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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
- 216 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1997
- 58 editions
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1 About this book
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is a self-help fable by the Canadian writer and speaker Robin Sharma, first published in 1997. Julian Mantle is a star trial lawyer whose overworked life ends when he collapses in a packed courtroom. He sells his holiday home and his red Ferrari and travels to the Himalayas, where a community of sages teaches him their way of living. Back home and transformed, he visits his friend and former colleague John and, in one long conversation, passes on what he learned: lessons on mastering the mind, finding a purpose, self-discipline, the use of time and living in the present.
- Personal growth
- Spiritual life
- Visionary & metaphysical
- Conduct of life
- Success
- Fables
- Succes
- Family life
2 What to expect
Self-help in the form of a fable: a burned-out lawyer gives up his career, studies with sages in the Himalayas and returns to teach a friend what he learned. Nearly all of it is one long conversation, in which the lessons arrive as symbols, lists and daily rituals for discipline, purpose and calm. The story is thin and the tone earnest and motivational, drawing loosely on Eastern spiritual traditions.
Good for readers who want: self-help told as a story, purpose and balance, and an easy, motivational read.
3 About Robin S. Sharma
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Robin S. Sharma
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