How to Think Like a Monk – Jay Shetty with Dave Asprey : 739

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🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

For this special episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’m going to ask you to tune in for a while longer. I think you’ll really like what you hear.

My guest is Jay Shetty, a British-born former monk who never expected to meet a monk, let alone become one. “It's really humbling and ironic when you go to something expecting nothing and it becomes one of the biggest life changing moments of your life,” he says.

Now an award-winning viral content creator, storyteller and experiment maker (but no longer a monk), he’s created over 400 viral videos that have received over 7.5 billion views. He also hosts the popular “On Purpose” podcast and has just written a brand new book, “Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day.”

“The book is full of studies and research and science behind monks’ brains that have meditated for far longer than I have,” Jay says. “For me, it was my fascination with monk culture that made me want to write this book, less than my own experience of three years.”

In our conversation, he reflects on his monk’s training and explains how you can find your own peace and purpose. “If I can help people tap into their unique superpower and dharma, then the world will be a better place.”

“”Think Like a Monk” is such an important message right now,” Jay says “You don't have to live like a monk to think like a monk, because it is a change of mindset. The monk mind is of compassion, love, non-judgment, kindness. I feel like that's what so many of the people we know are striving for and aspiring for. I felt this is the right time to help us reset our mindset.”

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0:00.0	This is a special long edition of Bullproof Radio. This is a fascinating conversation with Jay
0:06.3	Shetty who just wrote Think Like A Monk. And we actually get to go deep today where we talk about
0:11.5	all kinds of stuff that you might not normally hear in an interview about a book, like really what's
0:16.0	going on inside amongst head. And it just went along because it was fascinating. I was interested
0:20.5	and he takes some of life's lessons, some things that are pretty well known in the circles of
0:25.2	personal development. And he restates them and massages them and relies on his training as a
0:31.2	monk. And then takes them out to share the ancient wisdom of personal development and growth
0:37.0	and spirituality with a huge number of people, which is part of his goal. So we go through some of
0:42.0	that here, but really we go a little bit deeper into what it's really like, what his experience
0:45.8	was like as a monk. This is a fascinating story with tons of nuggets about how to do specific
0:51.2	things that he's learned how to do as he progressed both as an entrepreneur and as a human being.
0:56.6	So there's hands-on activities that you can do throughout this interview. Listen to the whole
1:01.0	thing. It's totally worth the extra time. I had a lot of fun recording. Bullproof Radio, a state
1:08.0	of high performance. You're listening to Bullproof Radio with Dave Asprey. Today's guests on the show
1:15.3	almost doesn't really even need an introduction, although you might not know who he is. And
1:20.9	his name is Jay Shetty. He's a British-born former monk who shares practical wisdom in a way that
1:29.0	you probably can't miss if you're on Instagram or YouTube or Facebook. He's got 400 viral videos with
1:35.0	seven and a half billion views and a podcast called On Purpose, on which I've been a guest, and
1:41.6	has a new book called Think Like a Monk. Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day. And I
1:47.1	want to have Jay on for you today because he's really interesting guy. People who've been trained
1:53.1	at monk things and then come out into the public sphere and it's very different lives. And I know
1:58.9	you guys to understand what he's teaching in his book because there's actually great value for you.
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