There was a time when I was clueless, but at that time, I was confident about what I was doing. I was living in a small room somewhere in Mumbai at that time. Yes, it was a room—not a house, not an apartment, but just a room with a toilet and a kitchen built inside a small space.
It was a small, caged room, and it was the smallest place I had ever lived in my life, but when I look back at it, it was the best time of my life. When I look back and think about those times, I feel I want to return to being ignorant.
Being ignorant is the most beautiful thing in the world. All the knowledge in the world makes you unable to do anything in life.
That is why most people in the world who are college professors and PhDs are the ones who keep talking about one thing or another but never do anything. They also keep telling people what they should do and what they should not do. Knowledge is the source of all the problems in the world.
The flow of knowledge should be natural, like from genes to genes, and should not be acquired by reading just books.
One should read books because they increase imagination, but one should run away from every other kind of knowledge because knowledge is the thing that will get you nowhere. If you want to do something, please go ahead and do it.
Don’t wait for it. But then comes the problem: you don’t know what you want to do, and even if you know what you want to do, you don’t know how to go ahead and do it. That is where delusion comes in.
A delusion might be a problem for some people, where they live in their own world and expect the world to believe in the same world they are living in inside their own head. Delusion is not delusion when you think about it and don’t discuss it with anyone else in the world.
There is no such thing as delusion, actually. It is just a weird thought that you discuss with somebody, and they have never experienced such a thought, so they think that what you are thinking is something that cannot happen. Since two people live lives differently, it is obvious that not everybody is going to agree with you on all fronts.
There will be times when people will disagree with you. Remove those times from your life. The secret to becoming a confident person is never to discuss anything with anyone and to keep doing your work.
The moment you discuss your work with someone, everything goes awry because nothing will ever come out of talking to someone about what you want to do.
There won’t be a single instance when someone will support you, and even if they do, deep down, you will know that they don’t mean it.
There is no fault in anyone here. Different people have different thoughts. There are no two people who have exactly the same thoughts. That is the beauty of this world.
If you really want to have confidence, then do not discuss anything with anyone.