2088 | Dr. Srikumar Rao: “There is Nothing You Have to Do or Get or Be in Order to Be Happy.”

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Sean Croxton

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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On today’s episode, Dr. Srikumar Rao discusses the flawed “if-then” mental model that may be keeping you from being happy.

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0:00.0	Yo, today's QOD is, there is nothing you have to do or get or be in order to be happy.
0:09.1	Here we go.
0:37.2	Here we go. Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton.com.
0:39.9	We got Dr. Sri Kumar Rao back on this show today.
0:43.5	He's going to talk about the if-then mentality model that we talked about yesterday,
0:48.8	which is, if I reach this goal, then I'll be happy.
0:54.0	Now, you want to scratch that.
0:55.6	We want to be happy now.
0:58.2	Dr. Rouse coming up.
1:00.9	What do you have to get in order to be happy?
1:07.0	And in, yeah, I'm absolutely right, by the way.
1:14.6	In general, whatever you can get, you can also un-get. Is that correct?
1:16.6	And if you can get something that makes you happy and you can also un-get it,
1:20.6	then what does it do for your happiness?
1:23.6	Well, I'm going to suggest to you that there is nothing that you have to do or get or be in order to be happy.
1:35.6	Happiness is hardwired into you.
1:37.5	It's part of your DNA.
1:40.3	It's inbuilt into you.
1:41.7	Your nature, your nature is happiness.
1:46.5	Now, you're listening very politely,
1:48.4	and some of the audiences I go to,
1:49.8	they're not quite so polite,
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