Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)

Chade-Meng Tan · Daniel Goleman · Jon Kabat-Zinn

Apr 2012 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

Very superficial and the author keeps repeating himself but lacks practical tips on how to actually be happy. Richard Carlson's "Don't sweat the small stuff" is a much better read; every chapter draws on relatable every day experience that really helps readers reflect deep within themselves to find the heart felt enlightment of joy.

Nothing particularly novel here, which Meng will say himself, but for those seeking a refresher on Mindfulness/Meditation basics along with good supporting science this is a fun, digestible read. Meng's unique strength in this book is his ability to simply and clearly draw a thread between the 'what,' the so what,' the 'why/how' the mind works, how we can train it through meditation, and how that can bring personal happiness and create the conditions for world peace.

I guessed what this book meant before I read it, swallowed my phone, and just got it surgically removed 3 days ago. Not a good book. Left a scar on my stomach.

About the author

Chade-Meng Tan is an award-winning engineer, international bestselling author, thought leader, and philanthropist. He is cochair of One Billion Acts of Peace (nominated seven times for the Nobel Peace Prize) and founding chair of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. As the former Jolly Good Fellow at Google, Meng led the creation of a groundbreaking mindfulness-based emotional intelligence course called Search Inside Yourself, which is also the title of his New York Times bestselling book. Meng delivered a TED talk on compassion at the United Nations and spoke at the White House about the development of kindness. His personal motto is, “Life is too important to be taken seriously.”

Daniel Goleman, a former science journalist for the New York Times, is the author of thirteen books and lectures frequently to professional groups and business audiences and on college campuses. He cofounded the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois, at Chicago).