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  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

  • A Spiritual Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny
  • By: Robin Sharma
  • Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
  • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (517 ratings)

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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

By: Robin Sharma
Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
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Now published in over 70 languages, this number one international best seller gently offers answers to life's biggest questions as well as a practical process to help you create prosperity, vitality, happiness and inner peace.

This is the incredible story of Julian Mantle, a superstar lawyer whose out-of-balance lifestyle leads him to a near-fatal heart attack in a packed courtroom. His collapse brings on a spiritual crisis, forcing him to seek answers to life's most important questions.

Hoping to find happiness and fulfilment, he embarks upon an extraordinary odyssey to an ancient culture, where he discovers a powerful system to release the potential of his mind, body and soul, and learns to live with greater passion, purpose and peace.

Brilliantly blending the timeless spiritual wisdom of the East with the cutting-edge success principles of the West, this truly inspiring tale has shown millions of people around the world how to live with greater courage, balance, abundance and joy.

©1997 Robin Sharma (P)2017 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

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"A captivating story that teaches as it delights." (Paulo Coelho)

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Gawd.. please make it stop!

A friend recommended this book so I was originally looking forward to listening to it. But early on I began to doubt its authenticity. There's a point where Julian Mantle, whose 53 year old body has just had a massive heart attack, and performs like he's in his 70s, scales the Himalayan mountains by himself, despite the fact that the author has just explained that most fitter, more amply prepared climbers die doing so. And then, after just 7 days of searching, Mantle stumbles across a secret clan of monks who give him the secret of life. At this point I googled Julian Mantle and discovered he doesn't exist. From that point on the remainder of the book sounded ridiculous. I had to stop listening, it was just pissing me off.

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You can't afford the luxury of an original thought

After a friend told me that this book changed their life I thought I would read it. I struggled through half of it then gave it away. It was full of cliches and amaturish poetic writing. After a few years I tried again, thinking I must have missed something. Nope. This is up there with the worst self help book I've ever read. It's like a one word summary of all other self help books.
Book notes.
Put only good thoughts in. You can’t afford the luxury of a negative thought.
See the glass as half full.
Every negative experience has a valuable lesson in it for us.
To savour the good one must know the bad.
Practice creative visualisation.
Stop working at making a living. Instead work at making a life.
Words have power
The mind is a wonderful servant but terrible master.

The price of greatness is responsibility over your thoughts

If you want to live a more meaningful peaceful life then you need to think meaningful peaceful thoughts

All lasting change requires time and persistence
Luck is where preparation meets opportunity

The secret of happiness is to find what you love to do then spend your energy focussed on that. Then abundance flows.
Take the road less travelled
Meditate for 10 minutes per day.
Heard it all before but written in a far more interesting way by brilliant inspiring writers.

This book just felt fake and contrived.

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alright but full of cliches

was alright but I found the story was packed with too many cliches. my main gripe
1) doing what you're passionate about is BS. the market doesn't give a shit what you're passionate about - focus on others and solving problems - not on your own selfish passions.
2)you need a certain level of financial stability to be at peace. find me a happy person living in poverty that lives in a westernised country... no amount of mental gymnastics or meditation will make those with bad cash flow happy.

there were some decent points but I found the story and character development lacking.

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Incredibly impactful read!

This simple story condenses eastern life wisdom into a series of easy to understand steps, making these divine gems very accessible to an often skeptical Western audience.

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Great wisdom regardless of religion

This book provides Great wisdom regardless of religion and or background.
While having a eastern leaning in ideology and religion, I think there are jewels all could add to their own lives and political persuasion.
This is one of those books you keep in your library and reread from time to time.
Of course practicing it's principles daily is even better.

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Don’t do it!

Terrible!! Wish I’d read the reviews!
So contrived. It was bad from the beginning and never got any better.

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The best book I ever read!

I loved the 7 virtues and whole conversation between John and Julian. Simply amazing read

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Okay

I thought that it was ok. It was a bit too self helpie for my liking.
Lacked a little for my taste.

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Definitely Recommend

Great story of which I would definitely listen to again and recommend to other. Looking forward to reading/listening to more of Robin Sharma's books.

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It was okay.

Great principles and lessons in the book. Couldn't get into the way it was delivered as a conversation between 2 people. The narrator didn't change his pitch/voice or style much when changing between characters. 2nd half of the book was better than the 1st half.

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