Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)
- 3h 58m
- Chade-Meng Tan
- HarperCollins
- 2012
With Search Inside Yourself, 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.
About the Author
Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is Google's Jolly Good Fellow (which nobody can deny). Meng was one of Google's earliest engineers. Among many other things, he helped build Google's first mobile search service, and headed the team that kept a vigilant eye on Google's search quality. His current job description is, "Enlighten minds, open hearts, create world peace".
Outside of Google, Meng is the Founder and (Jolly Good) President of the Tan Teo Charitable Foundation, a small foundation dedicated to promoting Peace, Liberty and Enlightenment in the world. He is a Founding Patron of Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). He is also a Founding Patron of the World Peace Festival, and adviser to a number of technology start-ups.
Meng earned his MS in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He went to Santa Barbara mainly for the beach, but didn't mind the graduate degree either. He considers himself a Buddhist "on most weekdays, especially Mondays". He is an avid meditator, because meditation facilitates in him inner peace and happiness "without doing real work". Meng occasionally finds himself featured on newspapers. He was featured on the front page of the New York Times and delivered a TED talk at the United Nations. He has met three United States Presidents, Obama, Clinton and Carter. The Dalai Lama gave him a hug for his 40th birthday. His personal motto is, "Life is too important to be taken seriously".
Meng hopes to see every workplace in the world become a drinking fountain for happiness and enlightenment. When Meng grows up, he wants to save the world, and have lots of fun and laughter doing it. He feels if something is no laughing matter, it is probably not worth doing.
In this Book
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Even an Engineer Can Thrive on Emotional Intelligence—What Emotional Intelligence Is and How to Develop It
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Breathing as if Your Life Depends on It—The Theory and Practice of Mindfulness Meditation
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Mindfulness Without Butt on Cushion—Extending the Benefits of Mindfulness beyond Sitting
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All-Natural, Organic Self-Confidence—Self-Awareness That Leads to Self-Confidence
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Riding Your Emotions Like a Horse—Developing Self-Mastery
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Making Profits, Rowing Across Oceans, and Changing the World—The Art of Self-Motivation
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Empathy and the Monkey Business of Brain Tangos—Developing Empathy Through Understanding and Connecting with Others
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Being Effective and Loved at the Same Time—Leadership and Social Skills
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Three Easy Steps to World Peace—The Story behind Search inside Yourself
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Epilogue—Save the World in Your Free Time
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Notes
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