Acharya Prashant explains that anyone who needs motivation is on the wrong path. A person on the right path would not need motivation. We often seek advice from neighbors, career counselors, or watch motivational videos on YouTube, which leads to our battery constantly draining. This creates a need for a motivational injection. The speaker criticizes common motivational slogans like, "Never give up on your dreams," or "Never break your parents' dreams," questioning what these dreams are and where they come from. He suggests that when someone says, "Yes, you can do it," the appropriate response is, "Yes, probably I can do it, but why the hell should I do it?" This highlights the importance of questioning the 'why' behind an action, not just the ability to perform it. He uses the example of a career counselor at a UPSC coaching center, who would never suggest a career in aviation because their business is to promote UPSC. This illustrates how external advice is often biased and self-serving. The speaker then discusses Hermann Hesse's novel, "Siddhartha." The protagonist, Siddhartha, a Brahmin's son, leaves home to find truth. He meets Kamala and, to impress her, gets a job and immerses himself in worldly life. He gets lost in sensory pleasures, has a child, and after Kamala's death, his son runs away. Siddhartha's journey is about finding his own path, not following others. He falls in love with Kamala and gets a job with a merchant to earn money for her. This ascetic, who was wandering in the forest seeking truth and had even rejected Gautam Buddha, gets completely engrossed in worldliness. Acharya Prashant asserts that the entire motivation industry is based on the ego. It is about making the ego God. The whole game is about running after desires. The Gita's entire knowledge is about motiveless action, and the motivation industry teaches the opposite. He explains that the need for motivation arises from a lack of self-knowledge. Without knowing who you are and where you should go, you follow the crowd or external advice. The dreams people chase are not their own; they are implanted by others. The speaker concludes that true action comes from clarity and seeing the reality, not from borrowed dreams or external motivation.