The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)

CHADE-MENG TAN

Illustrations by Colin Goh

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Price	2.50
Pages	287 p
File Size	4,368 KB
File Type	PDF format
ISBN	978–0–06–211692–5 978–0–06–220456–1 (int’l)
Copyright©	2012 by Chade-Meng Tan

PRAISE FOR

Search Inside Yourself

“As human beings we are capable of positive change. Google engineer Chade-

Meng Tan’s book, Search Inside Yourself, which creatively blends the ancient

meditative practice of mindfulness with the contemporary field of emotional

intelligence, shows that to avoid certain kinds of results, you need to change the

conditions that give rise to them. If you change the habitual patterns of your

mind, you can change their resulting attitudes and emotions and find peace and

inner happiness.”

—His Holiness the Dalai Lama

“This is a book offering much good advice. I most appreciate Meng’s insight that

expressing compassion for others brings happiness to oneself as well.”

—Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States

“At a time when so many books are being published on such subjects as

leadership, strategy, governance, and other topics, I applaud Chade-Meng for

daring to undertake the writing of such a book on ‘emotional intelligence,’

within which lies the core essence of knowing oneself. The advice and practices

he offers will help improve all aspects of our lives and in the process lead to a

world where greater peace and happiness are possible.”

—S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore

“This book and the course it’s based on represent one of the greatest aspects of

Google’s culture—that one individual with a great idea can really change the

world.”

—Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google

“Meng is like a wise and humorous monk who will continue to inspire you for

years after you close the pages of his book. Written with the needs of today’s

world in mind, Search Inside Yourself offers practical and proven tools wrapped

in the gift of timeless wisdom.”

—John Mackey, co-chief executive officer and co-founder of Whole Foods Market

“Combining timeless wisdom with modern science, Chade-Meng Tan has

created an entertaining and practical guide to success and happiness.”

—Deepak Chopra

“Mahatma Gandhi said to turn the spotlight, the searchlight, inwards.

Meng has done it, showing us how to join him in following these peaceful

and profound, loving and compassionate footsteps in developing the mindfulbased

emotional wisdom that can help us be serene and feel in harmony, and

contribute to a better world. Practical, accessible, broad, and deep; with his Inner

Search tools, tips, techniques—and delightful illustrations—our friend has made

a truly awakening contribution to this troubled cacophonous Over-Information

Age. I heartily recommend it to all those aspiring to self-mastery, attention

training and focus, spiritual wisdom, and the joy-path of the wakeful life through

everyday enlightened living. Seek, and ye shall find. This book is one of the very

best places to start.”

—Lama Surya Das

“This book reveals a key part of the secret behind the success of Google. It is a

touchstone for those of us interested in revolutionizing the many outdated

institutions and systems in our country. Whether we are trying to create positive

change in education, health care, the corporate realm, or in our personal

relationships, Search Inside Yourself teaches us that external positive change can

only happen if we each individually spend time each day cultivating a better

understanding of our own inner world.”

—Tim Ryan, U.S. congressman and author of A Mindful Nation

“Full of humor and humility, wisdom and mindfulness, Chade-Meng Tan’s book

is a compelling read, but more importantly, it’s a valuable operating manual for

living a good life. Rarely have I read a book that’s full of so much intelligence

and emotion. I want to be Meng when I grow up!”

—Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels and author of Emotional Equations

“Search Inside Yourself is a practical guide to the fundamentals of emotional

intelligence. This book has the potential to change lives and deliver happiness.”

—Tony Hsieh, New York Times bestselling author of Delivering Happiness

and CEO of Zappos

“Chade-Meng Tan has a voice that modern people can readily listen to:

consciousness informed with science. More than that, he has something to say of

real importance for our time—that global peace depends on the personal

experience that meditation leads to. Old wisdom is presented here with a

provocative and startling freshness. The way to enlightenment begins with

waking up. Meng is doing this with passion, humor, and generosity of mind.

This is a book to read, share, laugh with, and celebrate.”

—Father Laurence Freeman, OSB, director of the World Community for

Christian Meditation

“There is more to be discovered inside of ourselves than we will ever find by

searching anywhere else, and the challenge is in learning how to look. In a

simple and plainspoken way, Meng has crafted an elegant invitation we can all

use to take that journey.”

—Scott Kriens, chairman of Juniper Networks and director of 1440 Foundation

“Meng inspires all with his modesty, humor, intelligence, and—dare I say it?—

love. Meeting Meng, I experienced a kind of radiant vicarious love. In this book,

you too can have a vicarious love affair with some of Meng’s spiritual friends:

wisdom, compassion, and equanimity.

Meng shows you where the tools are hidden inside of you, mapping your

way with the precise logic of an engineer, encouraging you with the compassion

of a longtime meditator, and in an ironic twist, seducing you to press ‘pause’ on

the incessant drone of technology and modernity in the outside world, just long

enough to find joy within you in the ancient wisdom, on the path eternal.”

—Larry Brilliant, president of the Skoll Global Threats Fund

“Chade-Meng has written an excellent book that should be read by everyone.

This great work restores emotional intelligence and its underlying traits,

compassion, awareness, and empathy, or at least underscores the need for these

attributes in our society. It is no surprise that the best venture capitalists and

entrepreneurs I know all possess the attributes that Chade-Meng alludes to. In

my opinion, this is one of the best works ever in personal development and a

refreshing change from so much verbiage out there in other works. Read this

book, and it will profoundly change your life.”

—Tan Yinglan, author of The Way of the VC and Chinnovation

“I began reading his book with a somewhat patronizing attitude, like an uncle

going through a nephew’s writings. As I leafed through the pages, I found

myself sitting up, poring over the words more carefully and reflecting on what

he had to say with increasing seriousness. When I visited Qom a couple of years

ago, a Grand Ayatollah gave as his parting words to me: May you find what you

seek. I have long thought about what the Grand Ayatollah said. Chade-Meng’s

book has pointed me in the right direction.”

—Brigadier-General George Yeo, former minister for foreign affairs, Singapore

Attention Training

Attention is the basis of all higher cognitive and emotional abilities. Therefore,

any curriculum for training emotional intelligence has to begin with attention

training. The idea is to train attention to create a quality of mind that is calm and

clear at the same time. That quality of mind forms the foundation for emotional

intelligence.

Self-Knowledge and Self-Mastery

Use your trained attention to create high-resolution perception into your own

cognitive and emotive processes. With that, you become able to observe your

thought stream and the process of emotion with high clarity, and to do so

objectively from a third-person perspective. Once you can do that, you create the

type of deep self-knowledge that eventually enables self-mastery.

Creating Useful Mental Habits

Imagine whenever you meet anybody, your habitual, instinctive first thought is, I

wish for this person to be happy. Having such habits changes everything at

work, because this sincere goodwill is picked up unconsciously by others, and

you create the type of trust that leads to highly productive collaborations. Such

habits can be volitionally trained.

In creating Search Inside Yourself, we collected some of the best scientific

data and gathered some of the best minds on the topic to create a curriculum that

is proven to work. You will not want to miss this; it may change your life. Like, seriously.

I am confident that this book will be a valuable resource for you as you

embark on your exciting journey. I hope your journey will be fun and profitable.

And, yes, that it will contribute to world peace too.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Foreword by Daniel Goleman

Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Introduction: Searching Inside Yourself

One: Even an Engineer Can Thrive on Emotional Intelligence

Two: Breathing as if Your Life Depends on It

Three: Mindfulness Without Butt on Cushion

Four: All-Natural, Organic Self-Confidence

Five: Riding Your Emotions like a Horse

Six: Making Profits, Rowing Across Oceans, and Changing the World

Seven: Empathy and the Monkey Business of Brain Tangos

Eight: Being Effective and Loved at the Same Time

Nine: Three Easy Steps to World Peace

Epilogue: Save the World in Your Free Time

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes

Search Inside Yourself

The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)

CHADE-MENG TAN

Illustrations by Colin Goh

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