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Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan is a former Google engineer and author focused on mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and leadership. He helped create Google’s Search Inside Yourself program and wrote Search Inside Yourself and Joy on Demand. Best known for bringing meditation into the workplace, his work helped popularize mindfulness in corporate settings.

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Chade-Meng Tan, widely known as Meng, grew up in Singapore and was educated there before continuing to the United States for a master’s degree in computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After early engineering work at Kent Ridge Digital Laboratories in Singapore, he joined Google in June 2000 as one of the company’s earliest engineers. He spent years building products and working on search quality before making an unusual move from engineering into people development. That shift, later embodied in his comic but memorable title “Jolly Good Fellow,” became the key turning point in his career: he began translating contemplative practice into a practical language for work, leadership, and organizational life. ((https://chademeng.com/mengstupiditis/special-column-i-will-always-be-made-in-singapore/?utm_source=openai))

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The simple act of articulating your own inner well-being can inspire others
-How am I? I am happy and at peace
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All I really want to do is to be in the shadow of the Buddha
-When I grow up, I want to be worthy of growing up in Buddha’s shadow
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The wise man walks to the door. The fool walks in
-It is time to abandon wisdom
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The Art of Suffering is love
-The Art of Suffering is Love
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Perfection is not a state of becoming. Perfection is a state of being
-Random Thought: I am Perfect Just as I am
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Remember, one breath a day for the rest of your life
-Sustaining a Mindfulness practice
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no Tibetan is a victim, every Tibetan is a teacher
-7 Billion Tibetans: An Idea for Preserving Tibetan Culture
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Smiling. Dharma shining in my heart
-Vesak Day Poem

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