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Every book Big Sean recommended on podcasts
Big Sean’s most recommended books
- Think Like A Monk by Jay Shetty
- The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra, Deepak Chopra M.D.
Big Sean is a recording artist who has appeared as a guest on On Purpose with Jay Shetty to discuss personal growth, mindset, and manifestation. During these conversations, he recommended and discussed several influential books that shaped his perspective. He named Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist as one of his favorite books, highlighting its core concept that personal answers lie within oneself. Big Sean expressed deep admiration for Jay Shetty's book Think Like a Monk, noting that he was reading it around the time he graduated from high school and later celebrating Shetty writing the foreword for his own work. He also discussed reading Masaru Emoto's The Hidden Messages in Water to explore how spoken words and positive intentions affect microscopic water crystals and the human body. Additionally, Big Sean brought up Don Miguel Ruiz's The Four Agreements to discuss the importance of letting go of expectations, and he shared that reading Deepak Chopra's The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success during a difficult youth left him deeply moved.
Books recommended by Big Sean
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Think Like A Monk
Think Like a Monk is a self-help book by Jay Shetty that translates ancient wisdom and monastic practices into practical, modern frameworks for overcoming negativity and finding purpose.
Recommended“Like I tune into so many interviews, I loved your book, um, I can’t wait to have you write the forward on my book.”
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The Hidden Messages in Water
The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto is an alternative-science book that argues human consciousness, spoken words, and positive or negative intentions can physically alter the molecular structure and crystalline formation of water.
Discussed“And you know, I read this book, The Hidden Messages in Water, I believe it's called.”
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The Four Agreements
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz is a spiritual self-help book that offers a code of conduct based on ancient Toltec wisdom to liberate individuals from self-limiting beliefs.
Discussed“Yeah, so uh that's one of the one I read the book The Four Agreements and that's one of them. I think one of them was to not have expectations or something like that.”
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The Alchemist
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is a celebrated philosophical novel about a young Andalusian shepherd named Santiago who travels across the desert in search of a hidden Egyptian treasure, ultimately discovering his true personal legend.
Recommended“That's what That's actually the concept of The Alchemist, one of my favorite books as well. Yeah, that's real. that.”
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The Secret
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is a bestselling self-help phenomenon centered on the law of attraction, which posits that positive visualization and focused intention can manifest wealth, health, and happiness directly into a person's life.
Discussed“and I remember reading asking it is given by Jerry Hicks and like feeling my whole vibration change.”
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The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra is a popular self-help and spiritual guide outlining principles such as pure potentiality, giving and receiving, karma, and detachment to redefine personal achievement.
Discussed“I remember reading the seven spiritual laws of success and tearing up, you know”
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Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“And that's what this book is. Like honestly, I'm not trying to sell my book to you guys that like not doing me a shameless plug, but this book is like the wisdom of like my whole family, the whole I was lucky enough to have like family members like my mom who introduced me to meditation, introduced me to”
“I mean, Mission Impossible is is a movie that where he defines impossible missions, you know.”
“Like we I remember we read Animal Farm, The Hobby, all these great books that helped me.”