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Five Seats of Power

Discovering the Best You Can Be through the Mahabharata

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Five Seats of Power

Written by: Prateek Sharma, Raghu Ananthanarayanan
Narrated by: Prateek Sharma
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In Five Seats of Power, Raghu Ananthanarayanan uses insights from the Yoga Shastra and the Mahabharata to offer principles and practices to enable behavioural transformation. Transformation that, in turn, will ignite an individual's natural genius. He presents each of the five Pandavas - Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva - as an archetype of a particular kind of power: of order and stability, passion and action, and curiosity and knowledge, among others. Drawing on each of these archetypal energies, he explores the functional and dysfunctional aspects of the use of power. He examines how, in order to mobilize one's heroic potential, a person must celebrate their desirable qualities, while resolving the dark and compulsive energies within themselves.

The book also includes interviews with visionary business leaders, such as N.R. Narayana Murthy and S. Ramadorai, that exemplify the lessons gathered from analysing the heroes from the Mahabharata.

This is an invaluable guide to becoming the best you can be.

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Excellent characterizations of each of Panadavas propensity by Raghu Ananthanarayanan for practical application into organizational context. Reminded me of 6 thinking hats of Edward de Bono for creative problem solving. Getting into Tapas with 5 suggested questions provides a structured mechanism to transform from problem domain to solution. Insightful discussion on Draupadi, Arjuna & Karna Triad is interesting.

Reminded me of 6 thinking hats

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loved it. the exercises were most useful. valuable insights into Indian thinking. I would recommend everyone reads it.

great book!

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Very different from what I have read from mainstream models in the non fiction section

Excellent mental models

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