"The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself."Indian Author, Speaker, Medical Doctor
1947 -
Commentary
The life we live is a work of art and we must continuously be creating and recreating it. The choices we make in life determine the person we become. And the person we become is reflected in the life we live.
Are you living the life you want to live? Have you become the person you dreamed of becoming. To create your life you want requires vision, hard work and persistence. If you think painting a picture or writing a novel is a challenge, creating your life is a bigger challenge.
Sometimes creative leaders become so caught up in their creative work that they lose sight of themselves and the person who they wanted to become. They lose sight of the people they love. We must learn to take care of ourselves — our physical, mental and emotional natures. If we let our work devour us, we can become addicted to drugs, alcohol or sex. We can become paranoid, fearful and anxious. We must learn to love ourselves and those nearest to us.
Biography
Deepak Chopra was born in New Delhi, India to Krishan Lai Chopra and Pushpa Chopra. His name, Deepak, means lamp. His father was a cardiologist and a department manager at a hospital for over 25 years. His father and grandfather both served in the British army.
Deepak graduated from medical school in India in 1969 and began his career practicing medicine in rural India. Early in his career, Chopra became interested in finding the biological basis for the influence of thoughts and emotions over the lives of humans.
Chopra married his wife in 1970 and moved to the United States to take up a clinical internship in Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1973, he earned his license to practice medicine in Massachusetts. He taught at the medical schools of Tufts University, Boston University and Harvard University.
While traveling back home to India in 1981, Chopra began practicing transcendental meditation to help himself stop smoking and drinking black coffee.
Deepak Chopra has written more than 75 books and 21 of them have been New York Times bestsellers. His books have been translated in to 35 languages.
Video
Here is Deepak Chopra talking about reinventing the body.
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