The Buddha and the Badass

The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work

By: Vishen Lakhiani

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • Forget hustling. This book, from the author of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, will disrupt your deeply held beliefs about work, success, and, indeed, life.

If you’re the average person in the developed world, you spend 70 percent of your waking hours at work. And if you’re the average person, you’re miserable for most of those hours. This is simply not an acceptable state of affairs for your one shot at life. No matter your station, you possess incredible unique powers. It’s a modern myth that hard work and hustle are the paths to success. Inside you is a soul. And once you unleash it fully into the domain of work, magic happens. Awakening the Buddha and the Badass inside you is a process that will disrupt the way you work altogether. You’ll gain access to tools that bend the very rules of reality.

• The Buddha is the archetype of the spiritual master. The person who can live in this world but also move with an ease, grace, and flow that comes from inner awareness and alignment.
• The Badass is the archetype of the changemaker. This is the person who is out there creating change, building, coding, writing, inventing, leading. The badass represents the benevolent disruptor—the person challenging the norms so we can be better as a species.

Once you integrate the skill sets of both archetypes, you will experience life at a different level from most people. You will operate from a space of bliss, ease, inspiration, and abundance. The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work will show you how. Author of the New York Times bestseller The Code of the Extraordinary Mind and founder of Mindvalley, Vishen Lakhiani has turned his own life and company into his research lab. He’s codified everything he’s learned into the how-to steps in this book. The Buddha and the Badass teaches you how to master your work and your life.

Many clever new and inšpiratívne ideas..

However eg in my country there are not many people who would be able to absorb, understand and live upon... I struggle with so fixed mindset population not even considering that sth like ideas, realities described in this book exist.. It's so sad.. Hard to even you those due and build my own business based on them... But wonderful for personal growth..

Great book

Loves this book.
So damn practical and inspiring, gets you ready to improving your life with a wide vision

Transformational

I came across this book accidentally… or maybe not :)

One of the best books I have read and I wish I had come across it many years ago.

How to Progress in the Current World State

I am going to get my gripe out of the way, Vishen should have read this. The narration felt like Alexa reading a book. Vishen is vibrant and has a unique cadence that brings his words to life which makes it easy to connect to what is being said.

I think this book is good for anyone looking to create in the world today. I listened through front to back. I found it helpful from a personal and professional stand point - who am I being and is it aligning with the goals I have set forth. Am I really making the difference I want. Am I impacting those around me the way I want. Am I really being true to myself.

I like how Vishen subtlety rocks the boat by questioning traditions or what's of thinking that no longer align with the fast performing world of today. If you are not true to you then you will sink and when you are at the bottom wondering why, the question becomes; where these your choices for you or where you emulating what others wanted and trying to fit in.

Outstanding

This is one of the best business books I’ve encountered. The nuggets of wisdom are through the roof.