"When things start to unravel, Nayyar doesn't reach for motivational podcasts or productivity hacks. He repeats one word to himself instead: Surrender. "Sometimes, if I find myself really banging my head against something, and it's just one of those days where everything's going wrong, I just tell myself surrender," Nayyar tells Fortune. "Take a breath. Take a pause. Let's just see what happens.""
""Our minds work in such a way where on a difficult day, it keeps going to the worst-case scenario," the actor explained, adding that the reality is rarely as bad as you imagine. And even in the very worst case, you always come out the other side. "So in those moments, you have to really just look at your mind and say, stop. Take a breath. Surrender to this moment and let's see what happens.""
Kunal Nayyar rose to fame as Rajesh Koothrappali on The Big Bang Theory at 26 and earned roughly $1 million per episode at the show's peak. He has an estimated net worth of $45 million and a résumé spanning film, television, publishing, and tech. Nayyar relies on the single-word mantra "surrender" to cope when days go wrong, using it to pause, breathe, and counter his inner critic. He emphasizes that the mind defaults to worst-case scenarios and that reality is rarely as dire as imagined. He uses the mantra often during auditions and waiting periods while running ventures such as Good Karma Productions and the IQ121 app.
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