monk
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A member of a religious community of men who live apart from the world and promise to spend their lives in prayer and service.
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I'm Jay Shetty, the author of New York Times best-selling books Think Like a Monk and 8 Rules of Love.
Give Me 30 Mins and You’ll Rewire Your Brain to Never Overthink Again!In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the books I studied as a monk, it talks about how attachment and aversion are two sides of the same coin.
Give Me 30 Mins and You’ll Rewire Your Brain to Never Overthink Again!My monk teacher used to say, "If you want to move three steps forward, you have to go three steps deep."
Give Me 30 Mins and You’ll Rewire Your Brain to Never Overthink Again!You might want to try a monk mode morning.
6 tips to improve your work-life balance | BBC IdeasA guy called Cal Newport who's a professor at Georgetown University in Washington, he wrote a book called Deep Work and one of the ideas he gave was that we should think about having a monk mode morning.
6 tips to improve your work-life balance | BBC IdeasWell monk mode is where we go somewhere that is silent, there's no interruptions, we maybe get a block of ninety minutes work done, maybe twice a week, then we go to the office as normal; added advantages we've missed the commute, and got our emails and our meetings done.
6 tips to improve your work-life balance | BBC IdeasWhich is your favorite? Whichever one's on sale. I usually like monk fruit. Really? I used to do Splenda, but then I realized that maybe that's too much chemicals and that's not the best.
Testing The Most Extreme Ways to Lose Fat!And this is how you stay consistent over a long period of time and end up beating other people who are just being extreme on these monk mode sprints, right?
Being productive is easy, actually.The novice monk wasn't asked to sweep fast or to sweep the entire temple.
If you’re a lazy but ambitious student, please watch this video (seriously)It's the modern equivalent of the monk who notices his mind has left the stepping stone and without any drama comes back.
If you’re a lazy but ambitious student, please watch this video (seriously)
