S3 Ep 48: Cultivating Inner Success and Building Emotional Resilience with Suneel Gupta
Dec 1, 2023
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Suneel Gupta, author of 'EVERYDAY DHARMA', discusses emotional resilience, cultivating inner success, and debunking parenting myths. They explore the alignment between Eastern wisdom and Western science, finding comfort in discomfort, and the importance of allowing children to face challenges and overcome hardship.
Cultivating inner success involves finding joy and fulfillment in work and parenting through connecting with one's inner calling or essence, known as Dharma.
Helping children find their essence involves fostering their sense of self and purpose beyond traditional job titles, allowing them to explore various expressions of their essence and navigate the uncertainties of the future.
Deep dives
Embracing Simple Habits for Sustainable Peak Performance
Sunil Gupta, a visiting scholar at Harvard Medical School, discusses how simple habits can bolster emotional resilience and engagement, leading to sustainable peak performance. He emphasizes the importance of finding joy and fulfillment in work and parenting by connecting with one's inner calling or essence, known as Dharma. Embracing Dharma can help individuals thrive and navigate challenges, allowing them to express their true selves and find meaning in various ways of self-expression.
Helping Kids Find Their Essence Amid Achievement Pressures
Gupta and the host discuss the challenges of helping children find their essence in a culture that prioritizes achievement and performance. They acknowledge the need to foster children's sense of self and purpose beyond traditional job titles, allowing them to explore various expressions of their essence. By embracing their true passions and being open to change, children can navigate the uncertainties of the future and find their own paths to fulfillment and success.
The Power of the Space Between and Inner Success
The concept of the 'space between' is explored, highlighting the importance of finding comfort in discomfort and allowing emotions and experiences to unfold naturally. The idea of inner success, separate from external achievements, is discussed, emphasizing the significance of joy, meaning, and fulfillment in life. The importance of lengthening the 'wick' in moments of anger or discomfort, and having a short fuse for kindness and appreciation, is also touched upon.
Pranoia: Seeing Challenges as Opportunities
The concept of Pranoia is introduced, highlighting the perspective that everything happening to an individual is ultimately happening for their benefit. The story of the art of golden repair, Kintsugi, is used as a metaphor to illustrate how challenges can lead to growth and transformation. The importance of embracing adversity and seeing it as an opportunity for self-discovery, resilience, and inner transformation is emphasized.
This week, we sit down with Suneel Gupta, author of ‘EVERYDAY DHARMA: 8 Essential Practices for Finding Success and Joy in Everything You Do’, to discuss how to bolster emotional resilience in ourselves and in our children. We also dive into the key pillars of Dharma, and how to use them to cultivate inner success and help our children find their essence.
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