#265 Jay Shetty on How to Think Like a Monk and Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose (Re-Release)

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Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

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🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

I am delighted to welcome former monk turned social media superstar, Jay Shetty. This episode was first released in September 2020. After having spent three years living as a monk in India, Jay believes that you don’t have to live like a monk to think like one. With his social media following now totaling over 32 million, Jay is transforming the ancient wisdom he has learned into bite-sized nuggets that will help us all live more meaningful and purposeful lives.

So many of us these days are living lives that are not truly ours. Instead, we base our opinion of ourselves on what we think other people think of us. In today’s conversation, Jay and I talk about how we can figure out our own identity and live our truest and most authentic life. He talks us through his value audit exercise which will help us all on our way to living the life we really want.

We also discuss the importance of staying open and curious to new ideas and how our childhood experiences play into all our relationships. We delve into gratitude and Jay shares some brilliant tips to help you get more out of your daily gratitude practice.

This conversation is full of timeless wisdom, personal stories and actionable tips and I really hope it helps you live the life you were born to live.

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0:00.0	Wasting your time trying to change how someone thinks of you can actually be one of the most worthless
0:06.3	pursuits in life. But changing how you think about yourself is probably one of the most
0:11.5	worthwhile pursuits in life. The one we spend less time on. We're constantly trying to change
0:16.8	how people think about us and we think if they think highly of us, then we'll feel better
0:20.8	about ourselves. But that's not the case. The case is we can change how we feel about ourselves
0:26.0	by changing our behaviour and being more in a line with the person we want to be with our values.
0:30.6	Hi, my name is Dr. Rongan Chatterjee. Welcome to Feel Better Live More.
0:44.2	This is the sixth conversation that I've chosen to put out as part of this weekend's rerelease series
0:50.4	that is proving to be really, really popular. Now there are so many new listeners coming to my
0:56.4	podcast at the moment. Since the release of my book, Happy Minds, Happy Life, and so for new
1:01.3	listeners, I really wanted to be able to showcase what my podcast is all about and the variety of
1:07.6	different topics that I try to cover each week. Now, I initially thought I would do this for four
1:13.3	weekends, but I've actually decided to continue for the time being because as well as the wonderful
1:18.6	feedback from new listeners, I'm also getting so many messages from longtime listeners who are
1:25.2	really enjoying re-listening to some of the classic episodes from the archive. Now the conversation
1:31.1	I've chosen to put out this week was one that took place all the way back in the summer of 2020
1:37.2	with Jay Shetty. Now at the age of 22, Jay left London to live as a monk in India and during that
1:44.3	time he learned a lot about what it truly means to live a meaningful and contented life. And he has
1:50.0	a real gift for taking ancient wisdom and condensing it down into bite-sized nuggets of wisdom.
1:58.0	Now many of us are living lives that are not truly ours. Many of us base our opinions of ourselves
2:04.0	on what we think, other people think of us. And in our conversation, we talk about all kinds of
2:10.0	different ideas, including the importance of staying curious and open to new ideas, how we can go
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