If your self-image comes from the world,then the world terrifies you||Acharya Prashant,with students
Listener: How to get rid of fear of losing my image in front of others?
Acharya Prashant: Sit, what’s your name?
L: Acharya Ji, Prateek.
AP: Prateek is saying to get rid of fear and then he specifies the fear of losing my image in front of others. Prateek if it is really your image how can you lose it? If it is really yours is it possible to lose it? But no, we all know that we are so conscious about our images and we feel so vulnerable about it.
There is always the threat of our self-image being lost destroy and distorted.
Why does that happen? That happens because our image is not ours at all. It’s a second-hand image. We do not look at ourselves directly. We look at ourselves through the eyes of others. It is another matter that others do not have their own eyes but as far as we are concerned, we look at ourselves through the eyes of others.
We think that this is my image but it is constantly supplied to us by somebody else. I was recently conducting an interview for hiring MBA students so, one of the candidates, he comes and I asked him that what are your quality is? What do you call as your strengths?
