On Purpose with Jay Shetty

I don't feel there could have been a more timely moment for this book to be coming into our lives, and I would encourage everyone who's listening and watching to go and order a copy of this book, because it's the book we've been waiting for.

It's the book we've been hoping for. I think a lot of us have been looking for navigation during this time. We've been looking for direction and guidance and understanding at this time.

I really do believe that The Book of Hope, a survival guide for trying times, is the book that's going to help us do that.

And, you know, in this book I talk about the reasons for hope, the energy of young people when they know the problem and you empower them to take action. And the resilience of nature, we destroy a place utterly, but give nature time, maybe some help, it will come back again.

And then this extraordinary intellect that we have, we haven't used it wisely, we haven't always been wise at all. We don't deserve the title of Homo sapiens, the wise ape, because we've been destroying our only home, because there's been a disconnect, I think, between this clever brain and the human heart.

I highly recommend it. We'll put the link to the book in the comments so you can go and grab a copy.

I was so happy to see the success of your book. And when I saw it come up, I literally saw everyone posting about it and everyone talking about it.

It's still hard to believe in a lot of ways, even just the whole of this journey. I would have never imagined, I think it was July, 2018, when I popped up my first Instagram square.

Make sure you go and grab a copy of the book. We've put the link into all of the comment sections and subject areas so that you can go and grab your copy.

I highly recommend it.

My advance for my first book, which was Party Girl was $1,000.

So that was just this tiny fiction book that I wanted to write about.

And I still love so much. And fiction is still such a big place in my heart. I actually just finished my first screenplay.

There's actually a great book by the School of Life called How to Be Bored.

It's a really small book.

Oh, interesting.

Yeah, I came out a couple of years ago and I spoke about with Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Homer, Deus and Sapiens.

We spoke about boredom on the podcast and we were going to start the boredom movement.

We were like, you should have X amount of time every day where you allow yourself to be bored.

Yes, yes.

That you allow yourself to not do anything.

And maybe, like you said with your children, we'd actually do something innately creative and magical and beautiful.

Maybe you won't, maybe you'll just be bored.

Just be bored, yeah.

But it's healthy for the mind and the brain.

I think is very illustrative, some Duke researchers who I've had on my podcast were fascinated with this hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania called the Hansas.

the second half of The Energy Paradox is to how to get people to implement this the problem with intermittent fasting 80 of americans westerners are pre-diabetic insulin resistant whether they know it or not and their doctors don't know how to diagnose it quite frankly and when people embark on trying to extend the period of time where they're not eating they literally fall flat on their face

if we can reduce that eating window to six to eight hours a day, it's going to have profound short-term and long-term effects on our health and we can actually measure that with some cool tests called insulin light growth factor

there's a new theory called the gut centric theory of hunger that I talk about in The Energy Paradox that theory is that these bacteria actually guide our food choices and our hunger whether we want to eat or not not our brain not our willpower

I want to recommend to everyone who's been listening and watching go and grab a copy of The Energy Paradox which is Dr. Gundry's new book and go and grab a copy of the plant paradox I promise you you won't regret it

That was the premise of The Plant Paradox that plants believe it or not do not want to be eaten.

I think that would be fantastic insight and use for all of our listeners today. But to simplify it for them, what would you encourage as stop eating this, start eating this and why?

I want to recommend to everyone who's been listening and watching go and grab a copy of the energy paradox which is Dr. Gundry's new book and go and grab a copy of The Plant Paradox I promise you you won't regret it

I was actually as far as I know the first person to write about intermittent fasting in my first book Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution

I've got a whole book The Plant Paradox Family Cookbook on how to pressure cook these things.

William Zinsser wrote one of the seminal books On Writing, which I forget. I think it's on how to great writing or something.

But the world hasn't heard what your lens on Tokyo is. The world hasn't heard your take on Tokyo.

He's the New York Times bestselling author of You Were Born Rich, an internationally acclaimed speaker and a motivational coach.

Well, I think it comes from awareness. It's funny you mention it because almost everybody tried to talk me out of it. You know, you can't teach that. And well, the truth is everyone is born rich. We are born with deep reservoirs of talent and ability within us. We're born rich. Most people are just short of money. The riches are in the talents and the abilities that we've got within us.

I'd argue with a lot of people to keep that name, but I just made up my mind. It's the truth. You are born rich. That's all there is to it.

But then I got a hold of Lloyd C. Douglas' book, The Magnificent Obsession.

It's called The Science of Getting Rich by Waddles. It's chapter 14. Leave everyone with the impression of increase.

In my book Last Year, my first chapter is entirely about setting and defining your values.

It's called How to Talk to Your Kids So They'll Listen to You, something like that. I can't remember the name of the book.

Which is by the way, anyone wants to understand, you and I have talked about this many lives, many masters by Brian Weiss. It's a very good book to read, to kind of just give yourself an idea of why thinking about reincarnation is such a beautiful way to look at life.

Anyone wants to understand you and I have talked about this many lives, many masters by Brian Weiss. It's a very good book to read to kind of just give yourself an idea of why thinking about reincarnation is such a beautiful way to look at life.

And when you read this book, which is a true story, and you kind of understand that if you just kind of accept that you get to come back and you're always learning, you start to not fear death anymore.