The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Includes a bonus excerpt of Robin Sharma's upcoming The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. With more than four million copies sold in fifty-one languages, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari launched a bestselling series and continues to help people from every walk of life live with far greater success, happiness and meaning in these times of dramatic uncertainty. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari celebrates the story of Julian Mantle, a successful but misguided lawyer whose physical and emotional collapse propels him to confront his life. The result is an engaging odyssey on how to release your potential and live with passion, purpose and peace. A brilliant blend of timeless wisdom and cutting-edge success principles, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is now, more than ever, a guide for the times, as countless Canadians dedicate themselves to living a life where family, work and personal fulfillment are achieved in harmonious balance.
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After a heart attack in court, burned-out Toronto trial lawyer Julian Mantle sells his Ferrari and his mansion and walks into the Himalayas. He returns to tell a younger associate the seven habits he learned from the Sages of Sivana, framed as a fable with a garden, lighthouse, and sumo wrestler.
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari was written by Robin Sharma and published in 1997. Sharma has written many follow-up books in the same self-help fable territory, including The 5 AM Club.
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari uses Eastern philosophical and spiritual imagery (set in the Himalayas with a fictional order of sages) but is presented for general audiences. It is closer to motivational self-help than specific religion.
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is 216 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari takes most readers 3 to 5 hours to finish.
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is a standalone novel by Robin S. Sharma, not part of a series.
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
