
Short excerpt from the article:
"Be in love with your work and give it just everything that you have. The quality of the relationship must be so high that you are left choiceless in attending to it. Once you have given it all that you have, you will be left with very little time, space, or energy to bother about the result. “I gave everything that I had; now it is difficult to differentiate between defeat and victory.” Live so intensely that, in the end, you are left with no energy to be concerned with the result."
In this discourse, Acharya Prashant reframes the concept of success, moving it from external outcomes to internal intensity.
He argues that the anxiety of results (victory or defeat) only exists when one has held something back. By "fighting hard" and pouring 100% of one's energy into the action, the one is so consumed by the process that it loses the capacity to be affected by the eventual result, achieving a state of "victorious" detachment.
Is our obsession with "winning" actually a confession that we aren't putting enough heart into the "doing"?
by Big_Confusion6957
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“Give your work so much energy you don’t have any left to care whether you profit from it” sounds like the kind of advice an abusive boss gives their employees.
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