About this episode

The episode discusses the Four Truths, focusing on the passage of time and the importance of doing what needs to be done for success, regardless of personal preference.

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil anbiya'i ibn mursaleen, Muhammadin Rasulullah ﷺ wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasleemun kathirun kathirun. And now, my brothers and sisters, we are talking about what I call the Four Truths. The first one, as I mentioned two days or three days ago, is that time passes. Time passes; we have no control over that. What we do have control over is what we will do with the time that we have. The second thing, which I mentioned yesterday, was that liking something doesn't matter. For success in life, to be successful, you don't have to like what you are doing. You don't have to like whatever you are focused on. If you like it, that's good. If you don't like it, but it needs to be done, it has to be done. And if you don't do it, then you suffer. Now, almost as a rule, everything that is beneficial—at least in the beginning—is not liked because it is painful. When we talk about emotional maturity, EQ compared to IQ (emotional quotient), we talk about the ability to delay gratification. Gratification is some pleasure; to delay the pleasure. They did this experiment with…

Topics covered

• time management
• emotional maturity
• delayed gratification
• success
• personal development

Keywords

• Four Truths
• time passes
• emotional quotient
• success in life
• delaying gratification

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