On Purpose with Jay Shetty

I came across this one book called One Answer to Cancer.

And I think it's called 12 Gifts for Life by Edith Eager.

I am so excited because in front of me I have her first amazing book that's out called Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? Everyday Tools for Life's Ups and Downs.

I want you to go out and grab a copy. It's already a number one Sunday Times bestseller, a best-selling book.

For those of you who don't have the book in front of you yet, I know you will after this podcast. Dr. Jules talks about everything from moods to motivation, to emotional pain, to grief, to self-doubt, to fear, to stress, to meaning.

I highly recommend everyone goes out and gets a copy of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? Everyday Tools for Life's Ups and Downs.

Yeah, well, my dad just put out a book, but he talks about in the book, we went to therapy together when I was in high school or maybe in college because we were kind of butting heads a lot.

And he recently released a photographic memoir with more than 100 photos from his life on and off the court.

And this book, I was just saying to Dwayne, Dwayne, welcome to the show, is a work of art.

Like it's so beautiful. I mean, the pictures, the choices, the words in between, it is a work of art.

And I want to congratulate you, Dwayne, on this incredible achievement.

I highly recommend you go and grab a copy. Whether you're a basketball fan or not, there is so much on and off the court in this book that you're going to benefit so much from it.

Love, launch, and learn resonated with me as a new entrepreneur and father of three.

He wrote his debut book, This Is Vegan Propaganda and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You.

It's the environmental impacts. It's the impact of what is a healthy and unhealthy way of doing this. You're asking the questions that are important to us. Can poorer countries shift in this direction?

And the reason why I want everyone to go and grab the book, This Is Vegan Propaganda, is because I want us to just be educated and learn and be informed so that we can make informed decisions.

For those of you that are going to go and grab a copy, you're going to have all the education and insight at your fingertips.

I hope that some of you are going to give it a go. So thank you for joining in. Big thank you to Ed. Go and follow Earthling Ed on Instagram and YouTube and all social media platforms wherever Ed is. And go and grab a copy of the book, This Is Vegan Propaganda.

I'm speaking with none other than Scott O'Neill, the author of this incredible new book called Be Where Your Feet Are, Seven Principles to Keep You Present, Grounded, and Thriving.

I had this book sent to me, and even before I read it, I've read it now, but before I read it, I would look at this title every day, and it became an affirmation. It became a mantra. It became a part of my life.

I couldn't recommend it more highly.

We have not even touched some of my favorite chapters in the book. Like we haven't even gone over the concepts of some of my favorite chapters in the book.

I'm just gonna go, I'm gonna answer this question from like the last book I read. Totally. Because I read a lot of books and they're all on different topics. Like I just reread The Four Agreements and then at the same time was reading On Palestine, the Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pape book

So if you're looking to learn more, but I'm a big Noam Chomsky fan.

using terms like the peace process or negotiations or both sides, words like that or expressions like that. They perpetuate this loop of what Ilan Pape calls a conceptual paralysis and it's a really ineffective way of talking about the situation

I also read this amazing book called The Way of the Spring by Ben Ehrenreich that is about the situation in Palestine, but mostly through anecdotes with people who live there like Palestinians who live in the West Bank. I love both those books on the subject.

Actually in that Ben Ehrenreich book, The Way of the Spring, something that really like caught me off guard was this like, there was this character in the book that just kept getting charged for no reason and being put in jail for no reason.

This book is beautiful. I feel like I'm opening up a ray of sunshine.

And every page you turn, you just met with real great nuggets of wisdom.

I want to see how you're going to start owning your morning after this.

You are a morning person.

I really hope everyone's going to get after listening to this episode.

There's a great book called You Are Not Crazy, letters from your therapist, and in it, it says similar to working out a muscle, if you can effectively survive tears in your marriage and then repair them, then it makes the relationship stronger.

The one that I really want you to read is Play Nice But Win, a CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader.

I love the title. I want to dive into the book a bit later, but I want to start off with asking you a question that I've been asking a lot of people recently because I think there's something beautiful about learning about this.

I talk about this in the book and the kind of struggle that I had with that and with my parents.

And I talk about that in the book as well.

And it wouldn't feel right to win if I had cheated or done it in an unscrupulous way.

This is such a beautiful story that comes out of Richard Branson's autobiography, Finding My Virginity.

And today his new book that we're talking about is called This Bright Future by Bobby Hall.

But I just recently found out that you can solve a Rubik's cube while freestyling.

But when I look at your childhood, which I got to explore through this book, you describe yourself as an orphan with parents.

But I wanted to start off just by asking you, like what's this time been for you?

We're gonna dive into Bobby's new book, This Bright Future.

I wanted to know what about that story lights you up and why it's one of your favorites.

Well, actually, you know, when I look at the original... Favorites. Well, actually, you know, when I look at the original Tarzan of the Apes that inspired me,

I was 10 years old and I wanted to go to Africa. I wanted to live with wild animals in the forest. I thought Tarzan married the wrong Jane.

If I read the book now, I don't like it because there's an awful lot of killing and death and all that stuff. But that's what inspired me and that's what made my dream.