How to Be Awesome at Your Job

896: Finding More Success and Joy in Everything You Do with Suneel Gupta

Sep 7, 2023

Suneel Gupta shares ancient Indian wisdom for daily success, including the eight essential practices, resetting energy in five minutes, and achieving more with 85% effort. They discuss the concept of Dharma, optimizing for energy, controlling emotions, the 85% rule for sustainable performance, different mindsets for task completion, and discovering your Dharma through childhood interests.

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Suneel Gupta

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Quick takeaways

Discovering your Dharma involves tapping into your essence and expressing it to the world, uncovering what truly matters to you and finding fulfillment in life and work.

Taking regular, focused breaks can recharge your energy and increase productivity, contributing to a sense of presence and well-being.

Finding success and joy requires balancing surrender and intentionality, making intentional choices while surrendering to the natural flow of life.

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Finding Your Dharma: Uncovering Your Sacred Duty

Discovering and expressing your Dharma, or sacred duty, is about tapping into your essence and expressing it to the world. The concept of Dharma is rooted in ancient wisdom and involves finding and aligning with your true self. By going beneath external occupations and connecting with your essence, you can uncover what truly matters to you and explore different ways to express it. Engaging in practices like self-reflection, talking to people who knew you as a child, and exploring various possibilities can help you discover your Dharma and find fulfillment in life and work.

Introduction

2min

Dharma: Essence, Expression, and Inner Success

27min

Optimizing for Energy and Controlling Emotions

8min

The 85% Rule: Sustainable Performance and Growth

6min

Exploring Different Mindsets and Energies for Task Completion

2min

Individuality, Self-Expression, and Harmony

5min

Discovering Your Dharma Through Childhood Interests

2min

Suneel Gupta shows how to find more joy and success every day by drawing from the wisdom of ancient Indian traditions.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The eight essential practices for daily success.

2) How to reset your energy in just five minutes.

3) Why you achieve more with only 85% of the effort.

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— ABOUT SUNEEL —

Suneel Gupta lost his Dharma and then found it again. He is the founding CEO of RISE and co-founder of the Gross National Happiness Center in the United States. As an author, a visiting scholar at Harvard Medical School, and host of a hit documentary series, Suneel studies the most extraordinary people on the planet to discover and share simple, actionable habits to lift our performance and deepen our daily sense of purpose. His work has been featured by major outlets including CNBC, TED, and the New York Times.

• Book: Everyday Dharma: 8 Essential Practices for Finding Success and Joy in Everything You Do

• Past Episode: 708: The 7 Steps to Winning Others’ Support with Suneel Gupta

• Website: SuneelGupta.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Tool: OmniFocus

• Experiment: Dartmouth Scar Experiment

• Book: The Bhagavad Gita translated by Eknath Easwaran

• Book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

• Book: Be Here Now by Ram Dass

• Previous episode: 625: How to Be Happier, More Fulfilled, and More Effective Every Day with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar

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