Search Inside Yourself For Peace and Joy

Note to Self

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🗓️ 27 December 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Let’s create some calm as this year ends. It all starts with one deep breath, led by Google employee 107. This week, we revisit Manoush’s lovely interview with Chade-Meng Tan, who retired at 44 to meditate and search for world peace. Because these days, we sure need it.

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0:00.0	Still minutiair.
0:02.0	And as I was just saying,
0:04.0	we're days away from 2018
0:06.0	and this has been quite a year.
0:09.0	So last week in our Black Mirror Show,
0:12.0	we heard how our stories about reality
0:15.0	keep veering closer to dystopian TV fiction.
0:19.0	The news has not left much time for boredom this year
0:23.0	and it's sure created plenty of need
0:26.0	for creativity, for quiet, and kindness.
0:29.0	There's always a need for that.
0:31.0	So we want to end the year with the person
0:33.0	who helped us power through this year
0:36.0	with all those good things in our minds.
0:39.0	The most nourishing conversation we had this year,
0:42.0	full of kindness and mindfulness and productivity, of course.
0:47.0	This is an old favorite.
0:49.0	I hope one of yours too.
0:51.0	Happiness is a skewed, I acquire it.
0:55.0	I'd like to introduce you to Jade Mang Tan.
0:59.0	Everybody calls me Mang,
1:01.0	because in the US nobody can do names
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