THE LAZY GURU’S GUIDE TO LIFE: A MINDFUL APPROACH TO ACHIEVING MORE BY DOING LESS

Book ID/图书代码： 03540014B74208

English Summary/英文概要： The Lazy Guru is an idea perfectly in tune with today’s mindfulness movement, and a tool that helps people create space for inspiration in the tradition of Wreck This Journal.

This is a book about feeling happy and connected. It’s a guide to living effortlessly – helping you to transition from Crazy Guru spinning around on the hamster wheel of existence, to the Lazy Guru who knows that if you let things happen without trying too hard, they usually go better.

Being ‘lazy’ is a concept that goes back thousands of years, and is found at the heart of many Eastern traditions and practices. It’s what happens when a tennis player stops trying to improve his game, and learns instead by paying total attention to the ball; a public speaker stops trying to think of what to say, and breathes, and the words start to flow as if on their own; and when an entrepreneur stops trying to coordinate her absurdly complicated schedule, does something else, and waits for the problem to resolve itself. Anyone can be lazy like this – but you need to learn how. It’s called ‘returning to flow’, and The Lazy Guru’s Guide to Life gives readers a simple means of understanding and practicing this, effortlessly, in a practical and down to earth way.

Beautifully illustrated with line art and featuring interactive visual sections, it’s organised into four simple sections:

1. what lazy means 2. why it works 3. how the the lazy guru can rule the universe 4. brain training exercises for lazy gurus (from Beditation to prioritising your work goals by teaching your mind how to self-organise)

An antidote to a world that’s spinning too fast, The Lazy Guru’s Guide to Life inspires readers to look differently at their lives. It’s born out of Laurence Shorter’s considerable research into work-life balance studies, meditation, and road-testing with everyone from stressed out entrepreneurs to Mums, Dads and CEOs (not all of those categories being mutually exclusive), and has been developed in conjunction with creative agency Brave New World, whose last such project was the international hit Chineasy.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我們都知道懶惰不好，是應該改掉的壞習慣，但是作者認為若能好好利用它，反而能幫助我們解決問題，讓你從瘋狂瞎忙的倉鼠變成的生活毫不費力的懶惰大師。
「懶惰」這個概念起源可追朔到幾千年前的東方傳統習俗中，比如說一位網球球員不再努力突破自己的球技，反而是學著把專注力放在球上；一位演講者不再花盡心思構思內容，反倒是靜下心來吸口氣讓文字自然從口中湧出；一位企業家不再拼命的趕行程，而是做些其他的事，等著讓問題順勢而解。這就是懶惰的最高境界，所謂以不動應萬變，但是這需要學習的，也是作者寫此書的目的，他在書中將說明以下：
1. 何謂懶惰
2. 為什麼懶惰會發生
3. 懶惰大師如何掌控世界
4. 成為懶惰大師的大腦練習

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About the Author/作者介绍： Laurence Shorter is a British author, coach, and stand-up comedian. In his quest to attain true happiness, he has authored a bestselling book in the UK (The Optimist: One Man’s Search for the Brighter Side of Life), trained as an astrologer, and traveled the world consulting to global organizations. He currently lives in a spiritual community outside London.

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