About the Book
In Joy on Demand, Meng shows that you don’t need to meditate for hours, days, months or years to achieve lasting joy—you can actually get consistent access to it in as little as 15 seconds. Explaining joy and meditation as complementary things that naturally reinforce each other, Meng explains how these two skills form a virtuous cycle, and once put into motion, become a solid practice that can be sustained in daily life. For many years, meditation has been taught and practiced in cultures where almost all meditators practice fulltime for years, resulting in training programs optimized for practitioners with lots of free time and not much else to do but develop profound mastery over the mind. Seeing a disconnect between the traditional practice and the modern world, bestselling author and Google’s “Jolly Good Fellow” Chade-Meng Tan has developed a program, through “wise laziness,” to help readers meditate more efficiently and effectively. Meng shares the three pillars of joy (inner peace, insight, and happiness), why joy is the secret is to success, and demonstrates the practical tools anyone can use to cultivate it on demand.
About the Author
Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is Google’s Jolly Good Fellow (which nobody can deny). As one of Google’s earliest engineers he helped build its first mobile search service, and headed the team that monitored Google’s search quality. After a successful eight-year stint in Engineering and two years as GoogleEDU’s Head of Personal Growth, he currently serves with Google’s Talent Team. His job description is “Enlighten minds, open hearts, create world peace.” He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.