Know Yourself, Forget Yourself: The Paradoxical Path to Increasing Effectiveness, Awakening Joy, and Discovering Your Life's Purpose

Marc Lesser

ISBN 10: 1608680819 / ISBN 13: 9781608680818

Editore: New World Library

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"Teaches five core competencies for success and fulfillment (attention, outlook, action, resilience, and effectiveness) by examining five pairs of contradictory truths. Author has worked as the director of the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, CEO of Brush Dance, and as an executive coach"--Provided by publisher.

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Zen monk Lesser makes a case for embracing paradoxes to succeed in every arena in life....This compassionate and sage tome...is likely to help many make life-enhancing changes.”
Publishers Weekly

Cognitive dissonance has never felt so pure and poetic. Full of wise irony and simple truths, this book is a treasure for the ages.”
Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels and author of Emotional Equations

An illuminating and insightful book.”
Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness

Marc Lesser shows us a path through the contradictions within us....A wonderful and profound book.”
Van Jones, president of Rebuild the Dream

After a lifetime of Zen study, Marc Lesser has distilled the life lessons of Buddhist practice into sane, eminently useful, result-oriented procedures that will cut through confusion, anxiety, and self-defeating behaviors....I can’t recommend this book highly enough.”
Peter Coyote (Hosho Jishi), actor, writer, and Zen priest

In our work together at Google, I have seen firsthand Marc’s extraordinary melding of Zen teacher and business leader, a combination that some people might consider a contradiction. Now in this extraordinary book, Marc shows us not only that contradictions are everywhere, but that embracing them can actually make us happier!”
Chade-Meng Tan, Google’s Jolly Good Fellow and bestselling author of Search Inside Yourself

Know Yourself, Forget Yourself is a treasure trove of applied wisdom.”
Joan Halifax, founding abbot of Upaya Zen Center

Marc Lesser’s life experiences as a Zen student and priest, CEO, small business owner, consultant, and executive coach give him a unique perspective on how to enhance your life by increasing your gifts to everyone you engage with.”
Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s

Marc Lesser has given us a leadership bible that, if practiced, will tap into the power of our own inner awareness and gently nudge us to transform ourselves, our relationships at work and home, and in the process, our country and world. This book is a gem.”
— Congressman Tim Ryan, Thirteenth District in Ohio, author of A Mindful Nation

Praise for the author’s Less:
Loaded with practical, applicable insights and suggestions to simplify work and daily existence.” Peter Coyote, actor and author