Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day Hardcover – Illustrated, September 8, 2020

Jay Shetty offered valuable lessons in life we all can learn from. Humility is a must to fully absorb its contents.Please don't be discouraged by the negative reviews stating plagiarizing quotes. Some critics are just mean spirited haters and downright nasty resorting to name calling and obviously jealous of his success and massive accomplishment in such a young age. I can appreciate fair and constructive criticism but just for the sake of being nasty doesn't have a place in a well written and important work and puts the critics legitimacy in question.Shetty's message obviously isn't mainly about those quotes. Obviously, we all learn from people before us. It's about making wisdom relevant by infusing everyday moments with meaning and grace and makes it accessible to all. He shows you step by step how to build your power, shifting your focus from self-image to self-esteem. It liberates you from the hypnosis of social conditioning and helps you become an effective master of your own life. This book will open your mind, lift your heart, redefine success, and connect your deeper purpose. He guides us with warmth and clarity on a path to greater and genuine happiness. He is loaded with wisdom and his eagerness to share it with clarity, sincerity and warmth is really admirable. Indeed, he's a quality human being with great wisdom and one can't help but become inspired and hopeful for the future.

Really appreciated Jay Shetty’s Think Like a Monk book. It is organized into 3 big sections Let Go, Grow, and Give. I wasn’t expecting the book to follow a certain formula but it worked really well with all the research that was done, ancient teachings, and personal anecdotes from Jay’s experiences was really special along with his bits of humor here and there that made me laugh out loud a few times. It’s packed with so much info. I aimed to read every day at least a chapter but for some I needed more time to sit with it due to the issues it brought up for me personally. I don’t go to therapy so books and reflections is what I’m working with in my own spiritual development to lead a more positive and fulfilling life. It would’ve taken me much longer to read the book if I had practiced the meditations several times for consistency and did Jay’s exercises from his time at the ashram, and was distracted by life’s emotions and worries. You don’t need to have a background in spiritual knowledge to enjoy Shay’s messages but it was nice to make connections if you do have some, or to even know something deeper. I also had read the Bhagavad Gita translated by Eknath Easwaran not knowing that I would be reading Jay’s book soon afterwards. So that was nice timing. If you have an interest in energy healing and visualizations, you can add what you know to the exercises in this book. Anyway, enjoy, and thanks for reading.

I love this Book. (Guide) This is purpose driven. If you need to change or reset not just your mindset but your life, this is for you. Meditation and Purpose broken down in the simplest form. Be Encouraged

As leadership and life coaching books have proliferated over the years, I have read many of them, but have stopped reading most of them for two primary reasons: 1) many don’t cover much new ground, or they take a narrow angle from someone else’s original idea and beat it to death for 250 pages when a 5-page article would have sufficed, and 2) many aren’t very good at helping you put their ideas into practice. In Think Like a Monk, Jay Shetty cannot claim to be raising new ideas, as its ideas are based on a millennia-old spiritual faith system. Using precepts from Eastern spiritual systems in a leadership context is not new either: I read the Tao of Leadership years ago (skipped the Tao of Pooh though) and Brene Brown has successfully recommended thoughtful and vulnerable approaches in her leadership books. But Shetty takes on Buddhism and improving ones’ life are fresh in their enthusiasm and succinctness (Brown’s books can be lengthy and emotionally wringing); plus he provides guided meditations/tests that allow one to easily apply these precepts, if one chooses to do so. Anyone who has studied Buddhism in even a basic fashion will recognize much of this material, but Shetty’s life experiences (he’s lived both in an ashram and in the real business world) gives him a unique perspective and the authority to share how to apply these ancient and great ideas most effectively in our modern world. Think Like a Monk is not just one of the best leadership/life books I’ve read recently, but also one of the best books about Buddhism.

Loved this book so much, already read it twice. Gives you insight on mastering your mind and a new perspective on experiencing and taking on challenges in your life.

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