Meng shares science, timeless wisdom and stories focused on ways to reduce stress and increase well-being, heighten focus and creativity, become more optimistic and resilient, build fulfilling relationships, or just be successful.
“The secret of happiness is be on the giving end of a kind thought,” he says. And if you practice kinds thoughts, you create kindness as a habit and you become a kind – and happier – person.” ~ Meng Tan
Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)
Meng is an early Google employee, the engineer that helped build Google’s first mobile search service, and headed the team that managed Google’s search quality.
But today he’s Google’s personal and spiritual development guru. His official title is “Jolly Good Fellow (Which nobody can deny).” It’s on his business card.
Emotional Intelligence
The scientific definition of Emotional Intelligence (EI) is: The ability to monitor one’s own and others feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions.
Meng’s more concise definition is:
Emotional Intellligence is the collection of emotional skills
He goes on to say, all skills are trainable, therefore Emotional Intelligence must be trainable.
How do you train Emotional Intelligence?
Meng explains three easy steps to train Emotional Intelligence:
- Attention Training: Using Mindfulness to bring your mind to a state that is calm and clear and to do it on demand.
- Self Knowledge and Self Mastery: Ability to understand your emotions in high resolution and begin to see them objectively. The understanding that I am not my emotions and my emotions are not me.
- Create Useful Mental Habits: Specifically pro-social mental habits such as Kindness.
Here is your Homework
While you are at work, once an hour, look around the room. Pick someone and for 10 seconds think about that person, and wish that person happiness. Don’t say anything or do anything, just think your wish for the person.
The next hour, pick another person and do the same.
Watch what happens to your own attitude, your own inner happiness.
Other works by Meng Tan
Other Mindfulness Works
Dr. Wayne Dyer Inspiration & Transformation App Bundle
Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment – and Your Life
Think Greater! Lose Your Mind and Create a New One! – Online Course
Awakening the Luminous Mind: Tibetan Meditation for Finding Inner Refuge Online Course