Jay Shetty: Learn to see the layers in everyone
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
"Why?” asks an insistent high school art teacher. “Why? Why? Why?” Staring blankly back, a young Jay Shetty has nothing to say. It’s an art project, it's just homework. A collage. It’s just … layers. The next day in a subway station, Jay's chance encounter with an ad peeling off the wall unlocks the truest answer. What he discovers that day about himself carries forward into college, when Jay meets a fellow student who's consumed by negativity and pain. There, the art project from so many years ago comes in handy in ways he never anticipates.
Read Jay Shetty's book Think Like a Monk (listen to Think Like a Monk as an audiobook read by Jay).
Jay hosts the podcast On Purpose with Jay Shetty.
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| 0:00.0 | Layer after layer I see ad after ad poking through. |
| 0:28.6 | Pops of color, fragments of letters. |
| 0:34.6 | Within those layers is the history of that one single space. |
| 0:41.6 | I start to think, what are my layers? |
| 1:03.1 | Jay Chetty is admired for his work as a podcaster to help wisdom spread in today's digital world. |
| 1:13.5 | Known for his ability to see the complexity in people, Jay shares a meditative story today about suspending judgment on others until he's able to see beyond the surface of first impressions. It's a story he is telling for the first time here. And if you follow Jay, |
| 1:20.9 | his first book, Think Like a Monk, may be of great interest. In this series, we combine |
| 1:27.1 | immersive first-person stories, breathtaking music, and |
| 1:32.3 | mindfulness prompts so that we may see our lives reflected back to us in other people's |
| 1:38.0 | stories, and that can lead to improvements in our own inner lives. |
| 1:44.8 | From Wait What, this is meditative story. |
| 1:51.1 | I'm Rohan, and I'll be your guide. The body relaxed. |
| 2:16.3 | The body relaxed. The body breathing. |
| 2:19.3 | Your senses open. |
| 2:22.3 | Your mind open. |
| 2:25.3 | Meeting the world. |
| 2:28.3 | The world. Why? Mr. Buckridge, my high school art teacher, waits for an answer to his question. |
| 2:56.3 | I'm silent. |
| 2:59.1 | Seconds feel like hours. |
| 3:03.1 | He continues. |
| 3:05.1 | Why do I see more of this and less of that? I'm frozen. |
| 3:18.2 | Staring at the piece of art that sits on the wooden desk in front of me, I want to respond, |
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