Acharya Prashant refutes the idea that humans perform best under pressure, asserting instead that pressure brings out the worst in an individual. He describes pressure as a form of violence, torture, and a distortion of the mind caused by external factors. He explains that while the human mind is a beautifully designed instrument of intelligence, it often becomes dysfunctional due to conditioning and the substitution of intelligence with memory. Comparing a conditioned mind to a car with a dysfunctional engine, he notes that pressure acts as an external push for a mind that has lost its internal capacity to move freely. He emphasizes that pressure is rooted in fear and that one's best work is expressed only in a climate of joy and fearlessness. He encourages refusing pressure and choosing to work out of joy rather than coercion, likening true work to dancing in the rain for its own sake rather than for an external reward.