:43.3 | And whatever the meat was, it was tender. |
| 0:45.7 | It was good. |
| 0:47.4 | Somebody died for you, all right. |
| 0:48.7 | That's all I can tell you. |
| 0:51.3 | So, whatever you eat, whatever that is, plant, animal, this, that. |
| 0:58.0 | Are you using your intellect and digesting it? |
| 1:01.0 | Or there's a deeper intelligence which is doing all this and making this into human body? |
| 1:06.0 | I'm now using intellect. |
| 1:10.0 | There's a deeper intelligence which which is good at that. |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah, for sure. |
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