Acharya Prashant addresses the idea that attaining a higher pleasure requires going through a higher suffering. He explains that there is a way out. In your current level of existence, which you might call a lower level, you have a certain capacity and appetite to take suffering. It is not a higher suffering that is required, but a suffering at your current level. If you exercise even that level of suffering, it will bring you a disproportionately higher pleasure. Once you taste that pleasure, you realize that a formula has opened up, and your willingness to take more discipline upon yourself increases because you have now tasted the results. The speaker emphasizes that at any particular level, doing the maximum you can is sufficient. You are not demanded to do something beyond yourself; just do the maximum that is within your capacity. The challenge is to do the maximum that is possible within your capacity. Once you do this, you get results. When you taste these results, your willingness to impose more discipline increases, and you know a formula has opened up. The more you exert yourself, the better the results will be, and you become unstoppable. However, there is an initial period where you are working, but there will be no results. This is when faith and patience are required. Once the results start arriving, they will keep spurring you on. The worst situation is for those who work but do not work hard enough to get even the minimum kinds of results. They have exerted themselves and taken on some suffering, yet they have not done enough to get even preliminary results. Their scorecard stands at zero, and they are left with no motivation to do anything more. The speaker concludes that you are not required to take up a very high kind of suffering. You should do only as much as you can, but you must do as much as you can. You are not required to go beyond your capacity, and if you fail, it is only because you did not exercise your capacity. If your scorecard always stands at zero, it is clear proof that you are not doing even half of what you are capable of.