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Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)
Written by Chade-Meng Tan
Narrated by Nick Sullivan
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About this audiobook
Chade-Meng 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 insider access to one of the most sought after classes in the country, a course in health, happiness and creativity that is improving the livelihood and productivity of those responsible for one of the most successful businesses in the world. With forewords by Daniel Goleman, author of the international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, and Jon Kabat-Zinn, renowned mindfulness expert and author of Coming To Our Senses, Meng’s Search Inside Yourself is an invaluable guide to achieving your own best potential.
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Chade-Meng Tan
Chade-Meng Tan is a Google pioneer, award-winning engineer, a New York Times bestselling author, a thought leader and a philanthropist. He still runs his life-changing mindfulness-based emotional intelligence course at Google.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Three words: Chade-Meng Tan. World peace is here now and all it took is for us to read a book. Who knew? Chade new.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book. I will surely listen to it again. Much love.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very inspirational & practically possible! Scientific & riveting. Superbly read by Nick. Thanks Jolly Good Fellow of Google for allowing a peep into Google & also through the Great Minds of our Contemporary World! U live up to your Name for Sure! Big thanks to Scribd, the facilitator!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Put on your Mindfulness and I am an employee (working for "the Man") List :-))
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One should really look inside than outside for the eternal peace and true search for wisdom
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I like the idea behind the book, but ultimately I think it tries to cover too much, with too little.
I'm familiarized with meditation and mindfulness, but I had zero knowledge about Emotional Intelligence. Yes, I've heard about the term, I know it created a lot of fuzz, especially in the corporate world, a few years back, but I've never read anything about EI. This is important because the book tries to teach mindfulness using EI as a framework, so to speak. But in my opinion, it fails as an introduction to EI, for somebody (like me) that has no idea about it.
The first part of the book deals with meditation and mindfulness, and it's a nice read, albeit a little too simplistic. It's a practical approach to mindfulness, and it tries to explain the science behind it, and I'm totally cool with that, but somehow it felt... short. Oversimplified. Not deep enough. People already familiarized with meditation has little to gain from the first half of the book, and for completely newbies it might spike their curiosity, and give them a starting point... but little more.
And then we have the second part of the book, which is more related to Emotional Intelligence, the use of mindfulness in a social context (especially in the workplace). To me it tries to cover a lot of things, and sometimes it assumes some Emotional Intelligence background, which I don't have.
Finally, I'm not particularly happy with the author (too much about himself and how a nice guy he is), his (forced) sense of humor, and his praise for all-things-Google. I get that his work was possible because Google somehow sponsored it and gave the author time to work on this, and the program was born inside Google, but I don't feel comfortable being reminded of that every other page or so. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Search inside yourself. The unexpected path to achieving success, happiness (and world peace) is just another book about meditation for managers, written in a goobldygook guru style, to veil its very obvious and simple content.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enjoyed this book, although I would have liked to spend more time actively progressing through it. Might end up reading it again.