Acharya Prashant addresses the question of how important rationality is in decision-making by stating that there is no other way. He defines rationality as the emphasis on discretion over instinct and reason over emotion. He asserts that one must be not just 'quite' rational, but completely rational, letting the intellect go all the distance. Decisions should not arise from the blind wave and primitive momentum of physical and mental tendencies, intuitions, or instincts. However, this reasonableness must be honest. When one is honestly intellectual, the intellect itself will come to see its own limits. Exercising the mind and its reasoning capabilities to their fullest potential brings the mind to its own boundary, which fosters humility. This humility, in turn, leaves space open for a higher kind of decision-making. This higher decision comes after the mind has done everything it can and has nothing more to offer. When a decision then comes from somewhere else, there is nobody left within the mind to contest it. Acharya Prashant distinguishes between two types of matters. The first involves purely material factors, such as solving a mathematical equation or designing a machine. In these cases, the decision-making process must be utterly and absolutely reasonable, and it is a mistake to involve intuition or emotion. The second type involves non-material matters like contentment, joy, love, and rightness. For these, reason must be transcended, not avoided. Transcending reason implies using it to its fullest capacity first, only to discover that in certain life matters, reason does not suffice. The process is to first be as reasonable as possible, know the facts, and understand the situation intellectually. After all that is possible has been done, one can let the decision come from a place beyond the mind or intellect.