Acharya Prashant explains that clarity is attained by observing the very fog and haze that obfuscates it. All that obscures one's clarity must be known, and this is the process of attaining it. He states that if one is surrounded by people with a herd mentality, it is because those people are also present within oneself; otherwise, they could not be around. Observing these people externally is a form of self-observation, as one is seeing their own face in the faces of others. Their arguments are one's own arguments against oneself and they only have an effect because they resonate with something within. The speaker advises the questioner to listen to the arguments of these people, see where they come from, observe their lives, and then ask himself if that is the kind of life he wants to live. He points out that their arguments are not in a vacuum but are connected to their entire way of life, including their personal lives, professional choices, and political opinions. The choice of whether to emulate them is crucial because something within the questioner definitely wants to live that way. The need to counter their arguments arises only because they have power over him; otherwise, he would be indifferent. This power comes from an inner resonance, as they are representing his own face back to him. Acharya Prashant uses the analogy of flies being found where there is dirt, urging the questioner to identify and clean up the inner "dirt." He explains that the people one surrounds oneself with are a reflection of one's inner state. The solution is to seek good company. He notes that those who wanted to help have made themselves available through various means like books and videos. By being in their company, one's internal world changes. As the inner world changes, the need to associate with cowardly people reduces, and reverence for the right kind of people increases. These two processes go in tandem.