Nobody sits us down and teaches us how to love. So we’re often thrown into relationships with nothing but romance movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until now. While the monk mind is single-task focused, looks for meaning and genuine solutions, controls and engages energy wisely, is enthusiastic, determined, and patient, seeks long term gains, and is compassionate, caring, and collaborative. Her ultimate goal? "To serve a nation through literature." 🇮🇳 With a passion for Indian literature, she's on a mission to ignite the reading spark in both kids and grown-ups alike. 🔥

Schadenfreude doesn't last long. The more we define ourselves in relation to the people around us the more lost we are.” Giving – “looking to the world beyond ourselves, expanding and sharing our sense of gratitude, and deepening our relationships.” a b c "Internet Star 'Exposes' Award-Winning Life Coach Jay Shetty for Plagiarizing Quotes". The National. 27 August 2019 . Retrieved 30 September 2020. A] refreshing look at love as a daily practice…Shetty combines spiritual wisdom and down-to-earth guidance in a surprisingly seamless way, making for lessons that have real staying power. Those looking to start or strengthen relationships will find this well worth a look." — Publisher's Weekly

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Good point – “…the only thing that stays with you from the moment you’re born until the moment you die is your breath.” That’s why controlling your breath is very important. The Vedic Personality included at the end of the book is an unexpected bonus. Further, most of the topics are very relevant to a modern individual. The author tells us the importance of the locations in building up our routines. He says that every location has its own energy. If a particular place is devoted to a particular purpose with the least amount of distractions, the probability of us doing it is more. It will be easier for us to build up a routine if we visit those places regularly rather than trying to do it alone in our house. We all procrastinate and get distracted, even monks, but if you give yourself more time, then you can afford to get distracted and then refocus. In your morning routine, having limited time means that you’re one phone call or spilled coffee away from being late to work. If you’re frustrated with learning a new skill, understanding a concept, or assembling a piece of Ikea furniture, your instinct will be to pull away, but go all in and you’ll accomplish more than you thought possible. As it turns out, periods of deep focus are also good for your brain. When we switch tasks compulsively (like the multitaskers who showed poor memory and focus in the Stanford study), it erodes our ability to focus. We overstimulate the dopamine (reward) channel. (c) Gosh, I need to write it on my wall or something!

In this insightful, myth-shattering book, Jay Shetty combines ancient wisdom and modern science to show how we can find -- in ourselves and others -- the love we all deserve.” — Lori Gottlieb We tend to wear our ability to get by on little sleep as some sort of badge of honor that validates our work ethic. But what it is a profound failure of self-respect and of priorities." This is the question which I tried to find an answer to throughout my teenage years. I opted for becoming a better human being than a better student. The author is answering a similar question in this book. This is my favorite line from this book The author mentions four types of trust to understand why we are attracted to a person. We can determine whether they are compatible with us by finding out whether their values and trust correspond with us.Location has energy; time has memory.If you do something at the same time every day, it becomes easier and natural.If you do something in the same space every day, it becomes easier and natural. (c) Nu sunt un fan al cărților de dezvoltare personală, fie ele scrise de foști călugări sau adevărați guru, ori titani, cum se intitulează o colecție de la noi, ai acestui domeniu, însă trebuie să recunosc că volumul de față nu l-aș putea încadra la categoria pierderi de timp. If you go to a networking event every day and have to tell people what you do for a living, it’s hard to step away from that reduction of who you are. If you watch Real Housewives every night, you start to think that throwing glasses of wine in your friends’ faces is routine behavior. Since listening, I now use a mantra that keeps me centered when I feel anxiety coming on. Although I may not be feeling the positive effects of all of the exercises yet, I can hear Jay telling me to keep practicing. These methods have also helped me to feel more in the present, calmer and more reflective which was a goal of mine.

In the Hitopadeśa, an ancient Indian text by Nārāyana, the mind is compared to a drunken monkey that’s been bitten by a scorpion and haunted by a ghost. (c) It probably is, in our digital age!

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Every year since I was eighteen I’d spent part of the summer interning at a finance job in London and part of the year training at the ashram in Mumbai. (c) Now, that's a clash, if ever! Right from the point where Jay Shetty is eighteen, listening to a monk speak and falling in love with his words, to the point when Jay grabs his first job and is part of an office gossip session criticizing their colleague. One professor didn’t realize that there was a fire extinguisher just inches from the office he’d occupied for twenty-five years. (c)

Social Media Star Jay Shetty On How To Think Like A Monk". Grazia magazine . Retrieved 14 September 2020. Calm Announces Former Monk Jay Shetty as Chief Purpose Officer". Athletech News. 9 February 2022 . Retrieved 27 April 2022. Ironically, this was my "break book" at the halfway point (or close) through The Brothers Karamazov. I say ironically because monks figure prominently in Bros. K, so what exactly am I escaping? Apples and oranges. Russian Orthodox Church and Hindu monks. Jay Shetty (born 6 September 1987) is a British podcaster, author, and life coach. He is also a co-founder of Sama Tea. a b c "Jay Shetty: 'I want to help people find calm in the chaos' ". Eastern Eye. 16 September 2020 . Retrieved 30 September 2020.

Jay's ability to write with such truth and wisdom when it comes to love and life is masterful. Somehow a topic that has always felt larger than I could handle now feels within reach. This book left me feeling confident and clear about how to move through Love with grace." — Shawn Mendes At the end of every chapter, there are tips or exercises to work on. That's the only helpful stuff. Meet Sankalpita, the bookworm extraordinaire! 📚 With an insatiable appetite for reading (over 100 books annually!), she embarked on her book blogging journey in 2013 to share her boundless love for books. What started as a quirky hobby has blossomed into India's top-tier book blog, bookGeeks – the reigning champion for five consecutive years! 🏆 Similarly, Jay also talks about many novel concepts like the cancers of the mind, the quadrants of potential, the circle of love, double-edged ego, chariot of the mind, etc. after reading many nonfiction books, I realized most books talk about the same stuff. ( sadly that is true with this book)