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On Purpose with Jay Shetty

Kunal Nayyar ON: How To Stop Obsessing About The Future & Programming Your Mind For Peace

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.828.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jay Shetty and Kunal Nayyar sit down to talk about Nayyar’s journey from India to California. From the moment he first experienced acting, Nayyar knew he’d found his passion. Learning how to handle the intensity of the experience of acting, however, was something he wasn’t prepared for. Watch this video to learn how Nayyar discovered that simple intention is the key to contentment. You’ll also hear how he learned to let go and embrace himself to find freedom within. Text Jay Shetty 310-997-4177 Want to have YOUR best year yet? Join me for my Free Online Workshop: 5 Intentions for a Purpose-Filled Year https://jayshetty.me/purpose

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0:00.0

You have to give up your opinions about the world. You have to give up your ideas of the world.

0:08.0

You have to give up your ideas of who you are and how you view the world to truly be free.

0:14.0

To truly be free. People want to be more loving and more confident and more positive and more peaceful.

0:19.0

Yet they're not willing to exchange the one thing that is in the way, which is their idea of themselves.

0:31.0

Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose, the best place in the world to learn, listen and grow every single week.

0:38.0

Thanks to each and every one of you that tune in, that download the episodes and that connect.

0:43.0

And you know that my promise to you is to try and find guests that are going to help you find awakening, find growth, learn new techniques, learn new skills, and even open your minds up to a new way of living.

0:56.0

And today's guest is going to do just that. He's a very, very dear friend, someone who's, I've had so many great offline conversations with him that I've been probing him to say, let's record this and share it with the world.

1:09.0

So today's guest is none other than Kunal Nyer, best known for his incredible work as Rajesh on television's number one longest running multi-camera comedy, The Big Bang Theory.

1:20.0

The series has been nominated for multiple Emmy Golden Globe, SAG Critic Choice Awards and one of the People's Choice Awards for Favorite Network TV Comedy, three years in a row.

1:31.0

In 2015, Kunal made his New York Theatre debut in The Spoils. He starred in the off-roadway play alongside Jesse Eisenberg, who also wrote the play.

1:40.0

Today I'm excited to talk about his career as an actor and also his philosophy on life.

1:45.0

Kunal, thank you for doing this man.

1:46.0

It's a rousing, rousing introduction. Wow. Thank you.

1:50.0

It's all honest, it's all true. And the best thing about this is Kunal's had one of the busiest weeks is flying off the London tonight and he still found time to do this.

1:59.0

You're a real friend, Kunal. No, thank you. I'm so glad. Thanks for having me. I'm a huge fan of everything that you're doing. So anything I can do to be a part of it.

2:05.0

Thank you. And the way we met is so, so fun because I remember there was just so many random touch points.

2:11.0

So we have a lot of mutual friends who'd mentioned you to me and said, oh, you two would really get along. You could talk for hours.

2:17.0

And then the crazy thing is I was at a lake is game with my wife. And she sees you.

2:22.0

She's like, oh, that's going to be a big bang there. And you were far away. So we didn't get to say hello that day.

2:26.0

And then literally the week after we were talking. Yeah. And it was like this beautiful series of events where you're just like the universe is trying to bring you closer to someone. That's how I felt anyway.

2:35.0

No, absolutely. I called it the six degrees of separation from being Indian. That's what happens.

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