Acharya Prashant advises that one must talk back, but not from an emotional center. As an adult, one has all the rights to engage anybody in a conversation. However, engaging in a conversation is not the same as reacting emotionally. The chances are that because they hurt you, you will react, but that should not be done. It is very difficult to say which of the two common options is worse: suppressing your feelings and blocking your expression, or the subsequent explosion due to continued suppression. When you suppress your feelings and instincts for too long, one day they will explode, leaving only debris and shattered things all around. There is so much breakage and damage, a civil war within the mind. He explains that in India, the culture has been one of authority and silence—authority from the senior side and silence from the junior side. The direct blowback is that a lot of the current generation is now becoming extremely disrespectful and disregardful, precisely because they have not been engaged and were instead asked to just shut up. Young people must learn to engage their parents, seniors, and teachers. It was the responsibility of the elders to teach their kids not just how to behave, but where behavior must come from. You should not behave from your reactive, emotional center. If you feel like bursting out in a particular moment, that is not the moment to open your mouth; you should withdraw. Equally, you cannot stay withdrawn forever. At a time and place of your choice, you must respond. The speaker notes that the mind is a strange thing; it remembers all the nonsense. A hurtful conversation of a few minutes will be remembered over decades of a relationship. The ego will choose to set aside the two decades of a mother-daughter relationship and will repeat to itself those few minutes of bombardment. Every single hurtful word or abuse will be not only remembered but magnified. Even casual glances will be remembered as weapons in sarcasm. This is the work of the ego. Therefore, one must not locate the enemy just outside of oneself; a bigger enemy is lurking within, which is one's own emotions and tendency to quickly react, which has a lot to do with insecurity. He adds that this is particularly important for women. The way physical nature and societal conditioning have shaped the two genders, girls turn out to be more emotional and reactive, which is a serious handicap they face in life. Many women take their emotionality as their strength, whereas it is not. It is something untamed that arises from the body, physicality, chemicals, and hormones. One ought to understand it and stay at a safe distance from it. You must not suppress your emotions; you must understand them, and to do that, there has to be a certain detachment. That is why wisdom literature is essential, and more important for women than for men, because they are the ones who stand to lose more and are more often the targets of aggression. One must ensure they do not get lost in material and consumerist forces and pay adequate attention to setting their mind right.