Acharya Prashant explains that most people frame their problems in terms of time, asking what to do when a problem occurred in the past or might occur in the future. He asserts that this framing is a way to hide from the present reality. By claiming that a mistake happened 'then,' an individual falsely assumes they are conscious and 'smart' now. However, the speaker is the same person who made the mistake; the current sense of understanding is often just another state of the same unconscious mind. He emphasizes that the beginning of a solution must be rooted in the truth of the present. If one starts with the false claim of being alright now, no genuine resolution can be reached.