Where do Those Darn Mental Models Come From? Is a long dead person running your life? Persons who take Creativity and Personal Mastery (CPM) find their lives transformed. Many shake their heads in disbelief as they discover entire systems of beliefs that were running their lives and ruining …
Srikumar Rao
What To Do When the Balloons Escape
What to do When the Balloons Escape It has happened to you and it will happen again. This is the nature of life and it is beautiful! It happened many decades ago, but I still remember it clearly. I was walking on the beach in Madras – as Chennai was then known – and it was a glorious, …
The Secret Strategy to Be Happy AND to Really Achieve Your Goals
The Secret Strategy to Be Happy AND to Really Achieve Your Goals I bet you made resolutions for this year and I further bet that many of you have already seen some of these fall by the wayside! Let me share something with you that really works. It is probably accurate to say that …
The Greatest Teacher – Your Left Little Finger!
The Greatest Teacher – Your Left Little Finger! Its Silence is Your Lesson! We are sick! I mean really, really sick!! We get all agitated about airline crashes even though the probability that we will perish in one is vanishingly small. But we ignore the real sickness that is …
Why did the mother cry?
Why did the mother cry? Life’s Lesson: Tears of Joy on a Happy Occasion The Master told good stories so his audiences grew. The little girl rushed on stage when her name was called, her eight-year-old face beaming with joy. She had won the trophy for her age group in the tennis event held …
Freedom Comes When You Don’t Want Anything From Anyone
I have an unusual take on freedom. It is not really my take at all. I learned about this from Great Masters. But it makes more visceral sense to me as I age. True freedom is when you do not want anything, anything at all, from anyone. We go through life and never recognize how much the …
Don’t Recall – Let Go of What Has Passed
Don’t Recall – Let Go of What Has Passed Clinging is the cause of your suffering Tilopa, the great Indian Master, was famous for his six bits of advice. These are also known as the Six Nails. Each nail binds you to the human condition and prevents you from experiencing the freedom that is …
A surefire way to change your habits
A surefire way to change your habits And this will also transform your life! I have taught Creativity and Personal Mastery for decades and lots of alumni have shared what they found really useful. Some of these tips could make a big difference in your life. Here is a way to break – …
You Can Make Yourself Like Stuff That is Good For You!
You Can Make Yourself Like Stuff That is Good For You! And you can show temptation the door! In my previous post about the archer who never missed I wrote about accepting and celebrating what came our way rather than bemoaning what we set out to get and failed to acquire. Can we actually …