In response to a question about balancing various aspects of life, Acharya Prashant advises starting by seeing where one's time is actually going. He distinguishes between two types of time: the objective, material time measured by a clock, which he calls chronological time, and the subjective, psychological time, which is time as experienced in the head. He explains that this psychological time does not run in the same way as material time, and it is crucial to understand this difference. Acharya Prashant elaborates that time intervals that are boring, distasteful, or dislikable tend to "stretch within" and are experienced as being longer and more significant than they are in reality. For example, an unpleasant commute of one and a half hours might feel much longer. Conversely, time spent on pleasing but unproductive activities, like scrolling through social media, is often mentally minimized or hidden, as if it were zero. This distortion occurs because we are not mindful of the fact that the experiencer shapes the experience. This skewed perception of time leads to flawed internal calculations, making one feel like a victim of external circumstances. One might believe that factors like traffic or demanding schedules consume all their time, leaving none for self-development, hobbies, or relationships. The speaker warns against the mistake of transporting this internal, subjective experience of time to outer, objective calculations. He urges the listener to be objective and keep a record of where time is truly going, noting that significant time is often spent on activities one doesn't even want to admit to themselves. He concludes that while some things, like traffic, are unchangeable, there are many things within our control. Focusing on the unchangeable becomes a clever internal ploy to avoid changing what is changeable. Instead, one should make the best use of any situation. He suggests using unavoidable time, such as a commute, constructively by reading or listening to audio files, citing examples of people who wrote prolifically while in confinement.