Acharya Prashant addresses a student's inability to concentrate on his studies despite his parents' advice. He begins by pointing out that the fundamental problem is a 22 or 25-year-old quoting his parents, which indicates a lack of independence. He states that love and parental instruction do not sit well together, using the analogy of being told by parents to marry someone and then trying to concentrate on that person. He argues that the success of parenting lies in leaving the child free after a certain point. If a child remains mentally or financially dependent at 22, 25, or 28, the parents have failed. Acharya Prashant criticizes the tendency to depend on trends or advice, calling it a "prescription to a loveless life." He then distinguishes between concentration and attention, clarifying that scriptures speak of attention, not concentration. He explains that concentration is an act of the ego, driven by desire (Kamna) to achieve a certain outcome. Because desires are inherently unfulfilling and ever-changing, any concentration based on them will be fickle and temporal, always shifting to a more promising object. This is why people struggle to maintain focus; their concentration is not lost but has simply moved to another desire. In contrast, attention is a different quality that arises from love, not desire. It is a genuine, selfless interest in knowing something for its own sake, akin to service. Attention is stable because it is not tied to the fulfillment of personal desires. The speaker asserts that the problem of concentration is fundamentally a problem of having an unworthy object of focus. To have stable attention, one must find something in life that is worthy of love, something one can die for. When such an object is found, concentration becomes effortless and natural (Sahaj). He concludes that a loveless life is unbearable and requires immense, draining effort to maintain focus. The solution is not to eliminate options but to find a beautiful option to fall in love with. When one finds this, there is no need to *try* to concentrate; one is simply and naturally concentrated. The problem is not an unstable mind, but a mind that is thirsty for something special and is not being provided with it.