Shetty grew up in a family where you could become one of three things—a doctor, a lawyer, or a failure. His family was convinced he had chosen option three: instead of attending his college graduation ceremony, he headed to India to become a monk, to meditate every day for four to eight hours, and devote his life to helping others. After three years, one of his teachers told him that he would have more impact on the world if he left the monk’s path to share his experience and wisdom with others. Heavily in debt, and with no recognizable skills on his résumé, he moved back home in north London with his parents.

So I heard a lot of good about this book, but after reading this book I needed to say that the internet have fooled me again because this book is way overhyped when you look at the quality of this book.

The majority of this book talks about the author’s experience of being a monk and his life after returning to normal life. We get some self help advice here and there in this book but the majority focuses on the author’s thoughts, experience and challenges. I personally think that this book should be more a biography about the author rather than a self help book. I know it might be a very unpopular opinion here but thats my opinion.

The writing style in this book was very simple and easy going. Which really makes this book for everyone and not only people with a degree in psychology. Which really made me give this book some extra points.

But because of the majority of this book being about the author’s experience I didn’t like this book as I wanted to. Because before reading this book I had no idea who the author was so of course I didn’t have any interested in the author and still don’t have after reading this book. 

For the most part this book recycles what other self help books talked about, but it doesn’t do it in its own unique way but rather in a very generic way. So because of the recycling of information and basically the same topics as other self help books I took away some points from this book. 

I personally wouldn’t recommend this book because there are much better self help this book than this one. But for the most part this book way okay and not the worst I’ve seen in self help genre of books.

I Give This Book 3 / 5