L = Look and Listen E = Emotional Bonding A = Awareness D = Doing E = Empowerment R = Responsibility S = Synchronicity

Interview by Irene Lacher, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Published on December 26, 2010.

Carlsbad-based self-help guru Deepak Chopra ponders the annual pinnacle for people immersed in self-improvement — New Year’s Day. The prolific author’s latest book, “The Soul of Leadership: Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness,” hits bookshelves Tuesday.

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Own your own feelings. Nobody else does. Accept that you don’t own the other person’s feelings. – Deepak Chopra, The Soul of Leadership.

On these two videos, Deepak Chopra speaks with brother Doctor Sanjiv Chopra about his new book “Doctor Chopra Says”

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Crises exist to test who the real leaders are. During the present crisis, as people lose confidence and anxiety grows, two leaders stand out, in the media at least: President Obama and his most vocal antagonist on the right, Sarah Palin. This might seem like a radically unequal contest. A sitting President versus a woman who served for half a term governing a state with a population smaller than any major American city? But leadership has always been considered mysterious, and one never knows. (more…)