Acharya Prashant observes that today's generation, particularly millennials, is not willing to be scolded. He questions if it is a mere coincidence that the prevalence of mental disease is also highest among millennials. When you are not willing to be scolded by your well-wishers, life itself will kick you. You can either tolerate being scolded by those who tell you things for your own good, or you can endure when life hits you with a hammer and breaks you. He notes that if you say anything to boys in the seventh or eighth grade, they will say, "This is not chill, you are bullying me." By this logic, our greatest bullies were our saints, like Shri Krishna and Ashtavakra, who spent their lives telling people things without ever sugarcoating them. They presented the truth as it is. However, today's youth have no connection with them and will not read them for this very reason. The entire culture today stands on three pillars: happiness, consumption, and motivation. These three are interconnected, and their combined result is that we are becoming terribly sick. Our bodies may look healthy, but our minds are very, very sick. Mental illness is easy to hide because there is no meter to measure it. A person hides their illness until it erupts from every fiber of their being. When ten people are sick, the sickness becomes normal, and the one who is healthy will be called sick. The definitions of illness are being inverted. Life is constantly ready to teach you through the small signals and jolts it gives you every day; do not ignore them. If you are troubled by your job, it is not an isolated matter. The decision to take that job and to remain in it is connected to all the other decisions in your life. But we don't want to understand because if we do, we will have to pay a price. Once you accept that you have made a wrong decision, the demand of honesty is that you make amends, which requires effort. We refuse to face life's jolts because we are conditioned to not want them. We don't want to pay the price of improvement. We are caught between attachment to what is below and the effort required to go up. We have developed technologies against getting jolted. Some are material technologies, and many are spiritual technologies. A lot of the meditation you do is to prevent you from getting jolted. Your life is ruined, but you can do guided meditation for half an hour and feel better. This is a technology that will shred your tires to pieces because it is not a technology of change, but of permanence and continuation. Everything, internal and external, is engaged in the effort to ensure that nothing changes. How will you change then?