How to Cultivate Everyday Dharma, Suneel Gupta (#54)

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Kevin Rose

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Kevin sits down with Suneel Gupta CEO of RISE, a breakthrough wellness company to break down some of the key concepts in Suneel’s book, Everyday Dharma. Aside from the definition, origin and concepts of dharma, Suneel discusses how to achieve sustainable peak performance by embracing simple habits, how to bolster emotional resiliiance and engagement, and how to master psychological shifts required to overcome life setbacks. Once seen as the “face of failure” in the New York Times, Suneel Gupta understands the road to success is not always smooth. Learning from his mistakes, Suneel became the founding CEO of RISE, a breakthrough wellness company that partnered with First Lady Michelle Obama to deliver low-cost health coaching to people in need. He is now a visiting scholar at Harvard Medical School and host of an award-winning documentary series on Amazon Prime. He is also a bestselling author of Everyday Dharma, which is all about the timeless art of finding success and joy in what we do. Listeners can learn more about Suneel at website https://www.suneelgupta.com/ on X @suneel and on IG @suneelgupta Partners: Plunge: Get $150 off the ultimate cold plunge ice bath Copilot: Free 2 months on my favorite personal finance app with code KEVINROSE The Tim Ferriss Show: Huge discount + 4 months free on the my favorite VPN DeleteMe: 20% off removing your personal info from the web Mentions: Everyday Dharma Book: https://www.suneelgupta.com/ The ultimate cold plunge ice bath. Get $150 off at kevinrose.com/plunge Get two months of CoPilot FREE - kevinrose.com/copilot Show Notes: (0:00) Introduction (1:00) The ultimate cold plunge ice bath. Get $150 off at kevinrose.com/plunge (2:30) Get two months of CoPilot FREE - kevinrose.com/copilot (4:30) Shout out to Kevin for being one of the first to take a bet on RISE (5:30) What Rise is all about (11:55) “Authenticity has become everything. It’s no longer a factor, it’s a filter.” (15:30) Obama's 2004 keynote speech (23:30) Shout out to the one and only Tim Ferris - https://tim.blog (25:00) DeleteMe: 20% off removing your personal info from the web (27:10) Suneel Gupta’s viral failure story (29:10) “Long term success can often come from short term embarrassment.” (32:30) Suneel’s personal story on ‘how to win and how to lost’ (36:20) “I don’t lose. I either win or I learn.” (38:30) The arrival fallacy (43:30) The philosophy of dharma (50:00) Definition and origin of dharma (51:20) “As it turns out, when I go out and I unpack the Dharma stories, the people who really were able to find their way back to the center, it wasn't competence that got them there. It was curiosity.” (1:02:00) The concept of rhythmic renewal (1:05:00) The 55-5 rule for work efficiency in productivity (1:27:00) Question: When you think about these trail heads that lead back to everyday dharma, what's a diversified person look like? (1:30:00) The concept of seva: selfless service (1:36:00) Closing thoughts Connect with Kevin: Website: https://www.kevinrose.com/ Instagram - @KevinRose X - @KevinRose YouTube - @KevinRose

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0:00.0	You talk about failure success, failure success, and yet somehow there was a moment where you still weren't quite fulfilled.
0:07.6	Yeah, so at a certain level, you are kind of as good as everybody else.
0:11.6	So it's all about like mindset, it's about outlook,
0:14.2	it's about all these other things,
0:15.2	and a lot of it has to do with what is happening with you
0:18.4	when you're not in play.
0:20.0	There's this great study, I'll share it with you, what was happening to people throughout a typical work day when they were kind of going back to back to back to back.
0:27.0	Like their image was like red. It was like highly stressed, right?
0:30.0	The people who were just taking little breaks, like five to ten minute breaks throughout the day,
0:33.8	they were still in the blue. And the reason that this was like shocking to me isn't just because
0:38.0	like it was a pretty image to look at, it was more like...
0:40.5	You're someone that has had multiple startups. You know, what is it that enables you to get out of bed in the morning after you fail?
0:47.0	Trivio of the day, what does MMA fighter Connor McGregor, Tony Hawk, and I have all in common. We are
0:55.3	professional athletes at the top of our game. That is not true for me. The only
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1:16.0	I have more sustained energy throughout the day, I cut down my coffee intake now, I do a single cup of coffee in the morning,
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