Think Like a Monk

Description

Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day by Jay Shetty is a self-help book that explores how adopting a monk’s mindset can help cultivate peace, purpose, and fulfillment. Blending ancient wisdom with practical advice for everyday challenges, the former monk guides readers through the journey of achieving mental clarity, emotional control, and a life of meaning based on his own experiences as a former monk.

Takeaway List

Let Go of Negative Energy – Shetty asks us to let go of negativity through mental, environmental, and relationships detoxification. He presses the need to learn knowledge and minimize attachments to all toxic influences, fears, and past regrets.

Find Purpose – A life spent in purpose, or “Dharma,” is meaningful. Shetty has drawn concrete steps for tuning ourselves to purpose and engages the reader in activities that help uplift other people.

Train the Mind: Here, Shetty shares several techniques of getting out of your way to meditate on, pay attention to, and develop self-control over thoughts while reducing stress yet remaining composed in response to the adversities of life.
Work with Intention: Shetty teaches how people should approach work and achieve goals with a sense of service rather than ego and status, thereby turning ambition into purposeful contribution.

Cultivate Gratitude and Compassion – Cultivate more intimacy in your life through acts of gratitude and being more sympathetic toward others, to help establish better relationships that bring you closer to yourself and improve the atmosphere surrounding you.

Routine and Resilience – Shetty makes great mention of daily routines as part of building resilience in an individual and further propels that person to their next phase of growth and self-development.

This is a book of how to develop an inner peaceful, on-purpose mentality from monastic ways of wisdom in conjunction with action helpful to the layman or daily living.