Acharya Prashant addresses a question from a 33-year-old software engineer who, after losing his job three years ago, has been living with a deep-seated fear. The questioner asks how to maintain peace of mind and contentment in a competitive world and what the cure for fear is. Acharya Prashant begins by acknowledging that if fear exists, it is a reality that one is experiencing. Simply closing one's eyes to it, denying it, or condemning it will not be beneficial. Instead, he advises confronting the fear, having a conversation with it, and understanding what it is trying to convey. He points out that the incident of losing the job happened three years ago, and the questioner found a new job within three months, which indicates that the event did not cause any irreparable harm. The persistence of fear suggests it is not solely linked to that past event. He then categorizes fear into three types. The first is imaginary or baseless fear, which constitutes 90-95% of our fears. These arise from an idle mind and can be dispelled by closely examining them and assessing their probability. A life with meaningful work leaves no room for such fears. The second type is factual fear, which is based on real possibilities and requires action or labor to address. For instance, the fear of being laid off due to poor performance is factual, and the solution is to improve one's work. The third and most profound type is existential fear, which is the insecurity of the ego itself. This fear is not about losing something 'mine' but questions the very existence and reality of the 'I'. The cure for this third, spiritual fear is spirituality itself. It is the search for the 'I' that cannot be harmed or taken away, the 'I' that remains even when everything else is lost. Spirituality is not about finding new supports when old ones fail; it is a ruthless method of letting go of what is untrue. One must first discard the false supports. The speaker emphasizes that a person only truly begins to live when they are free from fear. Fear is not our nature; fearlessness is. Our very being is fear. To address the deepest fear, one must turn to the spiritual scriptures like the Upanishads and Vedanta, which are the result of deep research into this very subject.