Show Notes: Ep #77 Can a sabbatical unlock your hidden potential
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About This Episode
Best selling author Karan Bajaj joins KYD to share how a sabbatical can remove the pressure of life, bring you more creativity and shift your perspective toward your work and life. Learn about Karan’s 4,1,4 rule of working four years and then taking one year off.
Karan Bajaj is a best selling novelist and striving Yogi. Born and raised in the Indian Himalayas, he now lives and works in New York. In this space, he shares his attempts to live a Yogic life in the heart of the material world.
Karan Bajaj Latest Book
In this captivating and surprising novel of spiritual discovery—a No. 1 bestseller in India—a young American travels to India and finds himself tested physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
A violent encounter on the streets of Manhattan forces Wall Street banker Maximus Pzoras to confront questions about suffering and mortality that have dogged him since his mother’s death. His search for a mentor takes him to the farthest reaches of India, where he encounters a mysterious night market, almost freezes to death on a hike up the Himalayas and finally, finds himself in an ashram in a small drought stricken village in South India where strange things begin to happen to him. Read More Here…
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Karan’s Take on Finding Your True Purpose
Mrs. Butter Passing Robot is a huge fan of your website. She has been binge watching your YouTube channel and crushing your podcast back catalog. When she came across this episode, she recommended that I give it a listen. She caught a lot of themes that she thought would resonate with me. She was right. It was a great episode.
If I have any criticisms, it would be that it seemed to end prematurely–at least, I would have liked to have heard Karan spend a bit more time reconciling his parting advice to seek out discomfort with his opening suggestion to avoid emotional materialism. I can see wisdom in both perspectives, but they also seem a bit contradictory.
Hey there Mr. & Mrs. Butter Passing Robot –
Thanks for the kind words. We put A LOT of work in creating and its wonderful to hear that people are using it to grow in their own way. It has been some time since I interviewed Karan (but I can remember he was very smart and well spoken) but I would suggest reading his book if you want a bit more from his perspective. For me, I understand that we go through stages and sometimes we seek something for one stage that we don’t need at another. At that time I think he was really looking for clarity and putting himeself in uncomfortable situations helped him learn the lessons he needed for that time in his life.
In any event, I do wish you both all the best! Tricia