Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots: The Movers and Shakers' Guide to Unstoppable Success

This book is a cornucopia of practical wisdom. Applicatuon of it's principles will bring a sense of peace, joy eand ease to your days. I love this book and very highly recommend it.

Deep insights in bitesize chunks. Wonderful stories that hold deep wisdom and Prof. Rao offers practical tips on how to implement them. One of the most useful books I've read this year. Definitely recommended!

Prof. Rao’s book was an absolute delight to read and a fantastic journey on what we can learn from some ancient wisdom and bring to our own personal and professional lives to find fulfillment.The book is filled with short and to-the-point pieces of wisdom and, most importantly, how to apply them to our daily lives. I found Rao’s reflection on the mental chatters which occupy our minds extremely powerful. Rao’s dives deeper into what is causing the mental chatters to develop and provides simple but powerful ways to quieten those chatters and “re-write” more useful ones.The 62 reflections in the book have been a great opportunity to pause and reflect on how to improve my personal and professional fulfillment. The practices in the book are clearly explained. Each practice contains examples and personal experiences, making it easy to focus on deep and profound concepts which we should all be spending considerable more attention on to achieve more. If you feel you are not achieving the fulfillment you want in your personal and professional life, then this book is for you. It will provide you with the frameworks and reflection to build a more full life.

This is a really well written book that brings to life profound wisdom and valuable lessons from ancient sources but in a modern and practical manner that makes them very accessible.I have had the opportunity to learn from Dr. Srikumar Rao a few years back when I took his Quest for Personal Mastery from Mindvalley and then last year when I took his pioneering programme - Creative and Personal Mastery (CPM). His teachings have had a significant impact on my thinking and have helped change and upgrade my mental models, how I view the world and how I react to events that happen in my personal and professional life.This book brings this wisdom in a very quick and easy to read manner. With 62 mini chapters, each chapter introduces a concept and there are stories that bring to life how that concept has impacted a person's life. Each chapter is thought provoking and provides practical guidance on how you can experiment with this new thinking.Whether it is about Mental models, developing gratitude, building resilience, dealing with your mental chatter, choosing a spiritual path, building equanimity, striving for a purpose, moving away from being me-centred to other-centred, building presence or enriching your relationships this book will open up your world view and provide you with insight to support with changing both your personal and professional life.I particularly liked the questions and exercises at the end of the book which provided reflection and review of the chapter concepts and ways to incorporate in my life. For me continually working on reducing my mental chatter, not giving it meaning and refining my mental models whilst adopting an attitude of gratitude is something I am consistently trying to work on and grateful that the book provides valuable reminders on these.This is a great book no matter your age and what juncture you are in life. Read it with a mindset of curiosity and just try out the suggestions and see how this works for you. I am willing to bet you will be pleasantly surprised or even shocked at how this helps you transform all areas of your life.

If you're ready to learn new things and let those concepts sink in, this book will change you. It will allow you to live a wonderful life and you will see that it is really possible to get there!

Modern wisdom, ancient roots is a fabulous book, that I will be reading repeatedly in the years to come. Funny enough not because I don’t understand the book but because it talks to my inner awareness and supports the fragile inner pattern that gives me an eased mind.I love all the short chapters, that makes it very easy to use this book as a piece of mind handbook, that I can just visit whenever I need some reassuring.Especially the notion that things aren’t good or bad, it’s just things that happens. But when I put my judgment on to things, that happens in my life, they change and becomes good or bad, and will affect me as such. It is a very simple way to avoid stressing yourself, and I have used it on several occasions. When an important meeting gets cancelled, I can now say to myself, that it just happens without getting irritated og disappointed. Often, I have later found out that it was for the best, that this meeting was postponed or not held at all.I have been following Dr. Srikumar Rao for some years now and have become quite good at not listening to my mental chatter. And amazingly it does fade away when I don’t allow my feelings to react to it.If you don’t know Dr. Srikumar Rao, I will most strongly recommend this book to you. I promise you that it has the potential to make your life so much better.

I thought I've heard everything from Mr. Rao, but he could touch me with his message again. I had the "voaw" moments....several time.He shows to see the world and my experience in it in different perspective.I could stop one of my bed habit without pain ans second thought, by just asking the one question he suggested from myself whenever the urge hit me. Works....

Today is an Auspicious day of Vijayadashmi ! That comes after the nine nights of Goddess, worship, exuberant energy! This day embarks on the win of goodness over evil. What could have been a better day than this to write a review on the latest book by Dr.SriKumar Rao. This is surely not just a coincidence but the Benevolent Universe playing its game. All though I have been Dr. Rao’s student and have read his earlier books this one came surely at a timing when I needed the reminder boost. The book has multiple wisdom shots. The best thing is the ancient roots are being presented in the modern wisdom shots that surely go deeper than sheer intellectual understanding of it.Some things that not just left an impact but stuck with me: your mind is the most fertile garden that you will ever see and We live in our minds 😊.Recognizing that we have mental models itself is the first step towards a blissful life.Earlier perhaps working on a habit , discarding and forming a new habit would have been my approach towards self growth.However, clinging on to even a positive habit for a long period and not recognizing is still a clinging. And hence living the life with one moment a time , what it is right now that is it has now been my Mantra now. Enjoying the process than only thinking of the outcome, don’t be your mental chatter but yet constant gentle pressure this and much more has been the impact of Dr. Rao , his work and the pioneer course of CPM by the Rao institute.I totally recommend this book and even his earlier books for everyone. This is not just Modern Wisdom but a must have treasure for life.-Mindful Manasi

a great read!