Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) – Google's Proven Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Guide

This guy is absolutely hilarious! According to the forward in the book by one of the leading pioneers of mindfulness named Jon Kabat-Zinn, Meng carry's around a business card that says "The jolly good fellow of Google (which nobody can deny)." Meng designed a meditation system at Google; to make the practice more accessible to people, he calls it, "Search Inside Yourself" its designed to work on three things. 1. Attention training 2. Self-knowledge and self-mastery 3. Creating useful mental habits. This books is full of ways to incorporate mindfulness into your life, he explains in-depth how to manage harmful emotions with mindfulness. It also contains a great deal of science backing up all of his claims, not to mention the book contains personal testimonials from other Google employees, about how a mindfulness practice has influence their life. As he says in the book about creating useful mental habits, " Imagine whenever you meet anybody, your habitual, instinctive first thought is, I wish for this person to be happy. Having such habits changes everything at work, because this sincere goodwill is picked up unconsciously by others." This is one hundred percent possible by incorporating a consistent mediate practice into your life similar to the one laid out in this book. America is ranked very low in the level of happiness on several recent polls and studies. This is something that bothers me, and I would generally like to see more people partaking in any type of available meditation practice or a practice that is similar to Search Inside Yourself even if they only incorporate five to ten minutes a day. I've been mediating for close to a decade, and I spend four hours a day doing it, because I think it's the most incredible tool for consistent states of happiness. Meng also explains how emotional intelligence is one of the best predictors of success and fulfillment in life. He outlines several mindfulness strategies in the book to work on your emotional intelligence. This book is a wonderful introduction to mindfulness, as well as a great book for advanced practitioners.

Excellent Book that takes an Engineering Prospective to Mindfulness! This was one of my first exposures to mindfulness, and it was refreshing to find something that spoke my language. Instead of all the mystical BS, Medical Jargon, or Boring long winded words that make no sense, the book explained why Mindfulness works, and how you can use it. The book is based on a course that was internally developed at Google, called Search Inside Yourself. This has now Branched into an outside organization, called Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, or SIYLI. Cheng-Meng Tan was the one that pioneered the course, and later institute. And he has serious programmer chops. What I have found is there are two different schools of Mindfulness. They both have similarities, but they have a bit difference approach. - Medical as a way to reduce pain. the idea being you get rid of future and past pain, by focusing only on the present pain. You have now reduced your pain by 2/3rds! Jon Kabat-Zinn is the god father of this movement, and his classic book is Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness - Buddhist, that often has a more mystical point of view. Your breath is often the focus, but there is a philosophy behind it. I have attended a Medical type mindfulness class, as well as one by SIYLI, and a couple of meditation retreats by a Buddhist Monk Bhante Yogavacara Rahula, who has an amazing past, and a few other seminars including one by Jeremy Hunter of the Drucker School of Management. They all have had value, but the book Search Inside Yourself explained the why, which made it click. Mindfulness has been an excellent tool for reducing stress. I view it as giving your brain a mental break, which helps a tremendous amount and your mind is a muscle, and it needs exercising. Mindfulness is a great way to exercise your brain!

I write about and teach meditation. As a result, many people ask me for a good, easy-to-read guides for beginners. I'm happy I stumbled over Search Inside Yourself on a bookstore table because it delivers. The author adapts several standard Buddhist meditations for the work setting. Another reviewer (perhaps also a Dharma teacher) on another site criticized the simplification of the meditations and advice, but I disagree with her. I think this "business-lite," as she called it, is brilliant, and it will help to do what we all want: to spread the message and help ease more suffering for more people. The author does a wonderful job of making these teachings accessible for a specific audience: people who suffer at work. He blends Dharma teachings (never really calling them Dharma, though) with the fields of psychology, specifically emotional intelligence. The book is an easy read and left me with several take-aways, even though I've been meditating for years. This is a business book, but the material could easily be used for any situation that involves dealing with difficult people, including marriage. It's a wonderful resource, one that I highly recommend.

Really, really good book. I bought the kindle version but was not able to keep on reading it. So I decided on the audio version and enjoyed every minute of the book (even though many people complain about the narrator...it did not bother me) and finally, I decided to buy the printed version so I could write my observations on it as I like. It has a lot of exercises and the explanations and links with the "real" life makes a lot of sense. Loved it! Now, I plan to attend the training as well. :-)

El un libro que recomiendo ampliamente, por su contenido de invaluable conocimiento que transmite, además de contener un proceso interpersonal que ayuda al crecimiento personal en todos los sentidos. Les recomiendo vivan la experiencia de infinita sabiduría aie este libro les proporcionará. En cuanto al estado en que me llego, fue perfecto sin daños y muy bien embalado para protegerlo, además fue muy rápido y llego antes de lo esperado. Estoy muy satisfecha con esta compra. Se los recomiendo ampliamente.

Would recommend to anyone at any point in their careers or life. So much good, practical advice along with the science behind meditation practices.

Absolutely brilliant - as a technologist and into mindfulness this was a powerful book by the Jolly Good Fellow!

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