Episode-by-episode discussion of Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty — letting go, growing, and the daily practices that make any of it hold. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of The Grit Podcasts.
One chapter per episode, in the book's own order. Each episode stands on its own.
Eighteen, first year at Cass Business School, and Jay Shetty had no interest whatsoever — he went to hear CEOs and celebrities, people who had actually achieved something. He agreed on one condition. On stage was a man who had got into the MIT of India and walked away from all of it, and who was visibly the happiest person Shetty had ever been in a room with.
A sociologist wrote that line in 1902 and it has never stopped being true. Our self-image is not what we think of ourselves — it is our guess at someone else's opinion, and most self-improvement is just chasing that guess. Daniel Day-Lewis stayed in character so completely he caught pneumonia. We are all method acting; the difference is he knew the role had a name.
Lunch in a concrete courtyard with finance colleagues, sandwiches, and the whispered news that the partners had torn apart Gabe's presentation. Shetty flashes back to an ashram exercise: tally every criticism you speak or think, and write ten good things about that person for each one. It was hard. Seeing the ratio on the page is what changed how he saw his own faults.
The Bhagavad Gita opens on a battlefield with a warrior frozen. Arjuna has family on both sides and fear has cut him off from everything he can do — the exact thing that happens to us, scaled down. Fear is not the enemy here. It is a warning flag, and this chapter is about what you do in the second after it goes up.
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