When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment. — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Can you actually go through life without labeling what happens to you as good or bad? Sure you can. You have to… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer. — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Galileo got it wrong. The earth does not revolve around the sun. It revolves around you and has been doing so for… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
I don't believe that you have a work life and a home life. I believe that you have one life, and either… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Whenever you're feeling grateful, you are not feeling frustrated and angry and all those negative states that we go into. And that's… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
You have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. If you don't succeed in this, then you… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
If something comes that it is so extreme that you have difficulty thinking of it as a good thing, don't think of… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
I don't believe that being an inspiring leader is a goal that you can aspire to. It is a by-product. — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Most of us function under the model we have to get something in order to do something, in order to be something.… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie. — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do. — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
We, as individuals, must be responsible for our careers with the goal of reaching our highest potential. The job of a manager is to… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment. — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Consciously be sensitive to others, and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Don't do this by being preachy and telling them that they… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
No matter what happens to us in life, we tend to think of it as 'good' or 'bad.' And most of us tend to… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
