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The Mindvalley Podcast

Modern Wisdom With Ancient Roots - Dr. Srikumar Rao

The Mindvalley Podcast

Mindvalley

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Is there an undercurrent of anxiety in your life that is not going away? When you rewire the dysfunctional ‘mental models’ you have, your experience of life improves quickly. In this Live Call with Vishen, Dr. Srikumar Rao will discuss how to bounce back from dysfunctional mental models that prevent you from soaring and bringing joy into your life. Dr. Srikumar Rao holds a Ph.D. from Columbia Business School, and his courses have been among the most popular and highest-rated at many of the world’s top business schools. His work has been covered extensively by major media worldwide. He is the author of Are You Ready to Succeed? Unconventional Strategies for Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life and Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful—No Matter What. He is also the creator and narrator of the audio learning course The Personal Mastery Program: Discovering Passion and Purpose in Your Life and Work. Listen out for: - The key to getting over stress and overwhelm. - What is mental chatter and why is it dangerous? - Is it possible to enter the enlightenment state at will? - How to avoid serial procrastination. - Why we can't solve an internal problem with external action?    Bonus:                                                                          - Get your own copy of Dr. Srikumar Rao’s new book here 👉https://go.mindvalley.com/cZG4GsmN  - Check out professor Srikumar Rao's FREE Masterclass here for a life of more ease, bliss, and grace 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/podcast_dxr        - Subscribe to 'Mindvalley Membership' to discover 65+ transformational Mindvalley programs – at a surprisingly low annual fee. You can also watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community here 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW      Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You never really know whether what happens is a tragedy or it's a bump in the road which could

0:08.1

leave to great things. Why do you label it a tragedy? Simply label it this happened.

0:12.4

And then see, can I think of a scenario where this could actually be a good thing?

0:16.5

And then what can I do to actually make it so any move seamlessly from the realm of despair

0:22.9

to the realm of possibility?

0:24.5

I am Mission Lacchiani, founder of Mind Dali, the School for Human Transformation.

0:28.9

You're listening to the Mind Dali podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers

0:32.8

and thought leaders on the planet. It has got the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth

0:38.0

for my, body, spirit and work. Welcome back to the Mind Dali podcast, everyone.

0:43.6

And our guest today is one of my favorite people to interview. He is the famous MBA professor

0:51.2

Sri Kumar Rao. And although Sri Kumar may not be a celebrity in a traditional way in the

0:58.9

personal growth world, I personally have cited his ideas more than pretty much anyone else,

1:06.7

more than Tony Robbins, more than Jay Shetty, more than any other person who has had a profound

1:13.1

impact on my life. And the reason for that is because of Sri Kumar's brilliant mind. He has been

1:20.3

teaching a class called Personal Mastery at MBA programs across the world. And these classes

1:26.2

would get long lines of students lining up to join. He was famous for this. He was teaching at

1:32.4

Kellogg at Columbia at London Business School. And what made Sri Kumar's lessons to MBA students

1:38.2

so powerful was that he would bring ancient wisdom into the modern world. And this method of

1:45.8

analyzing life of living, of crushing it at work while being able to live peacefully in bliss

1:54.8

with the wisdom of ancient Indian spiritual masters to people like Rumi, to ancient Taoist beliefs

2:03.5

is one of the reasons why Sri Kumar has such a profound impact on my life. I prefer to him in the

2:09.1

past as my personal Yoda. So let me read you. I've told you a couple of things about him that I

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