Acharya Prashant begins by asking the audience about the things that give them stress, with students mentioning GPA, deadlines, assignments, getting jobs, commuting, and performance. He acknowledges that these stressors are common and that a certain level of stress is alright as it keeps one disciplined. The problem, he explains, arises when stress becomes everything, causing one to lose sight of joy, freedom, and attainment, and to feel overwhelmed. He advises that one must learn to handle stress by, for instance, cracking jokes about one's own tension. Stress is okay, and it is not even desirable to live with zero stress. The key is to have things in life that are bigger than your stress and to understand the right and relative place of everything. If dealt with correctly, stress can be a friend that crystallizes something within you and makes you stronger. However, if one does not know the right place of stress in life, it becomes threatening, anti-life, and can lead to physical diseases, reducing one's ability to work, concentrate, and be meditative. To cope with stress, he shares a personal anecdote of falling asleep while stuck in traffic, suggesting it was a better use of time than being anxious. He emphasizes that there are more useful things to do than to live with stress. He then links stress to competitiveness, stating that competitiveness should be used to bring out the best in you, not the worst. When you find yourself lagging behind someone, you should ask yourself if you are being your best or if there is hidden potential you are not choosing to manifest. He warns against the common tendency to die carrying unexpressed potential. This potential, he explains, is referred to in Vedanta as 'Anantata', or infinity, meaning it has no limits. You insult and degrade yourself when you limit yourself in any way. The wrong kind of competitiveness involves thinking of the opponent as great or superior. Instead, when an opponent plays a great shot, one should introspect and ask, "How did I allow him a loose ball?" The focus should not be on the opponent's strength but on one's own mistakes that created the opportunity for them. Real competitiveness involves looking at oneself and trying to raise the bar within. It is not about attacking the opponent but about becoming greater than them by realizing one's own infinite potential and concentrating all inner resources on what truly matters.