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Zusatztext "Think of S.I.Y. as the Zen of Google." Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext From the Groundbreaking Course at Google Whether your intention is to reduce stress and increase well-being, heighten focus and creativity, become more optimistic and resilient, build fulfilling relationships, or just be successful, the skills provided by Search Inside Yourself will prove invaluable to you. Zusammenfassung With Search Inside Yourself , Chade-Meng Tan, one of Google’s earliest engineers and personal growth pioneer, offers a proven, science-backed 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 practical 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. Based on the wildly popular Google course, this practical guide offers proven, step-by-step exercises to help you: Attention Training: Learn to train your attention to create a quality of mind that is calm and clear, forming the foundation for all higher cognitive and emotional abilities. Self-Knowledge & Self-Mastery: Use your newly trained attention to observe your thought and emotional processes with high-resolution clarity, turning compulsion into choice. Practical Mindfulness: Discover simple, accessible exercises, developed for and stress-tested by Google’s best and brightest, to bring mindfulness into your work and life. Develop Self-Confidence: Go beyond theory with actionable techniques to build the deep self-knowledge that leads to sustainable, all-natural self-confidence. ...
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"Google engineer, Chade-Meng Tan's book 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
