The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is an inspiring tale that provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance and joy.
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Key Takeaways
It tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life, and the subsequent wisdom that he gains on a life-changing odyssey that enables him to create a life of passion, purpose and peace.
Principle 1: The Garden
The garden in the story symbolizes our brain.
If you sow good seeds, you’ll eventually have fruits on trees, beautiful plants, flowers, and nice smooth grass. If you put garbage inside the garden, or stop watering the plants, the place will soon turn into a dump.
Similar, if you flood your brain with positive thoughts like kindness, love, empathy, and if you keep motivating yourself, your brain will develop into this beautiful garden bearing positive thoughts. This will help you achieve greater things in life with inner peace.
But if you think negative or if you don’t give your brain regular exercise, it will turn into this garbage dump which can only yield something poisonous. Empty mind is the devils workshop.
Principle 2: The Lighthouse
The lighthouse symbolizes goals in your life.
A lighthouse shows the right direction to the ships sailing the ocean. Similarly, we should choose the right path in our life. You can only reach a destination, if you know your destination.
Choose the target and work on achieving it.
You might have to face some difficulties while moving towards your goal, but if you are consistently moving in the right direction, sooner or later you are going to reach your destination.
Principle 3: The Sumo Wrestler
The sumo wrestler symbolizes Kaizen, which means continuous learning and improvement. We need to always keep learning in everything we do in our lives.
Principle 4: The Underwear
The underwear symbolizes self-control and discipline.
This underwear is made up of cable wire, which is many thin wires together forming a cable. These thin wires might be weak alone, but when put together are even stronger than an iron rod.
Similarly, our self-control and discipline is made up of every small thing that we do in our life. Be it waking up early or eating healthy.
We feel that these small things don’t really matter. But in reality, these are the only things that matter.
You won’t see an instant impact, but in the long run, these small things can bring some big changes in your life and they will define who you are as an individual.
Principle 5: The Golden Stopwatch
The golden stopwatch symbolizes time.
No matter how rich or poor you are, you only have 24 hours in a day. The way we utilize these 24 hours is what makes us happy or sad, rich or poor. What’s important is learning how to manage everything in those 24 hours.
Principle 6: The Fragrant Rose
A famous saying in China which means that there’s always a little fragrance remaining in the hand of those who give flowers to others.
Flower and fragrance symbolizes social clause. Doesn’t matter how much you earn or what heights you reach, satisfaction of helping others is priceless.
Help others selflessly and you’ll find yourself happy most of the time.
Principle 7: The Path of Diamonds
These diamonds represent the small moments of happiness which comes our way in life.
These moments are always in the present time. Our human brains our designed in such a way that we tend to get disturbed thinking about our past and worry about the future.
You never really enjoy the small, happy moments that we have in the present. These present moments are supposed to be lived in the present and these are the real diamonds in our life.
