Acharya Prashant addresses the question, "What is success?" He begins by stating that when you set a goal and achieve it, you say you have become successful. These goals, he explains, originate from the mind. The mind is what determines the goals. He elaborates that this mind is entirely formed by external influences and has nothing of its own. It only contains what time and others have given it. The mind has a deep connection with the brain, which is a product of centuries of evolutionary journey. The brain knows what it knows from all the experiences it has gathered, which is why we have five fingers, a specific skin color, and a heart that beats at a particular rate. The brain has learned all this through its evolutionary journey. Furthermore, the speaker explains that from the moment a child is born, their mind is subjected to thousands of external influences. It is given a religion, a name, and various identities from the outside. The mind collects all this and thinks, "This is me," because it has nothing of its own. Whatever it receives comes from the outside. The mind establishes a deep identification with these external identities and considers the external as its own. This is its nature. Consequently, the goals it sets are also determined by these external influences. The mind is like a machine; it has programming, but it lacks its own discretion or understanding. A machine only knows what it has been given through programming. Just as a fan is an efficient machine that starts when a button is pressed but knows nothing about why or how it is running, the human mind is also like a machine. It is completely a machine whose programming is done by others. External factors like society, education, family, books, and ideologies are constantly programming the mind. Since our goals are determined by external factors, they are not our own. If the goal is external and given by someone else, then the success of achieving it cannot be our own. In fact, such success is a failure. This leads to a life where the mind is always in a dilemma, running in four different directions. There is no energy or faith in our actions because the goals do not arise from our own understanding. This is why we always feel that we are unsuccessful in the present, as success is always projected into the future. True success, he concludes, is not sought after because every moment is a success. When any of your actions arise from your own attention and understanding, there is a force and energy behind it. That action itself is success. Then you are truly young.