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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

5 memorable lines from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma, each with the idea behind it.

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Outer success can hide inner bankruptcy.

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Robin Sharma HourLife takeaway

The Ferrari is a symbol for achievement that costs too much of the person driving it.

The mind is a garden before it is a machine.

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Robin Sharma HourLife takeaway

What receives repeated attention grows into the climate of the inner life.

Purpose reduces status drift.

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Robin Sharma HourLife takeaway

A clear aim makes it easier to stop living by borrowed definitions of success.

Discipline protects freedom.

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Robin Sharma HourLife takeaway

Small daily practices create the conditions for a less reactive life.

Service completes ambition.

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Robin Sharma HourLife takeaway

The fable points achievement outward so success becomes contribution, not display.

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