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About Robin Sharma
Robin Sharma is considered one of the top 5 leadership experts worldwide. He is also the author of the bestselling books, The 5 AM Club and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. Robin is admired by some of the world’s most successful people. He has advised rock stars, royalty, billionaires, and celebrity CEOs. Robin quit his career as a lawyer at the age of 25 to pursue stress management and spirituality.

Introduction
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is about a fictional character named Julian Mantle. Julian is a successful lawyer but is struggling with stress and work pressure. He finally decides to leave his previous baggage and luxurious life behind and travel to the Himalayan Mountains. Julian travels there in search of peace. After arriving, he encounters Yogi Raman. Yogi Raman offers Julian seven virtues for him to obtain enlightenment. After a few months, Julian returns and narrates all the teachings of Yogi Raman.

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari mainly describes the Seven Virtues required for a life of inner peace, joy, and a wealth of spiritual gifts.

The Seven Virtues of Enlightened Living
Virtue One – Master Your Mind
The first principle is associated with the magnificent garden. The magnificent garden is a metaphor for our brain. We need to cultivate our minds like a gardener cultivates a magnificent garden. Sowing good seeds will eventually produce tasty fruits and beautiful flowers. Improve your quality of life by improving your quality of thoughts. It’s impossible to remove negative thoughts from your mind completely. Letting your negative thoughts take over is equivalent to under-watering your plants and leaving all your trash in your garden. However, you can decide to substitute them with positive thoughts when they arise. Sharma offers kindness, love, and empathy as examples of positive thoughts you can choose to adopt. Subsequently, you should develop a sense of inner peace.

It is essential to have goals and reach high levels of potential. However, it is also crucial to value the journey and appreciate what you have right now. This is particularly relevant in modern society. We live in a world where we are bombarded with stimuli from all directions. These stimuli embed themselves in your subconscious mind, whether you’re aware of it or not. We have to choose consciously what type of information we want to allow into our minds.

Robin Sharma highlights that mistakes do not exist. Instead, these so-called mistakes are merely lessons to learn from. He encourages readers to reinforce their self-appreciation and self-respect. Gratitude for yourself and the world that you live in will allow you to learn from every experience, as you will be constantly using them as lessons.

Techniques to Master Your Mind
Sharma recommends you pick up an actual rose for this technique. Obtain a fresh rose and sit in a silent place. Then, start staring at the center of the rose. Notice the color, texture, and design of the rose. Your mind may wander away at first, but this is just a sign of an untrained mind. Do not worry about your wandering mind, and simply return your attention to the rose. If you practice this form of meditation daily, you will grow strong and disciplined. Robin Sharma recommends spending 10-20 minutes per day performing this technique.

Sages, who are enlightened men within Chinese Buddhism, have utilized this technique. The sages would stare into the waters of the still lake and envision their dreams becoming a reality. Everything is created twice. First, in the mind, and then it is realized in a physical form. We can visualize everything that we want to be, do, or have.

Virtue Two – Follow your purpose
“The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Once you do this, abundance flows into your life and all your desires are filled with ease and grace.”

– ROBIN SHARMA
Sharma uses the analogy of a lighthouse to explain the idea of following your purpose. A lighthouse aims to show people the right direction. Similarly, we need to choose the right path in our lives. However, you can only find the right path if you know your destination. Your destination is your purpose.

Happiness comes from achievement. However, without goal setting, you will not achieve anything. Find the purpose of your life, make goals, and write them down on a piece of paper. Sharma believes that unwritten goals are not actually goals.