2016-10-20
7 分钟So what if you could take the wisdom from years of conversations like this, distill it into a single short and sweet operating manual that gave you something to do every day in order to move from where you are to living a lit up life?
That's what I've created with my new book, how to live a good life, appropriately titled I hope it's really it's an operating manual that draws from literally thousands of hours of research, hundreds, actually, maybe even thousands now, of hours of learning and sitting at the feet of astonishing teachers and traveling the world to create something simple, a beautiful, simple model, and something to do every single day for you to make a really big difference in your lives.
If you want to check it out, go to goodlifeproject.com book.
You can read the first chapter completely for free, and then it is available for purchase at booksellers all over the place.
You can find a link in the show notes as well.
On to our show.
Hey, it's Jonathan.
I am here with you with a very special Thursday Good Life project riff.
Since this is the week of my book's launch, it's birth into the world, how to live a good life, I'm kind of focusing around that.
Don't worry, we'll move past that soon enough.
But I thought, I thought it'd be really fun to share a passage with you from the book today.
It's something that I actually shared from the stage at Camp GLP this year and kind of blown away by standing ovation.
So I thought maybe I would share this same excerpt with you.
It's called dance like nobody's watching, because they're not.
So here we go.
Something kind of magical happened when I sat down to record a conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, and Big Magic.
It was like the whole exchange happened in some sort of suspended space.
The room filled with a certain lightness.
Wisdom rained down like drops from heaven, but without all the heaviness that often comes with being schooled by someone you senses profoundly in the know, when Gilberts episode aired, the response validated everything I had felt in the room.
People emailed and posted and shared.