Acharya Prashant addresses the question of why one cannot change their habits despite knowing the truth intellectually. He explains that habits come and settle in an empty space within us. We have created a void in our lives, and habits come to fill that void. Constantly talking about habits is also a way of supporting that emptiness. Instead of questioning why life is empty, centerless, and aimless, we focus on the habits themselves. We have suppressed the real issue. We are only concerned with why we have acquired certain habits and who has acquired them. Habits have befallen the one who has nothing better than habits, who has an emptiness. Even if you manage to remove a habit through some trick while keeping the emptiness intact, you haven't achieved much. There are methods and techniques to remove habits, but if you do, something else will take its place. The hollowness of life will remain. Habits are not broken by paying attention to them or thinking about them. Repeatedly thinking about a habit will only lead you to replace one bad habit with another. For example, if you have a bad habit of smoking, you might replace it with the habit of sleeping late. The correct way to break a habit is to not even realize when it breaks. This happens when you find a central love in your life, something that completely absorbs your life and demands your entire life as a price, as a sacrifice. When there is something in life that is so important that it outweighs habits, then habits will lay down their arms. Then, bring that into your life before which all habits are broken. When you understand that your life is being wasted, you get a jolt, and your consciousness is startled. The mind stops dozing off. The question is not whether you have gotten rid of habits, but whether you have dedicated your body, which is the house of habits, to a great goal. When you start moving towards a great work with your habits, and those habits are not conducive to that work, they will fall away on their own. This is how habits are broken. You start running, and the fat will shed on its own, you won't even notice. The problem is not with the fat, but with the fact that you are not running towards what is worth attaining in life. When the real thing is not present in life, then both good and bad habits are the same. A good habit is better than a bad habit, but compared to the real thing, neither a good habit nor a bad habit stands anywhere.