Meditation

“When people ask me, like, how can you put so much time into meditating? I'm like, it's a better investment than the S&P 500. Like, it's a, and it's an investment that gives massive returns.”

“Meditation is the same way. It helps you separate sort of the evaluator, like the observed from the observant, like see your own thoughts from above, but writing it is, is a shortcut to doing it.”

“Meditation has been the biggest source of success that I have. It's given me an equanimity.”

“There would be zero way I could run the number of businesses I run right now if meditating wasn't a part of my practice.”

“If you want to fall asleep, the hack I found is everybody has tried some kind of a meditation routine. Just sit in bed and meditate, and your mind will hate meditation so much that if you force it to choose between the fork of meditation and sleeping, you will…”

“I feel like there's a place in the market for looking at things which are usually mixed with psychedelics and usually mixed with meditation or yoga and removing those elements and making it more practical.”

“I usually spend about half an hour a day meditating. Much of this time is spent in thought experiments. This produces a profound sense of calmness and is when many of my best decisions materialize.”

“When people first join our organization, they're kind of shocked because every meeting that is more, that is three people or more starts with a meditation.”

“People say mindfulness, meditation, things like that, that, that can increase the psychological space between stimulus and response. And that is something that Obviously does help over the long term, but it's in my opinion, no nowhere near as kind of rapid and…”

“I think it is meditation and therapy, and I found those to be more helpful than coaching, but I do think coaching has its place.”

“Like, I meditate two hours a day, one hour in the morning, one hour in the evening. I go to meditation retreats, like you know, a few times a year. Usually, usually one of them will be longer, like, 30 or 45 days long”

“I don't think meditation per se is essential in the way that I would say exercise is essential and reasonable nutrition And adequate sleep are essential.”

“Whatever success I've had in life has been more due to meditation, I think, than anything else. Maybe my curiosity, because it gives one an equanimity and a creativity that's really, really great.”

“The reality is, as I've seen over kind of a lifetime, is that very often the reason people start meditating isn't the reason they necessarily continue meditating, and that they might begin it because they want to be better on the football pitch, but over time …”

“I think breath work is where meditation was. I invested in this thing called other ships. They just actually launched their app. I use it every single day.”

“That program is your meditation that allows you to understand what is your priority, and are my cycles going there? And you know, if you see some rogue application taking away your CPU, you're gonna kill that, right? But in our own life, 90% of the time, the r…”

“And I think meditation is probably one of the very few ways that allows you to go from level three to level four, because with meditation allows you to step outside of yourself and observe your thoughts and train yourself to accept those thoughts without allow…”

“Most people are not going to read a heavy textbook, and most people will probably be turned off by the religious and spiritual kind of overtones of meditation”

“It's not going to fix anything. It's not going to change everything around us. But it will change our relationship with those things. So whether we're in work, or whether we've recently kind of lost, lost our job, whether we are in good health, whether we kind…”

“You can actually have peace of mind with a very busy mind.”

“If your motivation is to quickly solve a problem in your life, then once that problem is solved or sort of resolves itself in some way, you're unlikely to continue. So kind of set up a more of a kind of a, I'm going to do this for a long period of time.”

“Second one is tied to something that you already do. So most people just either forget about it or something else takes priority. So tie it to something like if you have a shower every morning, tie it to that. So it's shower and meditation or it's coffee and m…”

“What we need to do, I think if we really want to change our life and to meditate regularly, we need help. We need to find other like-minded people who are trying to do something similar and to get connected with them. And to help each other, support each other…”

“It's much better to get some direct guidance rather than just trying to pick it up from a book.”

“And if we try to meditate too long in the beginning, we're just going to give up because it's too difficult. So I would recommend that just start very short, maybe even 10 or 15 minutes. And to begin to develop a habit, I think it's important to pick a time Th…”

“Meditation does that too. It quietens down that mental control. The monkey mind. It's quieting the monkey mind. That's all I would say really we're doing with psychedelics and with meditation.”

“Completely eliminates stress, and it fosters creativity, because when you think of creativity, it's not that you go muscle it. It's more like, you know, you take a hot shower, and these great ideas come to you.”

“The advantage of meditation is not that you're suddenly going to gain the superpower to control your internal state. It's that you will recognize just how out of control your mind is.”

“There have been today over 2000 studies by researchers, and these are, you know, very serious studies, peer reviewed on the benefits of meditation”

“We position this practice in a very modern, you know, secular way. And we do that by design because we believe that you know, that is the key to reaching the masses and sort of lowering the barrier to entry.”