July 14, 2025

Manish Singh's Path to Mindful Investing — From Merchant Navy to Happy Monk: How a Global Traveler Discovered That Happiness Is the Ultimate Investment Strategy

1 hour 11 minutes

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Manish Singh is a global investor and meditation practitioner who manages family capital across India, North America, and Western Europe while calling himself a "happy monk" and writing the blog "Mind of Manish."

3:00 - Manish's nomadic childhood across diverse Indian regions, attending 7 schools in 12 years, experiencing everything from villages without electricity to remote jungles

6:00 - How traveling from childhood taught him that "travelers belong to humanity" - seeing universal human desires across cultures

10:00 - Merchant Navy journey starting at 19, sailing globally for 6 months at a time, visiting 50+ countries across all major oceans and regions

15:00 - Metaphysical lessons from the sea: "If you love sea, sea loves you back" - respecting forces bigger than yourself

19:00 - Investment journey beginning at 16 with local magazine writing, earning $10 per article about Indian businesses

22:00 - First major break: friend's father trusted him with capital after testing his business knowledge, leading to word-of-mouth client growth

29:00 - Meditation path inspired by Buddha and Kabir, questioning why wealthy people aren't happy, defining success as happiness

42:00 - Why he continues investing: "If I manage their money and they come to my home... how do I tell them I'll not be managing your money?"

47:00 - Holding investments: "Action is enemy of investor" - partner showed if he'd been kidnapped in 2016, he'd have made more money

55:00 - Advice to 17-year-olds: "Believe in yourself, be cheerful, be honest" - society is "perfectly messy"

60:00 - Defining success as happiness: asks family annually "was I a happy person this year?"

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