Jay Shetty

Our past can be an opportunity to learn to feel happy, to feel joy, to feel power, to feel passion in your life.

I see my whole 20s as a massive experiment. So were my teens. I think the problem is that we're not encouraged to experiment; we're encouraged to decide and choose, be singular and focused. You can't be that until you experiment. You don't know what's going to work until you try it.

How do we merge entertainment and education? We live in a world where entertainment wins, but if entertainment can have an educational heart, then we can really change people's lives.

We say yes to every invite, and then we feel tired and anxious and stressed and overworked and burnt out.

But if you're doing something and you don't know why you're doing it, then it's good to reflect on the intentionality behind it.

When it comes to people I love and care about, I may condense the time, but I'm giving them every ounce of my energy. When it comes to creation, I block create and block focus on business.

I create a lot of my content in one or two days for the next month because I can get really creatively inspired and then I can spend the rest of the couple of months thinking about other creative ideas but focusing on business, logistics, being effective, practical, and productive.

When it comes to time management, I talk a lot more about energy management. I try to give people 100% of my energy even if I'm giving them very little of my time.

Instead of trying to get work, focus on your network. People will play a huge part in directing your growth and investing in relationships is critical no matter what you want to do.

To me an influencer must embody 2 critical skills, continuous learning and storytelling. Accenture enabled me to accelerate my learning about exponential technologies and how they were impacting businesses, the economy and the world.

What you smell has a big impact on how you feel.

We have a tendency to assume or believe saying I love you means we are ready for love, or that hearing it from someone else means they are ready. We just assume that we are on the same page about what it means. We don't know what someone else is thinking, projecting, assuming, expecting when they say that.

When I became a monk, it didn't feel like I was giving up that much. I actually felt like I had made the best decision, because anyone who hadn't focused on building themselves up was the one losing out.

We get bored because we don't want to sit with our fears. We don't want to sit with our anxiety. We don't want to sit with our stress because it's uncomfortable.

My favorite way to learn is to speak to people who are already doing I want to do.

Giving yourself space and time can actually lead to the birth of more creativity, better creativity, and some of your best work.

We think we have to become something else to be satisfied, not realizing that being ourselves is the only thing that can satisfy us.

Aristotle was talking about happiness 2,000 years ago. Every area of our life has been disrupted and innovated apart from personal growth and self-awareness.

By looking at the suffering when I went out to India, I saw how people had nothing and were still trying to be happy.

Learning to love in the way someone wants to be loved is far more the definition of love than just loving in any way.

When I look at all of that and I look at the type of content I've created, every time I've gone wrong is when I've tried to create a piece of content where I want someone to learn something or know something.

I trained myself out of the habit of relying on notifications to make me feel good so that I could dedicate my time to my personal two-hour meditation practice every morning.

One of the most incredible things I believe that social media has done, is that it genuinely just amplifies what's inside us already.

If there's something you really love, something that you're excited to learn, something that you're energized when you hear about, speak about, or read about, that's where you want to throw your energy.

We often choose knowing over goodness. We'd rather know what's going to happen than expect to be treated with respect and worth.

You don't want to make big decisions in a rush.

Whatever that big procrastination overthinking thing is, I want you to dive into it. When I say dive into, I mean, clear your whole weekend and spend your whole weekend thinking about this.

I feel that most of our pain from the loss of a loved one is things we never said or expressed.

If I wanted to learn how to race a speed car, I'm not going to go and race with Formula One drivers. I'm going to go to a beginner's class.

Many of us actually feel the most loved when we're hugged, when we're embraced, and when we're cared for physically.

For me, it's always about using my platform to give people an alternative narrative, because we all need to upgrade our mindsets.

Social media is not going away and we're not all going to leave our phones for good. But we can make sure we don't look at our phones in the morning and the evening, which is better for our lifestyle.

I got fascinated with all of this work in terms of spirituality, philosophy, behavioral science when I was around 18 years old. I've been doing this for 14 years, and I've been doing it online for three years.

If you're at a company, look at the person who is 20 years ahead of you and ask yourself, 'Is that where I want to be?' If the answer is no, then you need to find a new path.

I shaved my hair. I wore robes. I slept on the floor. We meditated for four to eight hours a day.

I think millennials have really made it their vision and commitment into life to really find themselves, to focus on what matters.

I was at business school doing pretty well for myself, had a few offers from some great companies. But when I traveled across the world, I was shocked by just how much pain, struggle, and anguish people had to go through to have basic necessities.

Often, we think of change as being raising a million dollars or helping 100,000 people. But true change, real change could be just calling one person who you know is lonely every single day.

I'm really fortunate that I get to work with amazing partners that thankfully want to work with me because of what I stand for.

If you can build a muscle, you can build a mindset.

Knowledge is power, and it can help you overcome any fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more awareness through the process, and you know what pitfalls to look for as you get ready to transition to the next level.

Doing one thing by yourself, for yourself, that creates joy is such an important habit.

You can't be what you can't see. Expose yourself to more role models and diverse experience to broaden your perspectives and ideas.

Don't fall in love too fast. You think you know their dreams, but you just know their plans. Plans come from the head, but dreams come from the heart.

Expectations are not based on reality. They are observations, expected realities, or beliefs of what you think will happen. Expectations of others stop us from acting as our highest selves and reaching our full potential.

When you are looking to be validated by others, you are living according to their values, not yours.

Real love is figuring out how someone wants to be loved and loving them in that way.

We often refer to loneliness as something negative. And we look at it as a weakness.

I absolutely love Dubai. I have such a great community of fans out there, who always show me so much love.

Your phone needs to recharge every night. Your laptop needs to recharge. Everything needs to recharge. Are you giving yourself space, time and effort to recharge?