Books by Chade-Meng Tan

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Search Inside Yourself

by Daniel Goleman, Chade-Meng Tan, Jon Kabat-Zinn
333 pages - - 3 MB New!

“Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)” is an invaluable guide to achieving your own best potential. Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman and Jon Kabat-Zinn are the authors of this beautiful book. It is a business book, but the material could easily be used for any situation that involves dealing with difficult people, including marriage. This book is written in a straightforward style, easy to digest for the newcomer. It is an excellent book that takes an engineering perspective to mindfulness. It makes one of the more compelling cases for committing to meditation as a lifestyle. Part anecdotal, part scientific, part humorous, Chade-Meng Tan did his absolute best to make mediation appealing to a broad audience. There are some very useful practical tips in the book that one can bring to practice for a better life, work, healthy relationship, de-stress and world peace around you. When it comes to mindfulness training in a corporate setting this book pioneered a new path to developing EI. After 10 years this programme continues to be the most popular and highly rated programme at Google and since establishing the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, it has spread well beyond Google. At SAP they’ve trained 6,500 people across 20 global locations and have a waitlist of 5,500. To conclude, Meng has managed to de-mystify mindfulness meditation and explain how and why is so necessary to keep us all sane in the modern world.

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Joy on Demand

by Chade-Meng Tan
333 pages - - New!

Joy is the root of happiness.Joy is a sustainable state that fuels our creativity and inspiration for innovation.  It strengthens our ability to attract friends and to get along with people.  Learning to cultivate joy is the fundamental secret to success. In this long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Search Inside Yourself, Chade-Meng Tan shows us how anyone, no matter where they are, can access this source of happiness.Meng writes, “If you have been unhappy, or you are happy and aspire to be even happier, know that your happiness set point can be upgraded. I know because I did it, I have seen many others do it, and scientific studies have measured it. Of course, Buddhist monks and other contemplative people have been doing it for thousands of years, but it’s not something in the water in the Himalayas, it’s something you can do too, wherever you are. I think the main problem is most people aren’t aware that it is even possible. Or, if we’ve heard of it, many of us think it is unattainable so we don’t even try. We don’t know it’s something that every single one of us can learn.”The path to joy on demand is through mindfulness, but it doesn’t have to be a lot of work, take a lot of time, or require you to abandon all your possessions and live in a hut on a remote island. In Joy on Demand, Chade-Meng Tan reveals the innate contentment that we all possess, and how to tap into this natural, infinite capacity for joy. The best part is that the benefits extend to every aspect of life—our brains work better, our bodies function better, we achieve greater success at work, and we find ourselves highly attractive to the people around us. The more we exercise this skill, the more familiar we become with joy, the more we effortlessly gravitate toward it, and in so doing create a sustainable sense of wonder and contentment that can carry us throughout our entire life. (Holding for applause.)