It’s hard to imagine MBA students attending a class in “Creativity and Personal Mastery.” But Dr. Srikumar Rao’s course, which teaches resilience – the ability to recover readily from adversity – has been taught at many of the world’s top business schools and leading companies. Happiness at Work is Dr. Rao’s insightful journey into the constructs of our thinking. When we know what actually goes on under the hood of our minds, we can improve our job and career and actually live a life of happiness and purpose.
Dr. Rao’s pioneering course has been among the most popular and highest rated at schools like Columbia, Berkeley, and London Business School, and is the only such course anywhere to have its own alumni association – a testament to the overwhelming value received by those fortunate enough to have taken it. Executives of dozens of leading companies, including Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft, Google, General Electric, American Express and IBM have attended his workshops.
Happiness at Work offers bite-size, actionable, exercise-oriented, life-changing lessons that Rao offers in his class, deceptively simple and unbelievably powerful. He teaches readers to stay in the moment and ignore the critical “chatter” we apply to life’s events and emotions. Once we’re able to stop passing judgment on ourself and others, we will be able to start crafting the life we really want. Happiness at Work identifies and pulls apart our mental models that define failure and success, quality and happiness, wealth and contentment, and enables us to see that our world is merely a construct, not the solid reality we thought it was. We can learn to deconstruct the parts of it that don’t work well for us, and build them again.
When the inevitable “bad stuff” happens, we can not only survive, but thrive. When we feel stuck, it’s just a brief journey to becoming unstuck. Short but profound, Happiness at Work might just help us dramatically alter the course of our life’s journey.
Click here to see Dr. Rao talk about plugging into our hard-wired happiness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7B_4zGHJQg.