Joy on Demand

The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within

By: Chade-Meng Tan

Narrated by: Telly Leung

A long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Search Inside Yourself shows us how to cultivate joy within the context of our fast-paced lives and explains why it is critical to creativity, innovation, confidence, and ultimately success in every arena.

In Joy on Demand, Chade-Meng Tan shows that you don’t need to meditate for hours, days, months or years to achieve lasting joy—you can actually get consistent access to it in as little as fifteen seconds. Explaining joy and meditation as complementary things that naturally reinforce each other, Meng explains how these two skills form a virtuous cycle, and once put into motion, become a solid practice that can be sustained in daily life.

For many years, meditation has been taught and practiced in cultures where almost all meditators practice full-time for years, resulting in training programs optimized for practitioners with lots of free time and not much else to do but develop profound mastery over the mind. Seeing a disconnect between the traditional practice and the modern world, the bestselling author and Google’s “Jolly Good Fellow” has developed a program, through “wise laziness,” to help readers meditate more efficiently and effectively. Meng shares the three pillars of joy (inner peace, insight, and happiness), why joy is the secret is to success, and demonstrates the practical tools anyone can use to cultivate it on demand.

Thank you Telly Leung for narrating this book

Thank you Chad-Meng Tan for writing this outstanding book. I throughly enjoyed this book. I laughed and understood.

Distilled actionable mindfulness

I've been a Zen Buddhist for 15 years and Chade is able to really distilled down a lot of really core pieces of my personal (also experiential) spiritual paths. Most of those are rooted in my years of wrangling with Buddhist philisophy.

Many people ask me for good ways to start, and this book has catapulted to the top of my recommended books. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Nice & accessible intro to meditation

I listened to the twice because it had so many tips for dealing with the runaway mind. I appreciated the simple loving kindness meditation best of all.

A Thorough Breakdown of Simplicity to Joy

A very thorough breakdown of mindfulness and meditation dispelling the notion of accessibility to the benefits of practice from beginner to expert.

Funny and useful

I really enjoyed this. I learned a lot of techniques and things about myself. I am looking forward to using the tools.