On Purpose with Jay Shetty

And we've got White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.

There's a book called White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.

He wrote The Power of Habit and Smarter, Faster, Better, which talk about productivity, habits, and the science behind it.

Your books are incredibly powerful and I'm just really grateful that we get to have this conversation.

I highly recommend everyone go and grab the book, The Power of Habit because it's been such a powerful book in my own personal life for the last, you know, eight years since I read it or nine years now since I read it

I know you love the book, The Power of Habit.

Rhonda's work has massively transformed millions of lives around the world.

Her newest work is a continuation of her previous insights and I'm really looking forward to spreading her powerful message.

Her latest book is called 'The Greatest Secret' and that's what we dive into today.

Today's guest is Rhonda Byrne. She's an internationally renowned bestselling author that is best known for her documentary and book titled The Secret.

Her newest work is a continuation of her previous insights and I'm really looking forward to spreading her powerful message.

the first book is in my, I'd say like adult life, that I ever put like real intention into reading was 48 Laws of Power, and I read it in a moment.

I think like one of the key things in my personal story is that like I have gotten lucky at key specific moments of my life through a decision that I made, and I was sick with pneumonia, and I read Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power,

and there wouldn't have been another moment where I would have been again at home and had the ability to dive into something in such a deep level, but and I think the way he talks about power in like just in the past is people think of it as a negative thing,

but there's positive, there's definite positives if you use it to not only help yourself, but help others.

And so that was what my takeaway was, and it was again, this was years ago, but that was what my takeaway was.

And of course, the greatest one of all time in my opinion, The 48 Laws of Power.

That's what sort of inspired my first book, The 48 Laws of Power, because my sympathies are more on the side of the underdog.

So I wanted to like reveal to everyone what goes on behind closed doors, the real games of power that people play.

There's a book called How to Be an Anti-Racist with Ibram X. Kendi.

There's a book called How to Be an Antiracist with Ibram X Kendi.

Carol Dweck, who is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and author of the book Mindset, in a TED talk, described a high school where if a student was not successful in passing a class, they needed to graduate, they didn't receive a failing grade such as an F or an E, they received the grade not yet.

That I've ever given to read the book Mindset. That will change your life if you read it and do it and live accordingly. Truly, it's the most important book in the English language.

Well, you know what? That works too. What I learned from Jennifer Doudna is you have to look inside yourself and say, what is my best approach at being a collaborator, a creative team builder, and I'm going to do it my way and be comfortable with it. I learned that I'm not a particularly great manager.

Well, you know what? That works, too.

What I learned from Jennifer Doudna is you have to look inside yourself and say, what is my best approach at being a collaborator, a creative team builder?

She wrote Dopamine Nation, incredible book about dopamine in the context of addiction, but all kinds of addiction.

She wrote Dopamine Nation, incredible book about dopamine in the context of addiction, but all kinds of addiction.

I remember reading Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers and it was like you've got to have 10,000 hours to even be considered an expert.

I think enhancements, I think rich people buying better jeans for their kids than poor people is a horror that we have to avoid just like in Brave New World or Gattaca and I think editing out the diversity of our species.

I think enhancements, I think rich people buying better genes for their kids than poor people is a horror that we have to avoid just like in Brave New World or Gattaca.

In 2018, I read Michael Pollan's book, How to Change Your Mind. I went through it like a bag of peanuts.

On Purpose launched in 2019 and his book that I loved came out in 2018. I'm speaking about the one, the only Michael Pollan, an award-winning journalist, best-selling author known for reshaping how we think about food, nature, and how we experience the world around us.

And psychedelics and meditation both have a way of kind of smudging the windshield of our consciousness, you know.

I've read The Little Prince more times than I can count, you know?

So that's a book I give out quite a lot.

Her bestselling books, Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs are global phenomena translated into nearly 30 languages.

As I said, this is one of my favorite books that you've written. I highly recommend it to anyone.

Everyone, Esther Perel, the author of The State of Affairs, Rethinking Infidelity and the author of Mating in Captivity.

I also wrote a book called Blue Zones of Happiness and a cover story for National Geographic that took the same approach of finding statistically happiest places and then reverse engineering.

The result, Blue Zones Kitchen, which comes out in December, is a hybrid of a National Geographic article and a cookbook. A hundred recipes delivered a hundred.

It's on Amazon.com right now.

Blue Zones Kitchen.

A hundred recipes to live to a hundred.

Blue Zones Kitchen, which comes out in December, is a hybrid of a National Geographic article and a cookbook.

It's on Amazon.com right now.

Blue Zones Kitchen. A hundred recipes to live to a hundred.

It's like he talks about how he actually has a room where he keeps his books like a library, but he takes his shoes off when he enters that room because of the wisdom and the weight and the energy and the gravitas he believes books hold.

If you've read Shoe Dog, amazing. If you haven't, make sure you read that as well.

Scott made the three Hangover movies, but then also made Just Mercy.

And if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

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

I recently read Edith Eager's book The Gift. She lived through the Holocaust and she had that mindset in the Holocaust.

So she said the only way she got through it is she realized that she wasn't a prisoner that the only prisoners were the guards because they were prisoners of their own conscience.

Gabby is a New York Times bestselling author of The Universe Has Your Back and has written five additional bestsellers.

Gabrielle has written multiple New York Times bestselling books, including The Universe Has Your Back.

And you wrote a book called Mentors, which was phenomenal, too.

And you wrote a book called Mentors, which was phenomenal too.