Search Inside Yourself: Increase Productivity, Creativity and Happiness [ePub edition]

In that sense, I think of self-confidence as the ability to be as big as Mount Fuji and as small as an insignificant grain of sand at the same time.

write your own obituary,

if our self-awareness is weak, our empathy will be weak too.

our circuit training starts with a focused attention exercise for three minutes, and then we go to an open attention exercise for three minutes, and so on. We usually do this for twelve minutes, plus two minutes each of resting the mind on the breath at the beginning and at the end.

using joy as an object of meditation,

“neuroplasticity.” The idea is that what we think, do, and pay attention to changes the structure and function of our brains.

self-confidence to be a distinguishing factor separating the best managers from the merely average ones.

The reason is to keep the practice from becoming a burden.

becoming able to bring up a state of mind on demand,