In response to a question about fighting social media addiction, Acharya Prashant advises to "fight something else." He explains that if you wrestle with an opponent, you are de facto embracing them. To fight something is to be engaged with it. Therefore, instead of fighting Instagram, one should be engaged somewhere else. You don't have to fight Instagram; if you do, you are embracing it. The solution is to have other, meaningful battles in life and to fight there. When you do so, you will have very little energy to expend on these other places. Acharya Prashant clarifies that even he visits Instagram, but it is purposeful. The issue is not the platform itself but the lack of purpose in one's life. People spend a significant amount of time on social media because they don't have anything else to do. If you have a purpose, it's alright wherever you spend your time. Conversely, if you don't know your purpose, you are still wasting your time even when you are not on social media. The person who wastes time on Instagram is likely wasting their time everywhere because they are the same person coming from the same center. The entire day is wasted somewhere, and at night, time is wasted on Instagram. Social media addiction is merely a symptom of a purposeless life. This purpose cannot come from any external source; it must arise from self-observation. When you look at yourself, you know what to do. You are your own first and primary responsibility. The purpose of your life is to take care of yourself and to redeem yourself from all kinds of nonsense you are born with. This requires honestly looking at your condition and deciding you don't want to be in it anymore, then working to salvage yourself. The real culprit is not social media but a lack of self-knowledge. The fundamental problem is not knowing who I am, why I exist, or what I should do. There is a vacuum that social media happily fills. He illustrates this by pointing out that Reels can be both the venom and the anti-venom. While some are spoiled by Reels, his foundation uses the same tool to salvage the spoiled ones. The problem is not the tool, but the lack of the right thing at your heart.