Review |"The monk who sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma"

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The monk who sold his Ferrari





Title : The monk who sold his Ferrari
Genre : self help fiction
Author : Robin Sharma
Format : paperback
Pages : 198
Publisher : HarpersanFrancisco
Rating : 4 / 5

Blurb

The Monk who sold his Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life, and the subsequent wisdom that he gains on a life-changing odyssey that enables him to create a life of passion, purpose and peace.

Brief

The book revolves around Julian mantle, a successful lawyer deep down an unhappy, confused, stressed person filled with pain who suffered a heart attack while he was arguing the Air Atlantic case and after he got discharged from the hospital he suddenly disappeared. His friend John who was also a lawyer went to meet him many times but Julian never met him and after few years someone was there to meet John “a mysterious visitor” who was no one other than Julian mantle with a miraculous transformation and from there started the story of Julian mantle’s transformation which includes “His visit to India, meeting Yogi krishnan who had given him the direction to find the sages, then comes his meeting with Yogi raman  and from here starts the wisdom of personal change through a small story which has thousands of lessons in it
 Here John plays the character who listens to Julian narrating and asks him questions about the journey and about what he learns from the voyage.  The book is so  well written that while reading you will feel that you are with Julian and he is narrating his story right in front of you.

Review

The title and cover of the book is really tempting and interesting especially the title is very attractive
The fable  is about the Seven lessons which Mantle learned one by one from Himalayan gurus.
Each of these lessons are discussed in detail in separate chapters.

About Author


Robin Sharma, the bestselling author of 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari', first published in 1999, is an International Leadership Professional Guru who is credited with having written 15 books on leadership. He has been guiding people to live a better life, by drawing inspiration from his own life experiences. The Leader Who Had No Title, The Leader Who Had No Title, The Greatness Guide and The Saint and The Saint are among his best books. He heads the Sharma Leadership International Inc, a firm that trains people in leadership. A former litigation lawyer, Robin holds a law degree from Dalhousie Law School, Canada. This book along with The Greatness Guide has been among the world’s bestsellers and has been translated in as many as 70 languages all over the world.

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