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The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on ancient wisdom and new science.Nobody sits us down and teaches us how to love. So we're often thrown into relationships with nothing but romance movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until now. Instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable steps to help you develop the skills to practice and nurture love better than ever before. He shares insights on how to win or lose together, how to define love, and why you don't break in a break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles the entire relationship cycle, from first dates to moving in together to breaking up and starting over.
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Author Jay Shetty aims to elevate us from the negativity, anxiety, and hopelessness of today'sworld in his book THINK LIKE A MONK: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day, to bepublished by Simon and Schuster on April 14. Drawing on both Jay's experience as a monk in aHindu ashram and his post-monk life as an influential thinker and spiritual guide, Think Like aMonk distills monk wisdom into practical, everyday steps anyone can take to live a less anxious,more meaningful life.How can we transform our experience of life today? Jay says, "When I trained as a monk, Ifound that monks are able to remain centered and calm amid all the chaos that life throws atus. Monks are the absolute experts in mastering their minds. I wrote THINK LIKE A MONK inorder to help everyone access the same mindset, the same thinking patterns, the sameprocesses that help monks find peace, balance, and purpose."Like his monk teachers, Jay draws from the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred Indian text based on theUpanishads, writings from around 800-400 BCE. In a world where people are constantly lookingfor answers, Jay believes the wisdom for how to find peace and purpose has been here allalong.***Born in north London in 1987, Jay and his sister were raised in a middle-class Indian family.Until the age of 14, Jay did well in school, stayed out of trouble and tried his best to live up tohis parents' high expectations. But he was a shy, introverted young boy who was bullied forbeing overweight and a little nerdy. When he started secondary school, things changed. Hebegan playing soccer and rugby, became more popular, and started mixing with the wrongcrowd. Jay's thrill-seeking ventures got him suspended from school more than once as he triedto find his identity.By the time he got to college at Cass Business School in London in 2007, Jay had shifted hiscuriosity in more productive directions. He was reading autobiographies of everyone fromMalcolm X to David Beckham, driven to understand the roots of success and making adifference in the world. Still, when a friend invited him to hear a monk give a talk, he agreed togo only if his friend would join him at a club afterward.That night, the monk, Gauranga Das, spoke about the principle of self-sacrifice. He talked abouthow people should plant trees under whose shade they do not plan to sit. This was atransformative moment for Jay. He'd been focused on the success of people who'd gone fromnothing to something--rags-to-riches stories--but this man had done the opposite. And yet heappeared joyous, confident, and at peace. "He was saying that the greatest thing you can dowith your talents and your skills is to use them in the service of others," Shetty, now 32, toldPeople magazine. For Jay, this was a completely new idea of success.In the community where Jay grew up, it was expected that he would become one of threethings: a doctor, a lawyer, or a failure. When he headed to India to study with mo
