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🗓️ 5 April 2017
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is a Google pioneer, award-winning engineer, international bestselling author, thought leader and philanthropist. He retired from Google as its Jolly Good Fellow at the age of 45. He is Chairman of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute and Co-chair of One Billion Acts of Peace, which has been nominated eight times for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is also Adjunct Professor at the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in the National University of Singapore. At Google, Meng led the creation of a groundbreaking mindfulness-based emotional intelligence course called Search Inside Yourself, which was featured on the front page of the Sunday Business section of the New York Times. Search Inside Yourself is also the title of Meng’s New York Times bestselling book which has been endorsed by world leaders such as President Carter of the United States, business leaders such as Eric Schmidt of Google and John Mackey of Whole Foods Markets, and spiritual leaders such as the Dalai Lama. Meng hopes Search Inside Yourself will eventually contribute to world peace in a meaningful way. Meng delivered a TED talk on compassion at the United Nations and spoke at the White House about the development of kindness. His personal motto is, “Life is too important to be taken seriously”. Meng hopes to see every workplace in the world become a drinking fountain for happiness and enlightenment.
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0:00.0 | What thought preceded just before, |
0:02.8 | that thought, I want to create a condition |
0:04.1 | that will be in my life time? |
0:06.0 | The thought was the sudden realization |
0:08.7 | that I was happy. |
0:10.7 | I mean, I was miserable, right, when it was young young and then I learned meditation and then I became happy and |
0:17.6 | so I was taking a walk and then suddenly I realized that in the past my base mind |
0:22.2 | happiness was misery. |
0:24.2 | Nothing happens I was miserable. |
0:26.2 | And then in a few short years my baseline happiness |
0:28.3 | is jolliness. |
0:30.3 | And it's like if I, like this whole flawed stupid word plus human being, I can do this. |
0:36.0 | Anybody can do this. |
0:38.0 | I mean, I definitely think anybody can do this. |
0:40.0 | And if everybody does this, it's created conditions for world peace. |
0:43.2 | All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. |
0:56.0 | I'm Michael Jervay. |
0:57.0 | And the idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery |
1:02.0 | so that we can better understand |
1:03.3 | how they've made sense of their craft |
1:06.0 | and how they've made sense of the world and themselves in it. |
1:09.3 | And we want to be able to pull back layers |
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