Acharya Prashant addresses the struggle of overcoming bad habits, explaining that what people often call the 'inner voice' or conscience is merely a collection of superficial moral conditioning acquired from family and society over the last twenty years. In contrast, the deep-seated tendencies of greed, lust, fear, and anger are millions of years old, rooted in human nature. Because these primal instincts are far older and stronger than recent moral education, morality alone fails to conquer them. He asserts that humans remain animals internally, merely covered by a thin veil of civilization, and that moral stories cannot tame the 'inner gorilla' or the 'mad elephant' of desire.