Srikumar Rao Quotes
If something comes that it is so extreme that you have difficulty thinking of it as a good thing, don't think of it as a good thing and kid yourself. To the extent that you can, don't label it a bad thing. Refusing to label something a bad thing opens you up to possibilities you would not have even considered otherwise.
Rao, Srikumar. Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful - No Matter What. McGraw-Hill, 2010, p. 18.
Unfortunately, much modern Islamic philosophy and religion sees new knowledge and innovation of ideas as heresy per se. However, this was not at all true at the beginning of Islam. This narrow-mindedness and intolerance began to develop in 1100, hundreds of years after Mohammad. Contrast Abu Hanifa with an Islamic modern fundamentalist who claims there can be no valid new knowledge: {620307}. This jurist is more typical of most Muslim judges and legal experts, than the fundamentalists who tend to promote their believes more vigorously and get much more media coverage—including in this collection of quotations—simply because the are so violent and such a danger.
Srikumar S. Rao is a speaker, author, former business school professor and creator of Creativity and Personal Mastery (CPM), a course designed to effect personal transformation. He is a TED speaker, and has authored Are You Ready to Succeed: Unconventional Strategies for Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life, which is an international best seller, and Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated and Successful – No Matter What, a best seller on Inc.'s "The Business Book Bestseller List." He is also the creator and narrator of the audio-course The Personal Mastery Program.
