The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
by Robin Sharma
A fable about a burned-out lawyer who sells everything and returns from the Himalayas with seven virtues. The story is slight and the prose is earnest, but the practices, a morning ritual, a goal notebook, kaizen, living in the present, are concrete, and the book has introduced many readers to habits they kept.
Read it if…
you prefer your lessons wrapped in a story and want a gentle entry point to daily discipline.
Skip it if…
you find business fables tiresome; this is a prototypical one.
Three things you will actually use
- Guard the first hour of the day.
- Practice kaizen: a little better each day.
- Write goals and review them.
Do this first
Adopt the book's 'ten rituals of radiant living' one at a time, starting with the morning one.
Our verdict
Sweet and simple; more useful than sophisticated readers will admit.
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