Living with the Monks
What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus
By Jesse Itzler
About the book
This memoir finds entrepreneur and endurance athlete Jesse Itzler feeling that the world around him had grown too hectic. Instead of taking a vacation, he checked into a monastery. His hosts were the New Skete monks, an Orthodox order of the Russian church in the remote mountains of upstate New York, and he arrived with a shaved head and a suitcase of bananas. The monks, he learns, keep most of their hair, breed German shepherds and have written dog-training books that sold in the millions. Itzler records his self-doubt, how much he missed his family and his phone, and the tug between inner peace and checking Twitter. It follows his earlier best seller, Living with a Seal.
Arianna Huffington endorsed it, praising how Itzler reminds readers to be present and intentional in an age of widespread burnout and stress.
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Arianna Huffington (Founder/Huffington Post)
At a time when stress and burnout have become global epidemics, along comes Jesse Itzler to remind us how important it is to be present, intentional and connect with ouselves and with what really matters. With wisdom and humor, he takes us not just inside the monastery, but inside ourselves, toward a life of more stillness, more presence, more patience and more gratitude.
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