Acharya Prashant begins by explaining that for him to talk about success, there must be a backdrop of failure. If one is already home or okay, they will not talk of success or accomplishment. When you say you need to be successful, there is a tacit acknowledgment that you are not yet successful. This is fine, as none of us is born successful. However, he emphasizes this because a lot of people talk too much about success without first inquiring into their own shortcoming, need, or what their failure is like. If one does not know their own requirement, what will they order in the great shopping mall that is the world? People are chasing all kinds of things and that is called success, but they do not pay attention to what they really need. Success is something we all need, but the definition of your personal success is highly personal. There can be no one set criteria that fits all. You have to figure out what it is that you lack within, and the purpose of life is to address that lack. If you lack in knowledge, then your success lies in gaining knowledge. If you lack in faith, your success would not lie in gaining knowledge or money, but in gaining faith. If you lack in love, what is the point in becoming a successful entrepreneur? It is love you lacked, and you still lack that. You are treating the wrong disease, you are barking up the wrong tree. Our education, from school to college to doctorate, fails to take us inward. It's not that the subjects taught are worthless; they are very important. But the word 'self' is entirely missing from our curricula. You are taught about everything, but who is it that receives all the knowledge? The self. And the self is never taught. Because of this, we have very stupid goals. We do not know the nature of the self, or where our dreams and desires come from. There is nobody who teaches us the distinction between dream and greed. The ones responsible for the 2008 financial meltdown were all from Ivy League institutions, yet they did something so suicidal, so childish, so irresponsible because they were not educated in the self. We copy others' goals. We take a weighted average of what everybody else wants, and that becomes our want. Before you run after goals, you must ask where your goals are coming from. Goal-setting is life-setting. If goals go wrong, life goes wrong. Your goal is everything. Your goal has to arise from your own insufficiency. Your dream, your desire, your ambition has to be rooted in where you are still insufficient, deficient. The world outside can offer you a path, but a path is not a goal. Earning money, if it is a suitable way to get rid of your fear, then do earn money. But earning money cannot be an end in itself. You live in the world within. Therefore, the insufficiency that has to be addressed has to be an internal thing. Therefore, the goal has to be internal.