The book successfully lays out a route for living a more peaceful and fulfilled life. Shetty, on the other hand, offers tips and exercises for reducing stress, improving self-discipline and attention, and maintaining relationships in today’s society.Ī post shared by Jay Shetty to live life peacefully It might be difficult to adapt monks’ lessons to modern life. ‘Think Like a Monk’ teaches you how to overcome negative ideas, reach calm, and create meaningful purpose in order to realize your full potential. The goal of this book is to assist people in adopting a monk attitude in their daily life. The book Think Like a Monk combines deep wisdom with Jay Shetty’s personal experiences. He does, however, want to assist individuals in adapting the monastic attitude to modern city life.īook Review Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty Jay would devote half of his day to personal development and the other half to assisting others. He would meditate for 4 to 8 hours each day. every day, take cold baths, meditate, and eat. He spent three years as a monk traveling around India and Europe when he was 22 years old. Jay began to redefine success for himself, and he desired to help others. When Jay was 18 years old, he met a monk who transformed his life. Jay Shetty’s Inspiration behind the book Think Like a Monk? In addition, Jay was selected to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. He now has over 20 million followers worldwide and has had over four billion views on YouTube in only four years.
Jay started his YouTube channel in 2016 with the goal of sharing wisdom videos. Jay Shetty is a host, viral content producer, motivational speaker, and author who has won several awards. “In Today’s World, the Well-Rested Lose Respect.” NPR, NPR, 17 Jan. In Think Like a Monk, Shetty dives deep into routines and how to take baby steps that take you from overwhelmed and stressed to living productively.ġ. When we look at routines as the vehicle to have better days with less stress, we can begin taking small steps to change our routines and adapt to a more productive environment. This allowed the monks to create peace and calm even in the disquiet of the outside world.” “We trained ourselves to sustain that deliberateness and focus all day long. “In the ashram, we started each morning in the spirit of the day we planned to have,” writes Jay Shetty. When we overload our brains with so much information – and most of it negative – how can we expect ourselves to have a good, productive day? As humans, we are not built for that kind of sudden transition. “A majority of people go from out cold to processing mountains of information within minutes every morning,” writes Jay Shetty. We reach for our phones as soon as we wake up. There’s one other thing many of us start our days with that is practically built into our lives. Not getting enough sleep isn’t the only part of our routine we’re getting wrong. Our society has taught us that getting as little sleep as possible and still functioning is somehow a badge of honor 1. Jay Shetty believes this is why many of us are addicted to hitting the snooze button. It can be easy to think, “I could never wake up that early!” Many times, we try to wake up before our bodies are ready, and the hormone that aids sleep, melatonin, is still at work in our bodies. Spending time in the ashram and adjusting to a new routine allowed him to wake feeling he had taken a mental shower. It was a welcome change that had a positive impact on more than just his physical health.
As a monk, he woke up peacefully to the sounds of nature with a sense of peace and tranquility. In his early days as a teen and young adult, he had to be awakened either by his mother or an alarm clock.Įverything changed in the ashram, however. “I’d spent my life pushing the limits of each day, sacrificing tomorrow because I didn’t want to miss out on today,” Jay Shetty writes. He quickly discovered the secret to changing his morning routine – going to sleep earlier. It wasn’t an easy shift at first, but he knew it was important. In Chapter 6 of Think Like a Monk, Jay Shetty explores how he had to develop and adapt his lifestyle to meet the routine and expectations in the ashram. How much thought do we give to how our routines are serving us now? That need follows us into adulthood, although we tend to lose sight of it somewhere along the way. From the time we’re children, we crave routines. They can also have a massive impact on our day-to-day stress and anxiety levels. Routines are important to help us get through life’s ups and downs.
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