On Purpose with Jay Shetty

She was reading it and she was saying she really liked the reframing of loneliness to solitude and she's been exploring what solitude means for her and I was saying that this is what we need to do.

I was talking to a friend the other day about my book, Eight Rules of Love.

When I was on my book tour for Eight Rules of Love, I had the opportunity to travel to cities all around the world and one thing that I made sure to do in each place was to take time to go for a walk, taking in the energy of the city, seeing the differences in architecture and connecting with the local communities.

When I was on my book tour for Eight Rules of Love, I had the opportunity to travel to cities all around the world and one thing that I made sure to do in each place was to take time to go for a walk, taking in the energy of the city, seeing the differences in architecture and connecting with the local communities.

When my book came out this year, Eight Rules of Love, I went from... I did press in New York for over three days. It was stacked from literally 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. We did everything from Good Morning America to CBS through to... What else did we do? We did the Colbert show in the evenings. We did a ton of podcasts. Like there was so much stuff.

But there are other episodes on that and 8 Rules of Love dives deeply into that in chapter one.

I was saying to that when I was writing my book, Eight Rules of Love, it was like the journey I went on through writing it got me to that point of recognizing that yes, the goal of every relationship in my life is simply to teach me something I have been unwilling to learn.

The best place right now is eight rules of love.com. That is the place to find my new book, Eight Rules of Love, which will guide you through everything from finding love, keeping love, dealing with heartbreak, and then finding love again.

I recently went on tour for my second book, Eight Rules of Love, and brought so many people together from all over the world.

And of course in my book, Eight Rules of Love, I talk about how you can build that into solitude, but we all want to be with someone.

So our guest today is Jay Shetty. He is the number one New York Times bestselling author of the books Think Like a Monk and his newest one, which we'll discuss today, Eight Rules of Love.

And I also love that your eyes match your shirt. It looks really good. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. Did you know only 2% of people in the world have green eyes? I did not know that. Is that true? Are you joking? I genuinely did not know that.

But before we dive into the book, which we have here, if you're watching the video, this is right here. It's an awesome book and I've been loving it.

In your book, Eight Rules of Love, there's two of the rules. One of them, you discuss service, what you can do for others. And the other one, you discuss unconditional love, which we're going to dive into because for me, it's hard to see how unconditional love is possible.

I think I would say overall, I think we've touched on some really beautiful points in the book. The biggest thing I'd say is the book's about every stage of love, how to find it, how to keep it and how to let it go.

It is so everything that you have just spoken about. It makes wisdom so accessible and relevant.

I wish that I'd read this in my twenties. It would have saved me a lot of trouble.

And you're married. Yes.

Which I kind of love because there's a lot of like dating, you know, people out there and they've like never had a relationship before.

But I like that your book is not only like your teachings and your research over the years, but you also say a little bit more about yourself.

What I love about this book, and I think you might have said it on Call Her Daddy. My girl Alex, we love.

Is you were like, there's so much stuff that are not taught to us in school.

My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out and I cannot wait to share it with you.

I read the audio book. If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up, or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

I'm really excited to talk to you about it. That's Eight Rules of Love.

I love like a book that you can also take action with, which is so incredible.

I think that a lot of these days across the calendar are invented as great ways to present love and perform love.

I think that when you look at movies, we all know that they show you everything up until people move in together.

That's why your book is gonna be so incredible for so many people.

You can order my new book 8 Rules of Love at 8rulesoflove.com or at a retail store near you.

I was just reading about the new book, Jay, you gotta tell me more about the book on this love.

You can order my new book 8 Rules of Love at 8rulesoflove.com or at a retail store near you.

You can order my new book 8 Rules of Love at 8rulesoflove.com or at a retail store near you.

And to reciprocate with you, today I'm giving you the third chapter of my audiobook, the third rule of my new book, Eight Rules of Love, absolutely free.

So today's episode is called Define Love Before You Think It, Feel It, or Say It. And inside this book and this audiobook chapter, I'm going to teach you how to come up with your own definition of love.

for those of you that don't already have the book, even though so many of you do already, head over to eightrulesoflove.com, order the audiobook, order the hard copy if you want to hear it in my voice.

Rule three, define love before you think it, feel it or say it.

if you don't already have the hard copy of my book or the audiobook head over right now to 8rulesoflove.com

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If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep or let go of love.

My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out.

And I cannot wait to share it with you. I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book. I read the audio book.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up, or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out, and I cannot wait to share it with you.

make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

You can order my new book 8 Rules of Love at 8rulesoflove.com or at a retail store near you.

My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out. And I cannot wait to share it with you. I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book. I read the audio book.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

Now today's episode is a special special episode because I'm giving you chapter two, rule two of my new book, Eight Rules of Love, absolutely free.

You're going to hear the audio version right now for free and I want you to go and grab a copy of the audiobook if you don't already have it from eightrulesoflove.com.

If you enjoy today, you're going to love the rest of the book. It's dedicated to helping you find love, keep love and let it go.

And today's chapter and rule is called Don't Ignore Your Karma.

Again, it's a special episode. You're getting Rule 2, Chapter 2 of my new book absolutely free. And if you enjoy it, go and grab a copy of the full audiobook in my voice at eightrulesoflove.com.

My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out and I cannot wait to share it with you.

I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep or let go of love.

So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

You can order my new book 8 Rules of Love at 8rulesoflove.com or at a retail store near you.

My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out and I cannot wait to share it with you.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

My new book, Eight Rules of Love is out. And I cannot wait to share it with you.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep or let go of love.

My new book, Eight Rules of Love is out and I cannot wait to share it with you. I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book. I read the audio book.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep or let go of love. So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

And I'd love to invite you to come and see me for my global tour, Love Rules. Go to jscheddytour.com to learn more information about tickets, VIP experiences and more. I can't wait to see you this year.

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I hope you enjoy it. And I hope you'll listen and learn from the rest of the book.

And I'd love to invite you to come and see me for my global tour, Love Rules.

I hope you enjoy it. And I hope you'll go and grab a copy of the audio book from 8RulesofLove.com.

And of course, if you enjoy it, if you love it, head over to 8RulesOfLove.com and you can buy the audiobook right now and listen to the rest of the book.

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If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eight rules of love dot com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep or let go of love.

I can't believe it. My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out, and I cannot wait to share it with you.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

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If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep or let go of love. So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

And I'd love to invite you to come and see me for my global tour, Love Rules. Go to jscheddytour.com to learn more information about tickets, VIP experiences and more. I can't wait to see you this year.

My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out and I cannot wait to share it with you.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

So in my book, Eight Rules of Love, I talk about how we play different roles in relationships.

I have a chapter in this book called Your Partner is Your Guru.

And so what I'm sharing in the book is there is no story of a perfect love that we have.

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And thank you, thank you, thank you so much for all the support for Eight Rules of Love. It has been an incredible launch week.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep or let go of love.

So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

So thank you for being here again. If you haven't already, I hope you're going to order my new book, Eight Rules of Love. This book is going to help guide you into how to find love, keep love and let it go in a healthy way.

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And I'd love to invite you to come and see me for my global tour, Love Rules.

I hope that so many of you will listen to this, be inspired, and then go and grab the audiobook from 8rulesoflove.com.

I'm giving you the first introduction of the book totally free on the show because I love our On Purpose community.

And of course, if you want to support, head over to 8rulesoflove.com and order the audiobook and listen to the rest.

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I would love for you to order it right now because if you pre-order it before the 31st of January, you get my eight cliches of love workshop absolutely free.

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It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep or let go of love.

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It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up, or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

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This book has so many tools, so many frameworks, meditations, reflections that are going to support you in your journey towards loving yourself, loving others, and then loving the world too.

If you haven't already, please preorder it at eightrulesoflove.com.

It's a lot of new content, new ideas, new thoughts formulated through my coaching work, formulated by working with clients, formulated by ancient wisdom and modern science being paired up.

And in the book, I create something called the three date rule.

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So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

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If you haven't ordered it already, you can grab it at eightrulesoflove.com and I'll be coming on tour as well.

So if you pre-order it, you'll get access to my tour dates as soon as they're announced.

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And I'd love to invite you to come and see me for my global tour, Love Rules.

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So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

I am so excited about this podcast, The Bright Side. You guys are giving people a chance to shine a light on their lives, shine a light on a little advice that they want to share.

I am super pumped and I couldn't be more enthusiastic right now. I'm feeling so energized because for the first time ever, I get to announce on my podcast that my new book, my second book, is ready for pre-order. It's called The Eight Rules of Love.

I cannot wait for you to read this book. I have spent the last two years pouring my heart out into the process of creating this book. Everything from learning from my clients, sitting down and researching cultures, looking at ancient wisdom, studying the modern science on dating, relationships, love, breakups, and then trying my best to synthesize, simplify, connect the dots so that you can find guidance on your path.

And when you pre-order today, you'll get access to my tour dates earlier than anyone. So if you pre-order, you'll get that access.

I promise you it's going to be a game changer. I have so much faith and belief in the work and the research we did to put this book together. And I can't wait for you to have it in your hands.

My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out.

I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book. I read the audio book.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up, or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book. And I'd love to invite you to come and see me for my global tour, Love Rules.

Go to jscheddytour.com to learn more information about tickets, VIP experiences, and more. I can't wait to see you this year.

I can't believe it! My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out and I cannot wait to share it with you. I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book. I read the audiobook.

My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out, and I cannot wait to share it with you.

I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book. I read the audiobook. If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out and I cannot wait to share it with you.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep or let go of love.

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And I cannot wait to share it with you. I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love. So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up, or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

My new book, 8 Rules of Love, is out and I cannot wait to share it with you.

I read the audiobook. If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to 8rulesoflove.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up, or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

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I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to 8rulesoflove.com.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up, or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

I can't believe it! My new book, Eight Rules of Love, is out.

And I cannot wait to share it with you. I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

I can't believe it! My new book, 8 Rules of Love, is out.

I read the audiobook. If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to 8rulesoflove.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

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It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love. So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up, or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

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If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to 8rulesoflove.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

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It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

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I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book. I read the audio book. If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

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I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book. I read the audiobook. If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to 8rulesoflove.com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up, or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

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I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book. I read the audiobook.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to 8RulesOfLove.com.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up, or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

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It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep or let go of love.

So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

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I am so, so excited for you to read this book, for you to listen to this book.

If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to 8rulesoflove.com.

It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep, or let go of love.

You can order my new book 8 Rules of Love at 8rulesoflove.com or at a retail store near you.

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If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eight rules of love dot com. It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep or let go of love.

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If you haven't got it already, make sure you go to eightrulesoflove.com It's dedicated to anyone who's trying to find, keep or let go of love.

So if you've got friends that are dating, broken up or struggling with love, make sure you grab this book.

And I'd love to invite you to come and see me for my global tour, Love Rules. Go to jscheddytour.com to learn more information about tickets, VIP experiences and more.

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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.

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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.

If that's you, head over right now to ThinkLikeAMonkBook.com and you'll be directed to all the great retailers and stores and places that you can get the book right now.

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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.

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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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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?

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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.

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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.

If you have loved the podcast, you will absolutely love the book.

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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 I remember you told me in 2017, like, you should read the Bhagavad Gita.

And so there was that. And as I was writing the book, I was like, what's the thing? Because the original title of the book was The Psychology of Taking Action. Because I was looking at the Mindset Mentor podcast, like 1,400 episodes, and I was like, it's just me speaking for almost every single one of them. And I was like, what do I teach? Like, what do people want from me? And I was like, it's almost all like tips and tricks to understand yourself to take action.

It's better to do your own purpose imperfectly than to try to do someone's perfectly.

Because the point is doing your thing is way better than trying to do someone else's.

The Bhagavad Gita which I would love to do for Vedic knowledge what Ryan's done for Stoicism and The Bhagavad Gita over 5000 years old and that book really exemplifies human challenge

And the Bhagavad Gita, from which I quote a lot in my book, Think Like a Monk, it talks about four different types of motivation.

In the Bhagavad Gita, the book I studied as a monk, it beautifully says our mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

I fell in love with The Bhagavad Gita and Jay and I have been spending time. We've been hanging, we've been traveling together and Jay has really been the catalyst for this next phase of my life.

We have committed to one another in a brotherhood of service and support. I guess we've been in the gym. We've been in the soul gym working out for the past eight months and this is our first time doing anything that's public facing.

A new smith starts to study with Jay and also our teacher Radhanath Swami. It's been a beautiful year and I'm very excited to start talking to people about what we've been studying and learning and doing together.

And the Gita filled in that concept of what it really means. It doesn't mean don't do anything. Yeah. Let go and let God doesn't mean don't do anything. It means do your divine duty, whatever that may be.

And just for whatever reason, the study of the Gita at this particular point in my life really clarified a lot of ideas of how to move through a world where you almost can't do it right.

Now, in the Bhagavad Gita, a book that I absolutely love, that I studied as a monk and I also teach so much from, it said that it's better to do one's own dharma, even if imperfectly, than to do another's dharma perfectly.

And dharma is spoken about as our true eternal nature, our true natural inclination, the element in which we thrive or our purpose, but it's so much bigger than the word purpose.

In my life and in this book, I frequently refer to the Bhagavad Gita, which means song of God.

This is loosely based on the Upanishads, writings from around 800 to 400 BCE.

The tale isn't told about a monk or meant for a spiritual context. It's spoken to a married man who happens to be a talented archer.

It wasn't intended to apply only to one religion or region. It's for all humanity.

Eknath Eswaran, spiritual author and professor who has translated many of India's sacred texts, including the Bhagavad Gita, calls it India's most important gift to the world.

In the Bhagavad Gita, the book from India, it's called the four austerities of speech.

Oh my God, when I experienced that, I thought I have, this is it, I'm free. Yeah, boy was I wrong.

I remember the first time I read that in The Bhagavad Gita like you're not your clothes. You know, we just change our clothes every day and you can change your thoughts every day.

That in the Gita it said that attachment and aversion are two sides of the same coin.

Now, in the Bhagavad Gita, a book that I absolutely love, that I studied as a monk and I also teach so much from,

I'm thinking about my guest Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Homo Deus and Sapiens.

His amazing international bestselling books, Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

By the way, reading that book helped me because that context and perspective I think is so important in understanding who you are and how you fit into this world and why you got there and why you got there.

As Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari said, on this show actually, so if you missed that episode, go back and catch it. It was great.

Now, what stood out to me is that I know that Sapiens is one of your favorite books.

We've had everyone from Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Homo Deus and Sapiens.

His amazing international bestselling books, Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

By the way, reading that book helped me because that context and perspective I think is so important in understanding who you are and how you fit into this world and why you got there and why you got there.

And when I looked at I think the work of Edith Eger in her book The Gift or Viktor Frankl in Man's Search For Meaning and you know two people who lived through incredible atrocities like they turned towards finding meaning and and finding purpose and so I loved what you said at the beginning

Victor Frankl who wrote Man's Search For Meaning these two phenomenal books if anyone hasn't read them like they had that in that scenario.

Recently I was reading from, I was reading from Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning Again.

Author Viktor Frankl who wrote about his experience in the holocaust in his book Man's Search For Meaning once said, what is to give light must endure burning.

My favorite book, or at least it's in the top five is Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Franklin.

I don't know. I read a lot of really hard books when I was in my 20s because I skipped college.

And that was just one of the books. I mean, that's a book that so many people have read and people quote from all the time.

stop asking what you expect out of life and start asking what life expects out of you.

My favorite book, or at least it's in the top five is Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Franklin.

And you talk about this book, Man's Search For Meaning, which I had on my bookshelf.

And it was stop asking what life expects out of you and start asking, or no, stop asking what you expect out of life and start asking what life expects out of you.

Something along those lines. Yes. Yes. Yeah. That's it.

And I was like, wait, what? I was like, wait, what's life expecting from me?

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If you haven't read Walter Isaacson's books on Steve Jobs, on Da Vinci, on Einstein, read them. Those guys have failed so many times.

And if you haven't read Walter Isaacson's book on him, it's amazing.

And so Steve Wozniak is looking at Steve Jobs and having an argument. And he says to Steve Jobs, he goes, well, what do you even do? And imagine looking at Steve Jobs and going, what do you even do?

And so Steve Wozniak goes, you're not an engineer. You're not a coder. You're not an artist. You're not a marketer or whatever he says. What do you even do?

And Steve Jobs says, musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.

When I read about Steve Jobs and his biography by Walter Isaacson, who we've also had on the podcast, I learned about something which is a term called RDF, Reality Distortion Field.

It's when someone distorts reality to suit their narrative.

I believe it's in Walter Isaacson's book or maybe in one of the other stories of Steve Wozniak looking at Steve Jobs and he's saying what do you even do? You're not a coder.

Like I said, your biographies on Steve Jobs and Einstein particularly go down as two of my favorite books of all time.

I put the Steve Jobs biography into my top three books of all time.

Well, that's because of Steve Jobs. I just tried to report and he's the one who led the interesting life.

No, absolutely. But you captured it splendidly and beautifully.

When he was a young kid, his dad was building a fence around the backyard of the house, and young Steve was helping with his hammer. His father said, we have to make the back of the fence just as beautiful as the front. Steve said, well, it faces these woods and marshland. Nobody will ever see it. Nobody will know. His father said, well, you will know.

I mean, every word I put the Steve Jobs biography into my top three books of all time.

Well, that's because of Steve Jobs. I just tried to report and he's the one who led the interesting life.

No, absolutely. But you captured it splendidly and beautifully.

I wish more of them had rubbed off on me. I'd love to be more like Steve Jobs, although perhaps kinder and gentler at times.

It was a book on the concept that our minds are tapped into a higher power. We can download insights and we can shift the fabric of the world.

If you read Steve Jobs' biography by Walter Isaacson, you know, Isaacson literally writes, Steve Jobs believed in prana or an intuitive way of living in the world.

Yeah, absolutely. And I love that book. It's right behind the big light. Beautiful book.

Isaacson said Jobs' ideas were so brilliant, so revolutionary. They seem to come from magic.

Maybe it's the prophet by Cleal Juberan maybe it's the giving tree by shell Silverstein maybe it's Meditations of Marcus or Ilias one of my favorite books of all time you know but I think just being a minimalist is is so powerful build your life around a few things even in work I mentioned it rather than pushing at a thousand pieces of mediocrity do one thing incredibly well you know even if it takes five years ten years there's a chapter called make your project X in the wealth money camp by and the example is the Duomo in Milan you know how long they spent on it in this world where we want to do something in an hour and they get the rewards or maybe a week maybe a month it took 600 years to create the Duomo that these are values of a unspoken age 600 years of calibrating refining optimizing to create the Duomo and so that's what a project X is rather than doing lots of things you do one thing maybe it's one work of art Michelangelo took four years of working on the chapel of the Sistine ceiling but he got the job done so minimalism is very powerful.

My favorite passage is in Meditations, Marcus Ruiz is like a better wrestler, but not a better forgiver of faults, a better friend in tight places.

There's passages in Meditations where Marx realizes going, you're an old man and you're still losing your temper. You're still worried about what other people think. He's like, you're still afraid of death and it's almost here.

Marcus Aurelius, the story is Marcus Aurelius would walk through I guess the town and just have someone saying you're just a man when everyone was praising his name and kind of bowing to him and saying you're like this god right and it's having that accountability that you talked about.

When you wake in the morning, tell yourself the people I will deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.

And he says they are like this because they can't tell good from evil.

But they can't implicate me in ugliness, nor can I feel angry at my relative or hate him. We were born to work together like feet and hands and eyes to feel anger at someone to turn your back on him. These are obstructions.

And it's also in Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. And it said that when Marcus Aurelius would walk around the Roman Square, he'd be followed by a whisperer almost or an assistant.

It's also in Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. It said that when Marcus Aurelius would walk around the Roman square he'd be followed by a whisperer almost or an assistant.

Oh, this is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. You see, this is letters to Seneca.

It's by Stephen Covey who wrote the book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, one of my favorite ones.

I'm a big fan of the book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.

Now Stephen Covey famously talked about the circle of influence versus a circle of concern in his incredible book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

And then there's a really beautiful book that I think is one of the most important books that I've read in my life called The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. And that book taught me a lot about bringing spiritual practice into my creativity and into my life as creative practice, but prayer through journaling.

There's this, have you ever read The Artist's Way?

Yes.

Julia Cameron.

So she has this quote, which I'm going to butcher right now, but like basically that the quality of your life is the quality of your ability to pay attention, to pay attention to the details.

There's a famous book called The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and this practice of morning pages is something that many people have found a lot of, yeah, just incredible experiences from.

And I really love artists way, Julia Cameron's book for anyone that's approaching a creative writing project.

And I really love Artists Way, Julia Cameron's book for anyone that's approaching a creative writing project.

Yeah. So like for me, I was like, oh my gosh, I gotta go take myself on an artist date.

Yeah, highly recommend it.

I'm thinking about my guest Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Homo Deus and Sapiens.

His amazing international bestselling books, Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

But Yuval is, you know, reading a second book, which is also extremely incredible.

I had to get Yuval on this after actually after I read Homo Deus.

We've had everyone from Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Homo Deus and Sapiens.

His amazing international bestselling books, Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

Recently, I had one from Napoleon Hill and I won't quote it exactly right, but it was something about just get started. The tools will start to come into place once you get started.

You become what you think about.

And he's the one that introduced me to this book. This I've got to help with an elastic now is Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

See, here's the book. It's falling apart. I didn't read it. I keep reading it. It isn't something I read. I'm reading it. I read it every day.

Now, that was a commitment that I made on the 21st of October, 1961. Ray Stanford said, if you read that every day, do what I tell you. He said, you have anything you want.

We read Napoleon Hill.

So we understand the power of a mastermind and we just, as big of egos as me and him have, we never let it get in the way of like supporting one another and any of that, you know?

There's these incredible biographies of men and women in history. And some very early personal growth books like Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking, Dale Carnegie, I mean, Napoleon Hill, all the classics, right?

Great book changed my life.

I feel like also what you just said, whatever you recognize in someone, they'll repeat it. And it took me a long time to realize that if I make someone feel bad for something they don't do well, they actually get scared to try and do it right.

Yeah. I feel like also what you just said, whatever you recognize in someone, they'll repeat it. And it took me a long time to realize that if I make someone feel bad for something they don't do well, they actually get scared to try and do it right.

I just reread The Four Agreements

You know, I started reading like The Secret, The Four Agreements.

I started reading like The Secret, The Four Agreements.

I was a huge fan of you know Gary Chapman's five love languages and I think that's beautiful

If you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it.

a big thank you to Gary Chapman for writing this book, for creating this concept and for introducing it to me through his work.

I want to thank Gary Chapman again for writing the book, The Five Love Languages.

We all know the book Love Languages that Gary Chapman made. The five love languages, if you don't know it, it's an awesome theory.

The idea of we all like to receive love in different ways, but we often give love in the way we want to receive it, not in the way someone else wants to receive it.

So the five love languages are words of affirmation, physical touch, receiving gifts, quality time, and acts of service.

Gary Chapman talks about the five love languages, quality time, acts of service, gifts, words of affirmation, and touch.

Gary Chapman wrote this great book called The Five Love Languages. And if you haven't read it, I highly recommend that you do read it.

It's a great couples book because it's so simple to apply.

thank you very much to Gary Chapman, of course, for writing the book and giving us this wonderful framework.

Now, the five love languages as outlined by Gary Chapman are words of affirmation being the first.

So these are the five love languages as outlined in the book.

If you haven't read it, highly recommend that you get it.

He's the number one New York Times bestselling author of one of my favorite books, Principles.

Now I read this book when it first came out and there were so many incredible insights of wisdom in there.

And today I get to sit down with the one and only Ray Dalio.

So today I want to dive into life and work and many different areas that you speak about in your incredible book Principles.

It's a compendium of these Principles that I wrote over 25 years on that situation.

If you haven't already, if you have read the book, which I know many of you are very excited we're going to have Ray on the podcast.

Pain plus reflection equals progress.

Pain plus reflection equals progress. If you cross out the word reflection, all you're left with is pain. Pain doesn't equal progress.

If we choose to reflect, we can actually rapidly grow and evolve and help those around us do the same.

Ray Dalio, when he wrote the book Principles, he said every founder, every CEO, everyone who's running a company has a secret algorithm in their head. Not all ideas are equal.

Now I read this book when it first came out and there were so many incredible insights of wisdom in there.

And today I get to sit down with the one and only Ray Dalio.

So today I want to dive into life and work and many different areas that you speak about in your incredible book Principles.

If you haven't already, if you have read the book, which I know many of you are very excited we're going to have Ray on the podcast.

I put the book and also video case studies and everything in a free app. So you don't have to buy a book. You can get the book.

I didn't ever read it. I've watched all the movies.

I feel like your friends in life are your Horcruxes.

Cause I read a Harry Potter book one time that was a screenplay.

You're also a huge Harry Potter book and movie fan.

Oh my God. So am I. Biggest nerd!

It's like all the lines where she's just so sassy that I'm always like referencing.

And you know what's funny, actually, Harry Potter is one of those things that I feel like is that that thing that you'll mention something small and then the other person will go, wait, wait, wait, what?

And so we were filming a scene in Paris for Emily in Paris, and it was myself, Ashley, Luca, and I believe Camille. We were all at this table shooting a dinner scene. And someone said something Harry Potter. And then all four of us, we had to stop filming because we were looking at what our what our like different houses would be. And we just literally went off on some tangent. And it was so funny because there we are in the middle of Paris talking about Harry Potter.

And she was like, cause I read a Harry Potter book one time that was a screenplay.

It's first we show them the letters, then we start with the sound. It's very slow, structured, but it adds up and then, you know, it creates, you know, the greatest literary artists in the world, the system. And if we implemented that to our self-improvement, if we implemented that to our physical health, our diet, you know, the sky is the limit.

The album Santiago is inspired by Paulo Coelho's Alchemist.

If you haven't heard of, I mean, you have to have heard of this book. Everyone's listening. If you haven't, it's a legendary book by a legendary author.

So Boogie is my best friend put that book in my hand when I was probably 17, 18.

And crazy books to read at that age.

And I was instantly like, it became like a Bible for me, you know?

He put me on to Napoleon Hill. He put me on to the Alchemist.

The Alchemist.

The Alchemist, which I think is one of your favorite.

I think it comes back to the treasure in our heart and what's already within us and just discovering that and finding that.

The book that's had the biggest impact on you?

The Alchemist.

I remember reading The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and tearing up, you know?

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.

And then I read a lot of Deepak Chopra's Seven Laws of Spiritual Success, which I love.

And then I read a lot of Deepak Chopra's Seven Laws of Spiritual Success, which I love.

Grab The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success as well. It's a phenomenal book, one of my favorite ones.

I remember learning once that the human brain and the human body aren't necessarily always on the same page. If you're running from danger, if there's a threat and you run from the danger, even when the danger subsides, your body's still in the danger. And I think they talk about something similar in the book, The Body Keeps the Score.

The book, The Body Keeps the Score was one of the first offerings of this idea, this concept that our body is remembering.

A psychiatrist and best-selling author Bessel van der Kolk writes in The Body Keeps the Score, by the way it's a phenomenal book you have to check it out, traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies.

I've been a big fan of her books, her work.

I'm talking about Laura Lynn Jackson, the author of these two incredible books, The Light Between Us and Signs, The Secret Language of the Universe.

If you haven't read these books, I highly recommend you grab a copy right now.

You know, I started reading like The Secret, The Four Agreements.

I started reading like The Secret, The Four Agreements.

Last time you were here to talk about your last book, Signs, which I absolutely love and I know so many of my friends do.