Acharya Prashant responds to a student who is unable to study due to a chaotic family environment. He advises that one must give centrality to one thing in life, which means giving it the highest priority and importance. If studying is truly the most precious thing in your eyes, then anything can be sacrificed or left for it. You must clearly tell yourself that you have no responsibility to be present in situations that pollute your mind or create unnecessary turmoil and disturbances. It is not your duty to be present where your mind is being defiled or where needless commotion and disturbances are being created. Acknowledging the practical difficulty for a student to completely leave such an environment, he offers an alternative. The more noise there is outside, the more you should remember within yourself what you need to do. The increasing noise should become your helper, reminding you that you do not want to remain in such an environment in the future. Therefore, you must not be a participant in that noise. If it's not possible to be away from it, then the external commotion should become a reminder of your goal. The external filth should make you realize with more strength and force that this is the very thing you need to get away from, and that is why you are studying. The art of living is to identify the one central problem. For the student, the central problem is to get a good job through studies. The benefit of focusing on one big problem is that dozens of small problems no longer have time to be addressed. When a lion is in front of you, you don't notice a mosquito biting your hand. The speaker explains that this is the method of life: identify one central problem. He calls this central problem self-knowledge or liberation. For the student, in her current stage of life, the central problem is to get a good job by studying. Once you are fully dedicated to that, the small issues of the household will not bother you. The things that are not truly important, if you give them importance, will become a nuisance in your life and make you forget what is truly valuable.