The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)
by Chademeng Tan
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“Pretty cool for leaders of companies because it talks about the business benefits of mindfulness.”
“Pretty cool for leaders of companies because it talks about the business benefits of mindfulness.”
Recommended by 4 notable people, including Arianna Huffington and Matt Mullenweg
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Reading Search Inside Yourself feels like a short corporate primer on mindfulness: conversational, example-driven, and focused on applying attention and emotional-awareness skills to work. The most useful parts are concrete breathing-and-attention instructions and short explanations tying those skills to teamwork, leadership, and stress management. Limits: the tone often leans toward upbeat confidence and workplace framing, so deeper theoretical nuance and sustained scientific detail are thin. Readers wanting rigorous research, philosophical depth, or long-form case studies may find it surface-level.
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With Search Inside Yourself, ChadeMeng Tan, one of Google's earliest engineers and personal growth pioneer, offers a proven method for enhancing mindfulness and emotional intelligence in life and work.Meng's job is to teach Google's best and brightest how to apply mindfulness techniques in the office and beyond; now, readers everywhere can get ins...
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Psychology, Personal Development, and Business.
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Consider The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Recommended by 8 sources.
“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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