Dan Hesse

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The Mentors Radio Show · 463. Learn to Live Your Values and Say No, with Dr. Sunita Sah and Host Dan Hesse · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

But some of the other analyses are lacking and we need to do more there.

So let's start by you telling our listeners a little bit about your youth.

And what was interesting is how we are programmed from our earliest years to always please and behave and obey and say yes.

Absolutely.

I mean, I basically grew up in what I call a masterclass of compliance.

And I remember asking my dad when I was quite young, what does my name Sunita mean?

And he said, in Sanskrit, Sunita means good.

And I mostly lived up to that because what does good actually mean?

It means to be polite, to be nice, to do as you're told, to do what other people expect you to do.

And that's what I did.

I did all my homework as expected, went to school on time.

I think I even got my hair cut the way my parents wanted me to.

I was the obedient daughter and student.

And

Many of us receive these messages, not just from parents, but also from teachers and the community, and we start equating compliance with being good and defiance with being bad.

And when I started to delve into this,

a little bit more into the research and what was happening and what I was observing, I started to wonder, is it sometimes bad to be so good?

And what do we actually sacrifice by disregarding our values?

Because such compliance can lead to huge problems.

So even if we just look at health care, one survey found that nine out of ten

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