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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny
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Sales rank 8,968
Customers rating (based on 97 reviews)
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Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy. A wonderfully crafted fable, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture, he discovers powerful, wise, and practical lessons that teach us to: - Develop Joyful Thoughts,
- Follow Our Life's Mission and Calling,
- Cultivate Self-Discipline and Act Courageously,
- Value Time as Our Most Important Commodity,
- Nourish Our Relationships, and
- Live Fully, One Day at a Time.
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| Publisher | HarperOne | | Release date | 04/1999 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Paperback |
| | List price | $14.95 | | Our price | $11.66 (you save 22.01%) | | Used price | from $3.41 |
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 Enjoyed the book
After reading several negative reviews on the book, I confess to my positive reaction and therefor my bias.
The opening story line mimics modern and contemporary issues in my view. The character development touches on issues relevant to the meaninglessness and existential angst some feel over their materialistic life style choice. The book is a metaphor for those dealing with the same issues.
The protagonist of the book finds himself resoundingly successful, but his achievements lead him to a massive heart attack, unhappiness, and general malaise. As a consequence, he goes on a journey to find more lasting values based on traditional norms by traveling the world and meeting elders and sages along the way who impart time tested wisdom.
The book is structured as an adventure story and provides some valuable spiritual lessons in my view as the journey unfolds. The protagonist returns to his old association after being gone for a long time completely transformed. When he enters his old apprentice's office, his young friend does not even recognize his former legal mentor. It is only after careful scrutiny that it hits the younger man that this is his former legendary legal mentor!
Herein the narrative begins to address the purpose of the book seeking to impart spiritual values. This takes place by the conversations between mentor and protege sharing time tested wisdom.
While there is nothing new in the collected wisdom, the book provided a fast moving narrative that grabbed my interest and attention. And I think it a powerful reminder to reinforce this wisdom for anyone willing to move outside their comfort zones and engage modern spiritual principles for personal and planetary transformation.
If you are looking for a panacea, I would suggest you look elsewhere. But if you hold an open mind, you may find this book worthwhile.
Great read!
I love this book. It in some ways changed my life. Sounds cheesy, but it's true. The messages in it are so true and Robin Sharma makes it so simple to make small changes in your daily life to help relieve stress, look towards a better future, and reach your potential in any area of life. I think it will make me a better wife, mother, and help me with my career. I bought it so I can reread it over and over. Just amazing!
Jean
Moms Helping Moms Work From Home
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One of best most influential books I've ever read
This is a great book. Not a lot of new info but all the good stuff that we all forget, written in a quick wonderful little story. Especially love the summaries of important points at the end of each chapter. I read the book on a plane, closed it and wrote down a plan to start making some life changes and have followed through on at least 1/2 of them already. LOVED this book! Ordered 4 more for friends. Can't recommend it enough. Why haven't I heard of it sooner?
All that is important in life
Although you can find this wisdom in many other books, this is the most enjoyable story that distills from all religions what is important in life and how to put it to use in your life. Worth rereading, and I seldom say that.
 Pathetic writing skills; repeats famous quotes as his own; symbolisms used are really shallow if not useless
The author's story-telling is truly pathetic, wherein he develops a poorly constructed tale with really banal dialogue between the monk and his protege. His writing style is worse, which can probably be bettered by a junior high student. Here's an exercise- just count the number of times the author uses a variation of the following: "Julian knew he was on a roll". My guess, about 5.
- The author (through the 'monk') repeats famous quotes or principles as his own. An example: the Pareto principle becomes the 'Ancient Rule of Twenty'!
- The protege is contrived to be really clueless about some of the most common words of wisdom most of us know. The only thing worse than being fed well known quotes by the monk is the exaggerated amazement expressed by his protege upon hearing them.
Couple of examples:
: At one point the protege says: "Good grief. Julian had stumped me. I had no idea what the answer was." And the question? "How would you light a fire with a letter, a magnifying glass, a can of tuna and some dry kindling wood?"
Geez- my 7 year old niece could answer this without even thinking for a second!
: "...Enlightened people are priority driven. This is the secret of time mastery." "Wow. Yogi Raman taught you all that?"
Puhleez!
- symbolisms used are really bad and utterly pointless. Imagine a naked sumo wrestler fainting after wearing a gold watch then walking down a diamond-studded path after coming to. Now imagine this as the symbolism of this entire book that's supposed to inspire you for life!
I do like a few quotes in the book that I think might be original, although I'm not sure given how much more in the book is not:
- Things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, only then, in reality
- Luck ... is nothing more than the marriage of preparation with opportunity
- The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master
- Saying that you don't have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying you don't have time to stop for gas because you are too busy driving
- The mind can only hold one thought at a time ... (when an undesirable thought occupies the focal point of your mind, immediately replace it with an uplifting one)
- Once you make your goal known to the world, there will instantly be pressure on you to work towards its fulfillment since no one likes to look like a failure)
- If you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit
- Life doesn't always give you what you ask for, but it always gives you what you need
There. That should serve as a digest of the book with its best quotes. You can skip the book now!
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