The Buddha and the Badass

The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work

By: Vishen Lakhiani

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

New York Times, USA Today, and number one Wall Street Journal best seller • 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 best seller 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.

©2020 Vishen Lakhiani (P)2020 Random House Audio

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.

Absolutely Life Changing... Loved it!!

I am on my 5th time listening. Every time I listen I learn something new. The book has changed my life. It is a book where you read/listen, but in my opinion only benefit from it's content if you are committed to taking action and do the Exercises... that is when your life and business/work will thrive. The Code... Ex Mind was fabulous...an AWAKENING....this book just goes deeper on many of those teachings, but applies them to your work, job, or business. My only negative comment is that I missed Vishen reading the book... but this guy got better by the third time listening... lol

Challenges the world you think you know

A different perspective on how to "do life", challenges your beliefs and processes and really gets you thinking.

Soul Food

When I purchased this book, I had no idea it was on leadership and business. Truly, Divine Timing...every second stimulated my brain, and reminded me the soul has a greater mission beyond our comprehension.

A book on personal growth, healing, empowerment, radical mindset shiftinG, EGO dying, Matrix ending, etc.

It’s time for us to stop playing small, and operate from the heart & soul in all that we do...to empower the self/others, and shift the context of a conditioned society. De-colonize your schedule!

“Reality will reflect to you what you deeply believe” 🙇🏻‍♀️

Great ideas easy to implement for change

Absolutely loved the many ideas shared in this book and the examples and research supporting the proposed ideas. I love seeing more materials that encourage us that doing things the other way than we've known them to be, example setting goals to fail more than we would, is what will truly change our experiences in ourselves in our careers and workspaces. Thanks Vishen.

I would have preferred hearing Vishen's voice though, the reader's intonations were not so natural. But hey I got used to it and focused on the content.

Great Content! Look forward to the masterclass starting July 2nd!

Life Changing

Thank you for sharing such gifts and talents with the world. This book addressed all the areas/thoughts of uncertainty. I often felt crazy or unrealistic about experiencing all my loves of life. Now it’s time to OODA!!
I will share and gift this book to others!!
In deep gratitude and bliss,
Cindy♥️🙏🏻😇