The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is a glorious fable which indicates about how to fulfill dreams & reach a destiny. This is a book that's gonna make you give some thought about your life, your goals, your dreams and how you can just conquer all of them with your habits. In other words, this book is a programmed version of Zen Habits
What's The Fable
The book takes the form of a fable about Julian Mantle, a high-profile attorney with a crazy schedule and a set of priorities that center around money, power and prestige. As such, Mantle represents the values of our society. The story is told from the perspective of one of his associates, who admires Mantle’s great success and aspires to be like him.
But when Mantle has a heart attack, he drops out of the game and disappears. He sells all his possessions and goes to India to seek a more meaningful existence. When he comes back, he’s a changed man. Really, it’s as if he’s a completely different person. He’s learned from some mythical Himalayan gurus who give him mystical and yet practical advice, which he shares with his former associate (and the reader).
The Learnings: 7 Virtues
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Master your mind
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Follow your purpose
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Practice kaizen
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Live with discipline
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Respect your time
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Selflessly serve others
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Embrace the present
These virtues are discussed in some detail in separate chapters, each of them with a number of concepts and habits to develop. Most of them are very inspiring and overall very useful. While reading the book, I could feel several of them adding up into my life. Positive thinking and visualizing my goals were the ones I could literally see forming inside me.
Final Thoughts:
Although the subject matter of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari hs been discussed so many times in various books but the book presents them in such a practical way that you would accept them to be a part of your life. For this reason I enjoyed it a lot and was highly inspired by it.
This book is for anyone who is interested in incorporating routines and habits that can transform their lives, help them achieve their dreams, calm them and make them more happy. Yes, it’s a jumble of too many ideas, but you can pick and choose, and the ideas contained within are potentially very powerful. Plus, it’s a fun and easy read.