8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on ancient wisdom and new science.
Nobody sits us down and teaches us how to love. So we’re often thrown into relationships with nothing but romance movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until now.
Instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable steps to help you develop the skills to practice and nurture love better than ever before. He shares insights on how to win or lose together, how to define love, and why you don’t break in a break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles the entire relationship cycle, from first dates to moving in together to breaking up and starting over. And he shows us how to avoid falling for false promises and unfulfilling partners.
By living Jay Shetty’s eight rules, we can all love ourselves, our partner, and the world better than we ever thought possible.
Nobody sits us down and teaches us how to love. So we’re often thrown into relationships with nothing but romance movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until now.
Instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable steps to help you develop the skills to practice and nurture love better than ever before. He shares insights on how to win or lose together, how to define love, and why you don’t break in a break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles the entire relationship cycle, from first dates to moving in together to breaking up and starting over. And he shows us how to avoid falling for false promises and unfulfilling partners.
By living Jay Shetty’s eight rules, we can all love ourselves, our partner, and the world better than we ever thought possible.
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Honestly prob 3.5 ⭐️. Not a huge self help book gal (this was a book club choice) and some parts of this book weren’t relevant to my life (points off for that). But I was impressed and there were some great take aways for everyone regardless of stage of life. Rec audio version.
A very useful guide in unlearning how love was taught and modeled for us growing up which has affected us in adulthood. The exercises are very useful in exploring first our relationship with self and then expanding out to others. 🫶🏼
The difference between loneliness and solitude is the lens through which we see our time alone and how we use that timeI've honestly not had the time to read much this month thanks to work and school but I'm kind of glad I made time for this.
This book gained a lot of inspiration from the Vedic and Hinduism. Being a Hindu myself and not having read the Bhagavat Gita (the Hindu version of a bible or the Quran) could be a sin I'm not sure but this book sure did make me feel proud of my roots.
I liked how the book was split into four parts because that made the book like a journey, starting from You to the World. Admittedly some parts of the book was not relevant at this point of time in life for me so I did skip through it but I read through most of the content. I also liked how the book had meditations at the end of each part with reflection questions because I have started meditating as a form of mindfulness from last month.
What I didn't like about the book was how there was an excessive use of the terminologies even though I'm an Indian myself. While I appreciated the integration, I'm not sure if everyone can feel the same.
Overall a readable book, it affirmed me that I'm happier single.
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