Growth, meditating for hours and studying ancient scriptures. Where he slept on the floor and lived out of a gym locker. Was convinced he had chosen option three.Īfter graduating from college in 2010 with a 1 st class Bachelor of Science degree with Honors inīehavioral Science, Jay traded his suits for robes, shaved his head, and moved to the ashram, When he headed to India to study with monks, his family Things: a doctor, a lawyer, or a failure. In the community where Jay grew up, it was expected that he would become one of three For Jay, this was a completely new idea of success. With your talents and your skills is to use them in the service of others,” Shetty, now 32, told “He was saying that the greatest thing you can do And yet heĪppeared joyous, confident, and at peace. Nothing to something-rags-to-riches stories-but this man had done the opposite. He’d been focused on the success of people who’d gone from
How people should plant trees under whose shade they do not plan to sit. That night, the monk, Gauranga Das, spoke about the principle of self-sacrifice. Go only if his friend would join him at a club afterward. Still, when a friend invited him to hear a monk give a talk, he agreed to Malcolm X to David Beckham, driven to understand the roots of success and making aĭifference in the world. He was reading autobiographies of everyone from Jay’s thrill-seeking ventures got him suspended from school more than once as he triedīy the time he got to college at Cass Business School in London in 2007, Jay had shifted hisĬuriosity in more productive directions. Heīegan playing soccer and rugby, became more popular, and started mixing with the wrongĬrowd. When he started secondary school, things changed. But he was a shy, introverted young boy who was bullied forīeing overweight and a little nerdy. Until the age of 14, Jay did well in school, stayed out of trouble and tried his best to live up to
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In a world where people are constantly lookingįor answers, Jay believes the wisdom for how to find peace and purpose has been here allīorn in north London in 1987, Jay and his sister were raised in a middle-class Indian family.
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