What is love

As Mr. Shetty, a 35-year-old monk turned life coach and influencer, shared dating advice from his new book, “8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It and Let It ...

An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind.” “All of those things are part of the mystique,” she said, that also makes him palatable. “There’s so much access to meditation today, or to spiritual thought, and yet society isn’t really getting better,” she said, adding that it is in large part because the wellness options promoted in the United States don’t tackle the systemic root causes of the country’s record levels of stress, anxiety and depression. “Things are not always as they appear,” he says in a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5E8gyDPs70&t=2s) on how to avoid making snap judgments of others. “When someone cheats on you, it reflects more of who they are and not who you are,” he says in [another](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-BHuQZv7Y8) about heartbreak. Three years later, he returned to London with roughly $25,000 in student loans and had to move back in with his parents amid a chorus of “told you so” from friends and relatives. He knows how to make that content “applicable to people’s everyday lives,” Ms. “Gauranga Das talked about how using your skills in the service of others is the primary focus of human life and I was like, ‘Wait a minute — everyone so far has been teaching me how to become a millionaire or a billionaire or how to start a new company, and he’s here talking about being happy and joyful,’” Mr. “I was essentially doing what I do today, and I was happy.” “It was the most anxious and embarrassing moment in my life,” Mr. “It took me tons of internal work to wrap my head around it.” But it is all in service of his “vision”— as his website puts it — to “make wisdom go viral.” At 18, he enrolled in a management course at the prestigious Bayes Business School with plans to work in finance. Shetty’s body of work is largely based on what he learned while living at an ashram in India from 2010 to 2013 — teachings he laid out in “Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day,” his first book, which became an instant New York Times best seller in 2020.