Acharya Prashant addresses the issue of decreasing attention spans by explaining that two things are simultaneously at work. First, the objects we attend to are usually not worth our attention. Second, there is an explosion in the number of objects potentially available to us. The mind is an unfulfilled entity that wants to be with something to feel at peace. Today, we are presented with thousands of objects competing for our attention, but none of them are particularly worthy. This is a characteristic of our age: there is too much to be had, but too little that is worthy of being had. Consequently, we move from one thing to another without staying long, because nothing is truly worthwhile. The mind is a hungry thing searching for the right food, but our surroundings and technology offer a lot that is not worthy of being ingested. The speaker suggests that a short attention span is not the problem but a savior, preventing us from getting absorbed in unworthy things. It is good that the mind gets bored and disinterested. We are like adults who are kids in name only, toying with our own lives and deceiving ourselves with entertainment, sloth, sleep, and cheap titillation. The mind's hunger is real and seeks a real solution, not illusions or placebos. We are surrounded by an ocean of ugliness, with an infinite number of choices that are all fundamentally the same and unworthy. The mind wants to fly away; it needs a real airbus, not toy rockets. The mind has a real pain and sorrow that cannot be laughed away or neglected. The speaker explains that we are an imperfect consciousness seeking perfection. The imperfections of consciousness cannot be healed by something that is unconscious in itself, like the world. The world is inert matter (Jad), incapable of changing. Only a conscious entity can change. The entire Vedanta is a choice between the world (Sansaar or Jagat) and the Self (Atma). The world represents quantity, while the Self represents quality. As a young person, one must decide whether to pursue quantity or quality. The hunger of the mind is real and seeks a real solution. We cannot fool the mind for long by serving it nonsense and hoping for a satisfied look.