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The Buddha and the Badass The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work

Vishen Lakhiani

NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, If you’re the average person in the developed world, you spend 70 percent of your waking hours at work. And if you’re the average person, you’re miserable for most of those hours. This is simply not an acceptable state of affairs for your one shot at life. No matter your...

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty

It was mentioned as Vishen Lakhiani's previous book which talked about Ken Wilber's essay on egolessness and how great spiritual teachers weren't just focused on the now, but also on the future and had visions for the world.

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My last book was called The Buddha and the Badass.

— Episode: Vishen Lakhiani ON: 6 Questions to Ask Y...

Episode: Vishen Lakhiani ON: 6 Questions to Ask Yourself to...

It was mentioned as Vishen Lakhiani's previous book which talked about Ken Wilber's essay on egolessness and how great spiritual teachers weren't just focused on the now, but also on the future and had visions for the world.

"

My last book was called The Buddha and the Badass.

Episode: Vishen Lakhiani ON: How To Live From Intuition & A...

It was said that the book was about how to bring spirituality into the workplace, merging the Buddha aspect with the badass aspect of our nature.

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But the ultimate thing is you want to be hyper productive. You learn to listen to that voice within. Listen to your soul, tap into the universe. And you now are taking deliberate, correct action to making the world better.

My new book, The Buddha and the Badass, tries to break that down into a series of patents and ideas that people can follow.

Now the question, the technique is this. It's about asking the right questions, but the questions have assumption that the outcome is clear.

So this is a technique, okay? So this technique is a technique that I write about in my book. This is actually in chapter nine of the book, Buddha and the Badass.

It's about merging the Buddha aspect of our nature with the bad-ass aspect of our nature. The Buddha is going within. The bad-ass is going out and shifting the world, but shifting the world based on the insights of the Buddha.

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