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    Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within
    Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within
    Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within
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    Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within

    By Chade-Meng Tan

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    A long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Search Inside Yourself shows us how to cultivate joy within the context of our fast-paced lives and explains why it is critical to creativity, innovation, confidence, and ultimately success in every arena.

    In Joy on Demand, Chade-Meng Tan shows that you don’t need to meditate for hours, days, months or years to achieve lasting joy—you can actually get consistent access to it in as little as fifteen seconds. Explaining joy and meditation as complementary things that naturally reinforce each other, Meng explains how these two skills form a virtuous cycle, and once put into motion, become a solid practice that can be sustained in daily life.

    For many years, meditation has been taught and practiced in cultures where almost all meditators practice full-time for years, resulting in training programs optimized for practitioners with lots of free time and not much else to do but develop profound mastery over the mind. Seeing a disconnect between the traditional practice and the modern world, the bestselling author and Google’s “Jolly Good Fellow” has developed a program, through “wise laziness,” to help readers meditate more efficiently and effectively. Meng shares the three pillars of joy (inner peace, insight, and happiness), why joy is the secret is to success, and demonstrates the practical tools anyone can use to cultivate it on demand.

    Editor's Note

    Meditation within reach…

    This follow-up to the bestselling “Search Inside Yourself” makes mindfulness meditation even easier to begin. A must-read for anyone hoping to fast-forward to the deep well of joy that comes from a consistent meditation practice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 31, 2016
    ISBN9780062378941
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    Chade-Meng Tan

    Chade-Meng Tan is a Google pioneer, award-winning engineer, a New York Times bestselling author, a thought leader and a philanthropist. He still runs his life-changing mindfulness-based emotional intelligence course at Google.

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