Acharya Prashant addresses the concept of toxic positivity. He begins by offering a method to overcome hatred: if you feel intense hatred for someone, set aside your hatred and ego for a while and talk to that person for an hour. You will find it impossible to hate them anymore. This is why people who wish to maintain their hatred often cut off all communication and contact. By not facing the other person, it becomes easier to harbor baseless imaginations about them. If they were to come face-to-face, the hatred would likely dissipate. The simple way to eliminate hatred is to talk. If you talk for an hour, you might end up crying, and so will the other person. The speaker then responds to a question about toxic positivity, where motivational speakers advise repeating affirmations like "I choose to be happy" or "I deserve to be happy" instead of understanding or accepting negative emotions like fear and anger. Acharya Prashant dismisses these affirmations, stating they have no reality in them. He describes this practice as a form of self-hypnosis, an attempt to keep oneself in an intoxicated state by telling oneself, "I am happy," without wanting to know the reality of one's situation. He questions how long one can remain numb to reality in this way. If you are living a wrong life, repeatedly engaging in positive thinking will not change anything. You have created bad situations through your own foolishness and ego, and then you tell yourself to be positive, which essentially means to be hopeful. However, if you don't even know what went wrong, you cannot make it better. He points out that it is no coincidence that the cult of positivity has spread so much in the last 50 years, a period during which the planet has also been severely destroyed. He asserts that we have never been so positive, and the Earth has never been so ruined. He explains that Vedanta, in contrast, teaches negativity—the process of negation. In our modern language, "negativity" has become a derogatory term. When you want to criticize someone, you say they have "negative vibes." He argues that we need negative people, a mind that negates and cuts through falsehoods. The speaker connects the rise of positivity to the market and capitalist consumerism. When you are positive, you consume and spend. To sell their products, companies must manipulate people's minds to make them desire things they don't need. This is achieved by glamorizing a certain personality type—the show-off, the hedonist—making them the ideal that everyone wants to emulate, thus driving consumption. These concepts of positivity, living in the moment, and not being judgmental are all business tactics originating from America, designed to loot people.