Chade-Meng Tan “Search Inside Yourself”

In this hour long Talk at Google, engineer Chade-Meng Tan presents a practical guide to emotional intelligence that includes some Zen, humor, science, and humanity.

Created in collaboration with a Zen master, a CEO, a Stanford University scientist, and Daniel Goleman (the guy who literally wrote the book on emotional intelligence), this program is grounded in science and expressed in a way that even a skeptical, compulsively pragmatic, engineering-oriented brain like Meng’s can process.

Search Inside Yourself reveals how to calm your mind on demand and return it to a natural state of happiness, deepen self-awareness in a way that fosters self-confidence, harness empathy and compassion into outstanding leadership, and build highly productive collaborations based on trust and transparent communication. In other words, Search Inside Yourself shows you how to grow inner joy while succeeding at your work. Meng writes: “Some people buy books that teach them to be liked; others buy books that teach them to be successful. This book teaches you both. You are so lucky.”

See also Chade-Meng Tan’s book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace).

What began as an internal course at Google in 2007 has spread to over 50 countries and 150 cities around the world. To carry on this mission, the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI) was formed in 2012 as an independent nonprofit organization offering training, courses, and teacher certification in its methods.

Our trainings have been proven to reduce stress, improve focus, raise peak performance, and improve interpersonal relationships.