Acharya Prashant explains that the desire to change oneself is often a waste of time because the entity deciding to change is the same one that is considered problematic. He uses the analogy of a malfunctioning computer to illustrate that one cannot rely on a broken system to fix itself. He asserts that there is no distinction between the 'I' and the problem; the ego creates this separation to believe it is healthy enough to cure its own sickness. In reality, the 'I' does not witness problems but experiences them as suffering. If one were truly witnessing, situations would not be labeled as problems but simply as things happening.