Think Like a Monk Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

His books, Think Like a Monk and Eight Rules of Love, were both bestsellers.

Your book, of course, was called Think Like a Monk.

He is not only a former monk, he is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Think Like a Monk.

I have this sucker right here. I have dog-eared it. I have post-it noted this sucker.

Jay Shetty is also the number one New York Times bestselling author of two books, Think Like a Monk and Eight Rules of Love, which have been translated into over 47 languages.

And I went to launch a book and 14 out of 17 imprints told me, don't call it Think Like a Monk because no one wants to think like a monk. Five years later, the book sold millions of copies.

If you've read Think Like a Monk or heard Think Like a Monk, you'll know this example, but it's something that's worth repeating.

When I first saw a young monk teaching other younger monks on their first day of school, when I asked him what he was teaching them, he said he was teaching them how to breathe.

This obviously blew my mind because it was a 10-year-old monk telling me this.

I said to him, why do you teach them how to breathe? Then he said, well, what did you learn at school? And I was like, I think I learned one, two, three and ABC.

And he said, well, we teach them how to breathe because the only thing that stays with you from the moment you're born to the moment you die is your breath.

And so it wasn't just the tradition I studied in. So that was very important to me because I believed that there were traditions beyond mine that would have values to share and important messages to share.

The other thing that I tried to do in the book was I definitely have always wanted to make ancient wisdom accessible, practical and relevant. That has always been my mission because I'm trying to speak to the 18-year-old kid that I was in London before I got into spirituality and meditation and mindfulness. I'm not trying to speak to the person I am now or someone who's already learned a ton. And so to me, to make it simple and accessible and relevant was my biggest goal and always has been.

This is actually in Think Like a Monk, but it fully connects to this book. There are four levels of trust.

And after answering, Think Like a Monk answers the decision of how do I feel about myself, that's what it's dedicated to.

In my first book, Think Like a Monk, I came up with this idea of the theater of happiness and how there are an unlimited number of seats in the theater of happiness.

This activity asks you what are your current values? How's the current mindset or the ways you think? Where did they come from?

Did they come from your parents, your family, your school, your teacher, society, or yourself?

And do you still want them to be your values?

If you can do that activity in the first chapter of Think Like a Monk, what are your current values? Where did they come from?

And do you still want to keep those values?

There's three things that I talk about which I learned during my time in the monastery. It's in my first book, Think Like a Monk.

And you just published your book, Think Like a Monk, right? Can you maybe share with people something about those meditations that you've shared in the book?

And the reason why it's called Think Like a Monk is because I don't think anyone needs to live like one to think like one.

The first is monks always focus on the root of the issue. They always go to the core. They always go to the root.

The second thing that monks do is that everything is very intentional. Everything is very intentional. It's focused. It's not just by chance or by luck or by hope it happens.

And the third and final part of thinking like a monk is being able, I think we need a world that is more compassionate, more empathetic, more mindful.

In my first book, Think Like a Monk, I broke down the four levels of trust.

It was the biggest reason why I chose the title. It felt like it was truth.

And every publisher was like, Jay, you should just write a book about how to find your passion or what you love in life. And I was just like, there's beauty in that. There's nothing wrong with a book about how to find your passion. That's great. But that's not me. Like, it's not my experience. It's not my book.

And I remember 14 out of 17 imprints said no to that title and we still went with it.

No, I have an exercise in Think Like a Monk where I ask people to do their time audit for the week.

It's called "Think Like a Monk", Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day.

I think most people in society are familiar with the concept that we can train our body right.

But I'm not sure that people commonly think that their mind can be trained.

And I think there's such a need there in what you're encouraging us to do as well and what the book's trying to help people do is recognize that each and every single one of us need to and can train our mind.

You don't need to live like a monk to think like a monk.

There has been a lot of research involving monks that shows how monks are really masters of the mind. I detail some of it in my book, Think Like a Monk.

Go get Jay Shetty's book, Think Like a Monk.

I met my first monk teacher at 18 years old and I started spending time with him.

As those of you who read my first book, Think Like a Monk may remember,

I read this book in two days.

He's written this new book called Think Like a Monk, Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day.

And this book moved me.

And I think let's start somewhere. There's 11 sort of points in the book that you go through.

But I think in this time, in this day and age, with all the kind of current events that are happening in the world, one of the things you talked about in there is ways to find calm in the chaos.

I remember years ago, that's when I remember connecting with you first was when like, I think you told Ryan about Think Like a Monk on one of your episodes.

I did have one for Think Like a Monk, didn't I?

Think like a monk. Yeah, yeah, no, I do it. That's really good.

I'm going to... I actually finished Think Like a...

Well, nearly finished with Think Like a Monk. I've taken a break from it. It was just so good. I need time to digest.

So this year my first ever book is coming out in April. It's my first ever book. It's called Think Like a Monk.

And so for me, of course, I want so many of you to be able to change your life and transform your life through my book.

I need to be able to make sure that you all know that it's available because guess what? The algorithm doesn't make everyone know and let everyone know that my book is available.

So I need to make sure that you all know that it exists and that it's available.

So many of our goals are really not goals, they're visions, right?

She actually asked me questions from my book, Think Like a Monk, from the Purpose chapter, and broke it down incredibly well.

And hopefully you get to learn a bit more about my journey, especially if you love the book, Think Like a Monk.

I love that. I'm totally with you on that. And that's such an important point because I think that's the difference that I think a lot of these words now have become buzzwords and they fly around.

And so the personality test that I give is to help people and I've loved. So first of all, there is no personality test or astrological chart that's going to give you the answer that you need, but they're good indicators and signals.

And so in the beginning of the book, we got the monkey mind and the monk mind. The monk mind almost laughs when it notices the monkey and goes, ah, okay, I saw you. I see you. I see you, my fear. I see ego. I see what you're trying to do there.

Somebody has decades of experience like you do, you put into a book, Think Like a Monk, and somebody sits down a few days and reads that book, they could download decades and days, but they're not reading every day.

I talk about in my book Think Like a Monk, I talk about the four Cs for the four types of people you'll meet in your life.

I say that there are unlimited seats in the theater of happiness, but we're living in a world that has made us believe there are a finite number of seats.

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Jay, your podcast has changed my life for the better. I was going through a tough time with anxiety, depression and panic attacks when I came across your book, Think Like a Monk.

One of the things I tried to do in Think Like a Monk when I wrote it was, I don't talk about any enlightened experiences. So I talked about all my worst meditation experiences.

Jay is the host of the podcast On Purpose and the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Think Like a Monk.

Hey have you read Think Like A Monk or On Purpose or have you watched this interview or whatever that they're into you may introduce them to other insights, to other voices.

So I went through a similar thing that when I wrote the title, Think Like a Monk, and that was always the title that I wanted for my first book.

Because they didn't want me to have that as the title. That's a great title!

But they said to me, they said, well, who wants to think like a monk? People don't even know what monks are. They don't know what they do.

I've been listening to Jay for about a year now and reading his book, Think Like a Monk.

I have your book and I'm reading it now. I take it with me through the day and even looking at the cover makes me stop and be a little more present.

I talk about this experience in my book Think Like a Monk when as monks we would walk down the same path every day and we were asked to find a new flower or a new stone or notice a new part in nature.

There's a beautiful verse in the Bhagavad Gita. This is the book that I reference a lot in Think Like a Monk and a book that I studied during my time as a monk.

His book is also phenomenal and I've read it twice and got something different out of it each time.

We won a lot of book awards for Think Like a Monk.

You've taught me how to think like a monk. Now I want to try to be like a monk.

I'm going to be massively in trouble for it.

When you made Think Like a Monk, a number one New York Times bestselling book.

That inspired your book, Think Like a Monk. It came out in September 2020 during this pandemic.

And I know you've talked about it so much. Hopefully we will get to talk about it and so many more other things. But it's sold out at so many copies.

I can't get enough of your podcast, Jay. I'm also currently reading Think Like a Monk and between the two I'm getting more insight into who I am and the world around me.

I even got my mother to download your book on Audible and she used the words life-changing to describe it.

In my book, Think Like a Monk, I break down what I call the stages of trust.

Trust is earned. Once you've established reasonable expectations from a relationship, then it is easier to build and maintain trust.

Trust means we believe that the person is being honest with us, that they have our interests at heart, that they will uphold their promises and confidences and that they will stay true to these intentions in the future.

Trust is about intentions, not abilities.

Someone suggested I read Think Like A Monk about a year ago and I've been hanging on every word Jay Shetty has said ever since.

I literally dog-eared it. I highlighted it.

And on page seven, there is a story that you tell that is a beautiful metaphor that illustrates the external influences that obscure our true selves.

You know what story I'm talking about? I do. I believe it's, is it dust or is it me?

Is that about the mirror and the dust? Yes. Yes. And so the story is all about this metaphor of up in this attic of the ashram, there's a mirror with a thick layer of dust.

And when you look at a mirror that's accumulated, a thick layer of dust, you can't truly see yourself, your soul, your spirit. And the dust comes from your life. It's not you.

Authors of books that have changed my life.

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Think Like a Monk released last year, exactly one year ago today.

It's a book that I spent years living, two years writing and putting it together.

And right now I'm sitting here and I'm surrounded by the book, which has been translated into over 50 languages, which is absolutely phenomenal.

Hey, everyone, thank you so much for all your love that you've given to Think Like a Monk and the process of putting this together.

For those of you who haven't heard the audio book of Think Like a Monk or read the book, you can go to thinklikeamonkbook.com and listen in to learn more about these 12 lessons. A lot of them are inside the book as well.

I recently just bought his book Think Like A Monk and I highly recommend that as well.

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And so today I'm embracing all parts of myself and we find all the time that people don't let us embrace all parts of ourselves.

They make us question whether we want to embrace that part of ourself.

That's why I wrote a book called Think Like a Monk because you can still upgrade your mind and your life can change.

I titled my first book Think Like a Monk because I believe the monk mindset is a valuable one for finding peace and purpose.

I really hope that this podcast has helped you today and if it has, I think you'll really enjoy my book, Think Like a Monk, available on both the audiobook and the physical book, The Hardback Cover, because fear is what I talk about in chapter three.

Dive into Think Like a Monk and you'll get a pathway from fear to moving forward.

When I started making videos, I had no idea that I would one day make a podcast. I would write my own book called Think Like a Monk.

And I love your story in Think Like a Monk about giving your first presentation to an empty room on a college campus and just nobody showed up and you still gave the presentation.

I started this podcast alongside Jay's book, Think Like a Monk.

In Think Like a Monk, I described a study where people would rather give themselves an electric shock than be alone without distraction for just a few minutes.

I've talked several times before and written in my book, Think Like a Monk about how to do this.

When I set out to write Think Like a Monk, I was focused on the process.

I actually had the idea for the title Think Like a Monk in the book back in 2016, and I was offered a book deal in 2016.

And I chose not to do it because it didn't feel like the right time to tell the story, and it didn't feel like the right time to feel like I knew what I wanted to share and give and express.

So I actually didn't sign a book deal until 2018. And I didn't finish writing the book until 2019, and the book came out in 2020.

So there was a four year gap from the time I thought of the title and was offered a book deal to the point that I actually published a book because I was focused on the process.

When I set out to write, Think Like a Monk, I was focused on the process. I wanted to write for you the best possible book I could write in the time that I had.

I actually had the idea for the title, Think Like a Monk and the book back in 2016 and I was offered a book deal in 2016 and I chose not to do it because it didn't feel like the right time to tell the story and it didn't feel like the right time to feel like I knew what I wanted to share and give and express.

So I actually didn't sign a book deal until 2018 and I didn't finish writing the book until 2019 and the book came out in 2020.

So there was a four year gap from the time I thought of the title and was offered a book deal to the point that I actually published a book because I was focused on the process.

I couldn't write a bestselling book if I was thinking about it being a bestselling book.

When I set out to write Think Like a Monk, I was focused on the process.

I actually had the idea for the title Think Like a Monk in the book back in 2016.

Now, I write a lot about focus in my book, Think Like a Monk, because it's one of my favorite monk skills and it's one of the most powerful skills you can develop.

I had the pleasure of going on the podcast last year where we talked about my book Think Like a Monk, and I've been looking forward to interviewing and reciprocating with Danica's love through this podcast.

In my book, Think Like a Monk, I describe a classic study by Solomon Ash in which participants looked at a series of lines and were meant to indicate which two lines matched.

In Think Like a Monk, I write a lot about the importance of being connected to our values, of being really clear about what motivates us, what we truly care about and why.

And that's a pivotal moment, you know, coming out of high school and all my friends went to college. I didn't go, you know, I ended up meeting Kanye West, right? Rapping for him.

I'm also reading your book, Think Like a Monk.

I'm going to give you an exercise that will seem simple but can be challenging when you actually do it.

In the book, I wrote about an experience when I was a monk of diving to my deepest fears by again and again asking myself what am I afraid of?

For this exercise, I want you to ask yourself what can I release?

Today, we're continuing with the theme of looking at one chapter each week from my book, Think Like a Monk, and going in deeper.

Here's a short passage from the chapter that's my inspiration for today's podcast. In the ashram, we started each morning in the spirit of the day we plan to have, and we trained ourselves to sustain that deliberateness and focus all day long.

If you've been listening regularly, and I hope you have, and I so appreciate your time and your willingness to be here and share this space with me. But if you've been with me the last few Fridays, you know that we've been taking ideas and thoughts from my book, Think Like a Monk, and going deeper.

Today, we're focusing on chapter seven, which is all about the mind.

And my inspiration for today's podcast comes from the following passage from the book.

And the best way I know you can do this is by grabbing a copy of Think Like a Monk, my first ever book.

This book will guide you through all of the skills and techniques needed to actually discover yourself, focus on your purpose and build incredible relationships in your life.

If you want to grab a copy or a copy for a friend because you already have one, head over to thinklikeamonkbook.com.

Hundreds of thousands of you around the world supported Think Like a Monk, my first ever book. And it's been incredible.

You made it a number one New York Times bestseller. It was named unputdownable by Amazon because of each and every single one of you.

But I know that there's many of you that still haven't got it. And some of you have been thinking about gifting it to your friends.

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There's an old Taoist parable I share in my book, Think Like a Monk about a farmer whose horse runs away.

You can only keep up the myth of your own importance for so long. If you don't break your ego, life will break it for you.

Jay, I think maybe this isn't the right place for you anymore.

How can someone fail at being a monk? What am I going to do now? What will people say? What will people think? How will I respond to this?

I talk in the book about the humility and humiliation.

I dive deeply into the ego in my book, but I want you to share what you've learned on Instagram.

And I think, oh, here we go. We've got something in common. We're trying to challenge people to think differently.

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I really feel that everything that I'm sharing in this book is not to make people more passive. No. Being peaceful is not being passive. Being purposeful is not being passive. Being compassionate is not being passive. None of this is to make people more passive.

I think that we as a nation are in such a state of trauma and fear and anxiety, a fight or flight constantly. There's something that is helpful, peaceful healing about what you've written that is helping people in this moment. So thank you.

And I think that there's something in that love and purpose and meaning is so much more intertwined. Anyway, I think what your team's doing is phenomenal. And I'm totally with you. I really feel that everything that I'm sharing this book is not to make people more passive. No.

It's to make me people more active with a deeper intention. That's the goal.

Go pick up this book. Keep it by, this could be the thing you keep by your bedside. I think it's helpful in the peace part. It's helpful in the purpose part. It's beautiful, Jay. You did such a beautiful job.

Absolutely. It's been in the process of the idea first came to me probably around four years ago, and I started writing the book and preparing for it around nearly two years ago now.

And it's been an incredibly amazing week. Like this is week one. The book came out last Tuesday.

And so you're speaking to me literally seven days after that. And I'm just feeling really humbled and grateful at the response. It's been amazing.

I'm glad that it's finally in people's hands because I wrote it, finished writing at end of last year. And so I've been really excited to hear feedback and read reviews.

In the beginning, it was really challenging. I found it really hard. Like you said, I'm so used to speaking and I always thought that, oh, you could just speak and then write and then it would look the same and sound the same and people would digest it the same. And then I started realizing that that wasn't the case.

And I can't wait to share this time with you today. Now, before we get going, I wanted to share with you a letter that I wrote to 2020.

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And I'm very excited to be speaking with you about it.

It's something you've been working towards for a long while. How are you feeling, mate?

It's been an incredibly amazing week. Like this is week one. The book came out last Tuesday. And so you're speaking to me literally seven days after that. And I'm just feeling really humbled and grateful at the response. It's been amazing.

Train your mind for peace and purpose everyday. Grab a copy of Think Like A Monk, or listen to the audiobook now!

Train your mind for peace and purpose everyday. Grab a copy of Think Like A Monk, or listen to the audiobook now!

And if you've grabbed a book and you're already reading it and you've posted it, thank you so much. The reviews have been amazing.

And if you're reading it right now, I'd really appreciate you leaving a review. We've already got thousands of reviews across the world, and I'm just loving reading them and sharing them.

So you may have opinions that impact your choices. You may have expectations that are put on you that impact your choices. And you may even feel like a sense of obligation towards family, friends, school, teachers, professors, whatever it may be. I definitely felt those too.

I talk about a concept in the Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita called Dharma, and Dharma can be translated into many things. But one of its translations in English is eternal purpose or your inherent nature, which can be perfectly described between the synergy between your passion, your strengths and your compassion.

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And if you're reading it right now, I'd really appreciate you leaving a review.

In chapter five, I talk about a concept in the Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita called Dharma and Dharma can be translated into many things, but one of its translations in English is eternal purpose or your inherent nature,

And there's a beautiful verse in the Manusmriti which says, when you protect your purpose, your purpose protects you.

So tell us a little bit about the book. You mentioned some of the chapters that are in it, but what do we have to look forward to?

And if you haven't yet, you can still go and grab a copy at thinklikeamonkbook.com.

And if you're reading it right now, I'd really appreciate you leaving a review.

You've really, really, truly helped. So thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping with that.

So the book is a interweaving of personal stories, scientific studies, courtesy of Laurie and many other amazing friends who are able to share with me studies on monks, brains, meditation, gratitude, all the principles in the book.

And that's really what I place a lot of emphasis is it's not an autobiography. It has biographical elements. The book is really a guide and how to life book as to how you can practice the monk mindset in the real world.

Train your mind for peace and purpose everyday. Grab a copy of Think Like A Monk, or listen to the audiobook now!

Train your mind for peace and purpose everyday. Grab a copy of Think Like A Monk, or listen to the audiobook now!

What I'm going to be sharing with you is Chapter 1 of the audiobook for my book, Think Like a Monk.

And if you love it, you can go and grab yourself a copy at thinklikeamonkbook.com. It's on Apple Books, Audible, Audible, and thinklikeamonkbook.com.

It's one of my favorite chapters in the book, and I can't wait to share it with you.

First of all, I just want to say a huge thank you to each and every single one of you who've bought my book, left a review, shared it with your friends.

And if you don't have it already, please, please, please go and grab your copy at thinklikeamonkbook.com where you can get Audible, Kindle, and more.

And if you're not already subscribed to Think Like a Monk, you can go to thinklikeamonkbook.com where you can get Audible, Kindle, and I read through the Audible myself. It's over 20 hours.

I put so much love and energy into it.

Today, you're getting exclusive access to the audio book introduction of my brand new book, Think Like a Monk.

Now, if you're now feeling like you're missing out because you don't have it yet, you can go over to thinklikeamonkbook.com and order it right now.

And if you've already been reading it or read the book, please, please, please go and leave a review because I can't wait to see what you think about it.

Now in the world and in this book, I share my takeaways from the life I've lived and what I've learned.

This book is completely non-sectarian. It's not some sneaky conversion strategy, I swear.

And the reason why I called it that is because I believe that you don't have to necessarily live like a monk to think like one.

If you know, you know what I'm talking about. If you don't know where have you been?

my first ever book, without a doubt, the most exciting launch of my life, Think Like A Monk, Train Your Mind For Peace and Purpose Every Day comes out in just a few days on September 8th.

in line with the release of Think Like a Monk, I'm going to take you on a journey into the world of monks and show you how your life can change if you learn to think like a monk.

And remember this, you don't have to live like a monk to think like a monk.

I'll be touching on principles and ideas from Think Like a Monk, my book, but I'm not going to spoil the book for you.

I think your book, Things Like a Monk, is seriously just like an amazing...

I want to keep going through it because it's just like every two pages has an example, a model, a framework where you can apply it to your life.

So I think that's the modern version of probably like 10 to 20 books of the past in the personal growth space and in this kind of mindset space that I think is going to be the standard for the next 10 years.

And already pre-ordered not one, but two Think Like a Monk books, one for me and another one for my lady.

And in my book, Think Like a Monk, I talk a lot about question meditations and I talk about how a lot of the questions we ask the universe are not questions, they're demands.

Because I was just like, what if you could think like a monk and live like a king or a queen? Right. What if you could think like a monk?

which I talk about in my upcoming book, Think Like a Monk, which actually help you figure out your dharma type and your personality from a dharma point of view.

My book was meant to launch on April 14th.

My book got pushed back to September 8th because the publishers didn't believe that it would actually get to everyone during this time.

And there was so much of me that was saying, oh, I should have launched it last year. I wish I launched in 2021.

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I think that's good. That's really good to hear. And I like how much synergy there is in the AOK Foundation and the work that I'm trying to do, because my book that comes out in September, it's called Think Like a Monk.

So I've got every lesson that I learned as a monk, but I found all the modern science that backs up the statements.

If you haven't pre-ordered it, please, please, please make sure you go and pre-order it right now from thinklikeamongbook.com. It's also available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble internationally. Can't wait for you to read it.

I've been reading a ton more again, I've been diving back into books since I finished writing my book.

I'm so proud of the book that I was able to write and I can't wait for you to read it.

In my book, Think Like a Monk, I talk about the three types of meditation that I do, breath work, visualization and mantra.

In my book, Think Like a Monk, I talk about the three types of meditation that I do, breath work, visualization, and mantra.

I should hope that everyone who's listening to us has read your book. That feels important.

It's not out yet, so...

Yeah, my book's got a lot of what we're talking about right now of just helping people really, you know, it's called 'Think Like a Monk'.

And that's because, I mean, monks first of all have the happiest brains data driven wise on the planet.

And I just really want more people to have their own peace and stillness and purpose so that they can affect greater change in the world.

I should hope that everyone who's listening to us has read your book. That feels important.

It's not out yet, so...

So then I hope that everyone who's listening to this has pre-ordered your book, Hello. It's very important.

Yeah, my book's got a lot of what we're talking about right now of just helping people really, you know, it's called Think Like a Monk and that's because, I mean, monks first of all have the happiest brains data driven wise on the planet.

And now this year I would deeply love and appreciate your support with my first ever book. The book is called Think Like a Monk, train your mind for peace and purpose every day.

If you enjoyed today's session, if today's session has had an impact on you, if my podcasts have had an impact on you, if they have helped you, I promise you my book, Think Like a Monk, will take you to another level. It will take you to the next level.

It genuinely will make such a difference in your life. I will really appreciate it. I've put so much hard work into this book. So much of my life's work is in this book.

It's my first ever book and your support would mean the absolute world to me, honestly.

I'm sharing it with you with so much love and affection because it's almost like I know that it's going to help you.

This is truly my offering, my service, a gift that I really hope that you're going to get to read and listen to because there'll be an audio book as well.

The book is called Think Like a Monk, obviously. And it's a book which will share with you the insights to train your mind for peace and purpose every day.

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So this year, my first ever book is coming out in April. It's my first ever book. It's called Think Like a Monk. It's available for pre-order right now.

And so for me, of course, I want so many of you to be able to change your life and transform your life through my book.

But the growth I need to be able to do that is to be able to help you understand why this book is relevant in your life.

I need to be able to make sure that you all know that it's available.

2020 for me is year of think like a monk, year of the book, right? This is my focus. This is my priority.

If you wanted to master the mind, who do you go to? Monks.

The book is called Think Like a Monk, Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day.

The response has been absolutely phenomenal. And I want to thank each and every one of you who've already pre-ordered for all of that love online.

It's better to do your own duty, even if imperfectly, than to do someone else's duty perfectly.

It's not just a theoretical and philosophical book. I really try and take these lessons that I've learned from incredible teachers and make them super easy to understand and follow.

I'm so thankful that you're tuning in for a very special episode. Today's guest is someone that I've written about in my book, Think Like a Monk.

I was so happy to hear that you'd actually already read the part in the book where I mentioned you, which truly, your story, your mindset has been fascinating to me for years. That book came out in 2020.

No, I came up with a system when I wrote Think Like a Monk to make it easier because I struggled with that so much.

I'm your host Jay Shetty, author of New York Times bestselling books, Think Like a Monk, and Eight Rules of Love. If you haven't read either, I hope you take a moment to go and grab your copy.

And so I remember the first two autobiographies I read by my own choice were David Beckham's autobiography...I remember reading the autobiography of Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

And I talk a lot about him in Think Like a Monk.

I'm not perfect and I make mistakes all the time. And that's why I wrote the book called Think Like a Monk, Not Live Like a Monk, because I don't live like a monk anymore.

And you've talked about Thinking Like a Monk, your New York Times bestselling book.

He writes his book it's pretty unoriginal

His book was bad.

It's just like his second book, how many books is that?

He writes about how to improve your relationships, no one ever bothered to ask why a monk who took a vow of celibacy would be an authority on relationships.

So little of what was in the book pertained to his experience as a monk. I was like, well if that's his origin story, if that's his basis for his authority, where is it? Why isn't it in the book? It's all just pop-psychology and that's just taken from all these other sources and put in the book.

He was a monk and he wrote a book, Think Like A Monk.

And he's a really good looking Indian man with piercing light blue eyes.

He's written numerous books.

I've read the book.

He wasn't giving Tony Robbins credit for it.

think like the monks launch, which is a great book.

think like a monk has been a bestseller.

You can check out think like a monk

For me it's the difference though, monk see as the monk mind and the monkey mind. So the monkey mind is considered to the part of our minds that is like jumping from branch to branch and just being distracted by different fruits on every tree. Whereas the monk mind is focused intentional and aware at all times.

I'm not expecting anyone to read the book and then give up all their possessions and live with nothing but I'm actually saying that this mindset has actually allowed me to be more grateful for what I do have. It's allowed me to be a better user of what I do have. Sure. And and a better advocate for it.