
Teacher
International Speaker And Bestselling Author
Professor Srikumar Rao is an international speaker, bestselling author, and one of the most popular Business School Professors in America. His courses were among the highest rated and most popular at many of the world’s top business schools, including Columbia Business School and London Business School. Executives flock to his workshops from companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM, American Express, Johnson & Johnson, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and countless more. They seek help and mentoring in the areas of meaning, purpose, performance, and leadership. A regular contributor to Forbes, Inc.com and CEO.com, his perspectives on business strategy and the spiritual dimensions of success are widely sought after in various media channels.
You can never beat the universe. Because even if you do shape it to the way you like it to be, that's not what you were really looking for. And you discover that afterward.
Ratings and plays from Mindvalley’s library
You explore why unhappiness comes from false beliefs about what will make you happy, then learn to accept your life as it is right now. The meditation teaches you to focus effort on actions and processes within your control rather than outcomes, which paradoxically increases both peace and success. Use this in the morning to start your day free from the "if-then" trap that blocks contentment.
Insight On Reducing Stress by Allowing
You listen as Srikumar Rao explains how rigidity about how life should be creates stress, and how acceptance of what arrives—while still taking action—brings freedom. The meditation teaches you to stop labeling events as good or bad, since circumstances often reveal different meanings over time. It's designed to build resilience by shifting your relationship with uncertainty, best used when facing life challenges or before sleep.
Srikumar Rao
You explore why unhappiness comes from false beliefs about what will make you happy, then learn to accept your life as it is right now. The meditation teaches you to focus effort on actions and processes within your control rather than outcomes, which paradoxically increases both peace and success. Use this in the morning to start your day free from the "if-then" trap that blocks contentment.
Srikumar Rao
You listen as Srikumar Rao explains how rigidity about how life should be creates stress, and how acceptance of what arrives—while still taking action—brings freedom. The meditation teaches you to stop labeling events as good or bad, since circumstances often reveal different meanings over time. It's designed to build resilience by shifting your relationship with uncertainty, best used when facing life challenges or before sleep.