1786 | Srikumar Rao: “Suffering Doesn’t Begin When Something Happens, Suffering Begins the Instant You Decide that What Happened is Terrible.”
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Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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On today’s episode, Dr. Srikumar Rao shares a lesson on why suffering begins when we label events as either good or bad.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, today's QOD is! Suffering doesn't begin when something happens. Suffering begins the |
| 0:07.8 | instant you decide that what happened is terrible. Here we go! |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to the Quarter of the Day Show! I'm your Hope Shine! CrocksInTheShineCrocksin.com. |
| 0:43.2 | Today's talk is amazing. I hope you like really tune in for this one and soak it in because what |
| 0:49.0 | Dr. Rouse, Rikumar Rouse, going to talk about is a real game changer. This changed my life |
| 0:54.3 | like 10, 15 years ago when I really embraced this thought, this concept. And what he's going to |
| 1:00.1 | talk about is why suffering begins when we label events as either good or bad. Dr. Rikumar Rouse, |
| 1:09.6 | coming up. Now this is a very powerful tool that I'm going to share with you. There is something that |
| 1:20.0 | you do and you do it multiple times every day and it is hugely deleterious to your well-being |
| 1:29.0 | in existence, but you do it anyway. Now what is the thing that you do multiple times every day |
| 1:36.5 | that you don't know is having a negative effect effect upon your life? It is a habit we all have |
| 1:45.6 | of sticking a label on whatever happens to us. And the two labels that I'm particularly interested in |
| 1:52.8 | are the good thing, bad thing label. Now think about that. No matter what happens to you, |
| 1:59.5 | in your head you immediately classify it as either good or bad. Nothing is neutral. You know, |
| 2:06.8 | it's either slightly good or slightly bad. And most of us tend to use the bad thing label |
| 2:15.7 | three to ten times as often as a good thing label. Your spouse calls up and tells you that your |
| 2:23.0 | in-laws are coming for dinner. This is bad. They may stay for the weekend. This is really bad. |
| 2:30.8 | Think about it. No matter what happens, don't you stick a good thing or a bad thing label on it |
| 2:37.7 | immediately? Here's something for you to think about. No matter what happens, no matter what the |
| 2:49.6 | event is, an event does not cause suffering. Let's assume you get fired. You now no longer have a job. |
| 3:04.5 | But the moment you go, oh my god, I got fired. How do I pay my mortgage? My son's tuition is |
| 3:14.1 | you. This is terrible. And the moment you say this is terrible at that instant suffering |
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