On Purpose with Jay Shetty

This is the book I want you to go and get.

If you don't have You Happier Already, which is the book that we're talking from, make sure you grab a copy because we're, you know, literally touching the surface.

I genuinely, genuinely recommend this book.

I want you to go and grab this book, The Seven Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good Based on Your Brain Type. The book's called You Happier.

As an author, Lily wrote Swimming Lessons, which is a collection of poems. I'm a huge fan of poetry, so can't wait to dive into that.

When I think about the question, how are you really? A lot of times people think about it in context of conversation with someone else. But really, when I think about it, it's about coming home to yourself.

And he said something to me and he said, you know, Jenna, this is not your life's work. This is an important piece of work in your life.

I've honestly had to learn how to rest. I've literally had to look at it kind of like a couch to 5K but in reverse.

I've had to adopt this practice of when I cross the threshold into a room, whether it's an office, my bedroom, the house, the living room, my daughter's room, like whatever that is. I have to really like plant my feet and like actually cross through with intention to just be here now.

And I've recognized that that's not the case. Like I want to live a life that feels better than it looks.

The human brain is the most complicated object in the known universe.

Every single cell in our body is made from the food that we eat. Every cell.

If you want to manage your metabolism, if you want to manage your body weight, just manage your calories.

The human brain is the most complicated object in the known universe.

What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.

With this book that we're talking about today, Recovery, Freedom from our Addictions...Is you expanded that definition of addiction out and you said that actually in some form or another, we're all addicts, whether it's mobiles, whether it's food, whether it's money, whether it's power.

You've completely understood the raison d'etre of the book, the reasoning behind it, mate. I think it's inevitable in a capitalist consumer culture that addiction is a component because what consumerism is is that we acquire an external commodity in order to make us feel better.

The reason that it was important to me to express that I'm not coming from a didactic position is because now that, even when I come in this room here now at Facebook, I meet young people that are competent, lucid, brilliant communicators, seem like they're at ease and comfortable with themselves in ways that I wasn't when I was that age.

Step four in the book is you take a personal inventory of all the things that have ever messed you up. So it might be things in your childhood, it might be something that your mum did, it could be something serious like maybe you didn't grow up around your dad or someone died that you needed or somebody abused you.

I hope that you're going to go and click and order this book today. It's there in the comments. If anything we said connected with you, resonated with you, please, please, please go through.

You're going to find it in the links. I'm so excited to talk to my dear friend and awesome human being about his new book, Radical Love.

Learning to accept yourself and others, something we all need to do.

I'm recommending to everyone, please, please, please go and grab a copy of the book, Radical Love, Learning to Accept Yourself and Others.

So please do go and grab a copy of Radical Love.

Now today I'm going to be looking at a specific book called The Essential Enneagram and this is the Definitive Personality Test and Self-Discovery Guide by David Daniels, MD at the Stanford University Medical School.

Now the book goes on to say that ennea is a Greek word for nine and gram means a figure or something written.

Notice how the suppression of anger, the book goes on to say, develops tension and resentment.

This book is fantastic. David Daniels, The Essential Enneagram. I've had it for a ton of time. It beautifully gives you an intro into the Enneagram which you can then dive into deeper.

remember I was reading from David Daniels book The Essential Enneagram it's a short book, really simple and I really wanted to focus on it today because I think it covers so much ground in such simplicity

Today, I'm speaking to two incredible guests, Gary White and Matt Damon, who are co-founders of water.org and Water Equity.

I highly recommend everyone goes and grabs a copy of the book while you're listening or watching, but we will be diving into that and discussing it.

And I think there was a line in the book that really struck me. And you said that for that girl, water was life. And it was also a shot at a better life.

I would love to know how my community can be a part of that wave, how I can be a part of that wave. What are the opportunities and ways people can get involved?

I highly recommend everyone goes and grabs a copy of the book, The Worth of Water, our story of chasing solutions to the world's greatest challenge.

For my husband, Zach, thank you for loving all of my parts and helping me feel safer than I ever thought possible.

I opened this book by saying that my publishers came to me and I sent them the manuscript...And I send them this manuscript and they write back like, we need to talk.

And we don't think that you're showing your true strength...And my response was, my ability to be this vulnerable is my true strength.

I have an editor, then it goes to Zach and then it goes to the publisher...And when he read this, it was really triggering for him, super activating.

I didn't even know this was going on...And it's so emotional for me because when you're living in that kind of recovery in that crisis, there's so much shame wrapped up in it.

And of course, today we're talking about his brand new book, which I'm going to hold up the virtual digital version, which is the world we live in now, Happy Mind, Happy Life.

And I really, really hope that all of you go out and grab a copy of this book, 10 Simple Ways To Feel Great Every Day.

Honestly, congratulations on this amazing book and all your incredible success. And I can't wait for people to read it, but thank you for coming to talk to me about it.

I'm looking really looking forward to this conversation.

Everyone, that is Dr Rangan Chatterjee. The book is called Happy Mind, Happy Life. It is out now. When you hear this podcast, make sure you go and grab your copy.

But my last book, 12 and a half, Ingredients...

What I realized when I wrote it was, oh, it's not just empathy. Oh, it's not just ambition.

We Were Dreamers, an immigrant superhero origin story.

I highly recommend that you go and grab a copy of this book when this episode is out, the book will be available. So I highly recommend you get Amazon, Barnes & Noble, wherever it is.

We Were Dreamers that I highly recommend you go and get.

You know, who hates that, by the way, is my parents.

Why would you air out all of our dirty, all of the worst things that we've ever done?

If you look to the psychology literature, which I do, or you read a book like, Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Jung, where you start to look at some of the kind of hybrid work, which is psychiatry, which of course are MDs that are grounded in physiology, but also think psychoanalytically.

If you look to the psychology literature, which I do, or you read a book like, Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Jung, where you start to look at some of the kind of hybrid work, which is psychiatry, which of course are MDs that are grounded in physiology, but also think psychoanalytically.

You know, you're seen as someone who's superhuman. You're able to do incredible things on stage, off stage. You have a phenomenal physical, mental, psychological presence.

But at the same time, you talk about in this book being 31 years old and finding out about this brain tumor.

I've applied what he's taught me for six months now since I met him, seven months, maybe eight months now. And I'm 62, but I'm 51.

My goal is to get it down to 41 or 42 if I possibly can.

It's filled with things. I interviewed 150 of the smartest scientists, Nobel laureates, regenerative doctors and scientists to show you what's happening right now that you might think would happen 20 or 30 years from now.