living a full-stack life: meditation and the dawn of the mindful entrepreneur reid robison, md, mba...
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LIVING A FULL-STACK LIFE:
Meditation and the Dawn of the
Mindful Entrepreneur
REID ROBISON, MD, MBACEO & Co-Founder
A LESSON IN MINDFULNESS
THE DISEASE OF BEING BUSY
HAAL-E SHOMAA CHETOREH?
HOW IS YOUR HEART DOING AT THIS VERY
MOMENT, AT THIS BREATH?
SACRIFICES HEALTH TO MAKE MONEY
SACRIFICES MONEY TO RECUPERATE HEALTH
ANXIOUS ABOUT THE FUTUREDOES NOT ENJOY THE PRESENTLIVES AS IF HE IS NEVER GOING
TO DIE DIES HAVING NEVER LIVED
MAN
~Dalai Lama
BEWARE THE BARRENNESS OF A BUSY LIFE
SUCCESS≠
● MONEY ● THINGS● DENT IN
UNIVERSE
“You’d never hear a eulogy like,
‘Mary made SVP at 35.She never ate lunch away from her desk.
She had amazing PowerPoint skills.’
WHAT ARE WE GIVING OUR EULOGIZERS TO WORK
WITH?”~Ariana Huffington
MEDITATION:an experience of relaxing the body, quieting the mind, and awakening the spirit.
It’s is a deepening of conscious awareness that facilitates a deeper understanding of self and others.
MINDFULNESS:a non-elaborative, non-
judgmental, present-centered awareness in which each thought, feeling or sensation that arises in one’s attention field is observed as a passing event to be acknowledged and accepted.
Why Meditate?Attention & awareness training
Forms the basis of all higher cognitive & emotional abilities Calm & clear at the same time
Self-knowledge & self-masteryHigh-res perception into your own being, observe your
thought stream objectively, gain insight into selfCreate useful mental habits
Imagine whenever you meet someone your first thought is: I wish for this person to be happy
Can be volitionally trained
GREATER FOCUS • MORE CREATIVITY • LESS STRESSBETTER COPING SKILLS •
DECREASED ANXIETY
IMPROVED QUALITY OF LIFE • BETTER SLEEP
BOOSTED IMMUNE SYSTEM • MORE COMPASSION
LESS PAIN • LESS LONELINESS • LESS ADDICTION
“A WANDERING MIND IS AN UNHAPPY
MIND.”Dr. Dan Gilbert, from a landmark study in Science
2010
Day to day experiences (past/future) get stuck in our minds (we ruminate)
Distraction in general is unhappinessDefault Mode Network (DMN).
Less active = HappierMORE active when an individual is
thinking about themselves, the future, the past trying to gauge others’ perspectives
LESS active while
thinking about others
losing yourself in your work
Default Mode Network
GETTING STARTED
BREATHE.
YOGA
MANTRAS[ONE • PEACE • CALM •
TRANQUIL • SILENCE]
VISUALIZATION
EVERYDAY MINDFULN
ESS
KNOW THYSELF
What is a Full-Stack Developer Entrepreneur? Someone with familiarity in each layer, if not mastery in many and a genuine interest in all aspects of software technology life. Full-stack developers entrepreneurs who are familiar with the entire stack know how to make life easier for those around them.
“Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters. You can be mindful, you can be mindless. You can win, you can lose. The worst case is to be mindless and lose. So when you’re doing anything, be mindful, notice new things, make it meaningful to you, and you’ll prosper.”~Dr. Ellen Langer, Harvard Psychologist
