Acharya Prashant explains that the desire to control thoughts is itself a thought that needs to be examined. If one's thoughts are of a high quality, there is no need to control them; if they are not, then the thought of controlling them is likely flawed as well. He critiques the concept of positive thinking, describing it as a hypocrisy where people merely try to increase what they like and decrease what they dislike without understanding the source of their preferences. Spirituality, he asserts, is not about fulfilling personal likes but about investigating where these likes and dislikes originate and how they were learned.