A situation is a challenge only if you feel something about you is at stake||Acharya Prashant(2015)

Questioner: What is the right way to look at a challenge?

Shri Prashant: When do you call something a ‘challenge’?

Listener 1: When there is a hurdle in it.

SP: When do you call something a ‘hurdle’?

Listener 1: If I want to earn my living, at what level should I stop being greedy about it?

SP: Let us a take a very live example. One of our friends, a few minutes back, initiated a discussion about dreams. He asked a question related to dreams. While answering, how do I know where to pause, or stop, or when to initiate a new topic? It just happens.

Also you talked about challenge and hurdle. You lobbed a question at me. When would the question become a challenge for me? When would I say, “Oh my God. A hurdle”? When? I would say that if I care for my image in front of you or if I would set an ideal for myself that the moment a question comes to me, I have to give a wonderful, perfect, ideal reply. Then I would say, “I have never heard this question before. This is new, this is a problem, this is a challenge.”