Are you bothered about the state of the world? Heat is unrelenting in many countries and soaring temperatures are making life a misery for those without air-conditioning. And those who do have air-conditioning are stuck in their houses and not particularly happy. There is economic turmoil, …
Is the Universe Really Friendly?
Einstein supposedly said that the most important question you could ever ask is “Is the universe friendly?” We all know persons who believe that the universe is set up to frustrate them and engineers this in the most ingenious ways. Thus, if they decide to go on a vacation, the universe arranges …
Maya: The Greatest Lie Ever Told | In Conversation with Srikumar Rao & Gaurav Arora
It was a delight to join Gaurav Arora, host of the xMonks podcast in this episode. Tune in to our conversation above on Maya and Ananda and what brings true happiness. Summary: In episode 15 of the xMonks Podcast, Dr Rao joins Gaurav Arora for a conversation about the concept of Maya and its …
How to Build Great Relationships!
Will Bachman took my course, Creativity and Personal Mastery, at Columbia Business School nearly two decades ago. He was a McKinsey consultant then and has since launched Umbrex.com, a site that helps you find a consultant for virtually any kind of project. The majority of consultants in his …
Be Nobody!
In my course, Creativity and Personal Mastery, I have an exercise called Becoming Nobody. “When I was growing up, I used to be somebody. We were all in somebody training in those days. You become somebody, and then you tell everybody who you are. You hand out business cards, and you say “How do …
Don’t Freeze Them!
Here is something you do, and I bet you don’t know you do it! You ‘freeze’ people and keep them in a frozen wasteland. Puzzled? I will explain. My friend Nina was about to go on a cruise when her daughter, call her Shirley, phoned. Shirley had a nasty fight with her husband and thought her …
The Best Mindset To Sell Without Sounding Needy | Selling With Love Podcast with Dr Srikumar Rao and Jason Marc Campbell
We hope you enjoy this conversation between Dr Rao and Jason Marc Campbell, host of the "Selling with Love" Podcast. Dr Rao and Jason discuss how to sell without selling, how to overcome neediness and fear in sales, how to find meaning and joy in any circumstance, how to stop your mental chatter …
The Greatest Gift You Can Give Your Child
One of my students, let’s call her Susan, shared her problem with me recently. Her son was fifteen and alternated between boisterous exuberance and moody withdrawal. She suspected that he was borderline depressed, but he refused to talk about what, if anything, was bothering him. “I found …
Are We Living In An Illusion? Episode #1217 – The You Project Podcast with Srikumar Rao
Tune in to this conversation between Professor Rao and Craig Harper, host of The You Project Podcast, for a chat about the Matrix (we're living in one, but not the one you think), our self-created illusion, mental and emotional prisons, why identity doesn't matter, raising our consciousness and why …