Andy Puddicombe
15 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 23, 2019 by Andy Puddicombe · said 6 times in 4 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2020 1 mention in 1 episode
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Sep 23, 2019
Puddicombe's Gig Teaching Russian Oil Execs Sparked Idea to Demystify Meditation
“And then one of the expats had invited me to go in and teach his execs at an oil company in, in Russia. And he said, look, you know, kind of, you can't come in dressed as a Buddhist monk, you know, it's an oil company, we're in Moscow. And that had got me thin…”
Sep 23, 2019 positive
Sep 23, 2019 neutral
Sep 23, 2019 positive
Puddicombe's Hodder & Stoughton Book Advance Funded Early Headspace Operations
“We managed to get a book deal, a three book deal with Hodder and Staunton, and the advance from that, which I think, you know, still, at that time it was like one of the highest advances paid for a debut non-fiction author, really funded the rest of the busine…”
Sep 23, 2019
Puddicombe Saw 6-10 Daily Clients in London Clinics Before Headspace
“I was working full-time in the clinics, Seeing anything from six to 10 people a day. And I started at weekends. I started, I did a few workshops, but it only really changed to sort of much larger, larger groups after I met my now very good, good friend, Rich w…”
May 30, 2020 positive
May 30, 2020 positive
Puddicombe: Anchoring meditation to daily habits increases consistency
“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…”
May 30, 2020 negative
Puddicombe: Short-term problem solving fails as sustainable motivation for meditation
“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.”
Jan 3, 2022
A Three-Book Publishing Advance Funded Early Headspace Operations
“Secondly, it started a process where we managed to get a book deal, a three book deal with Hodder and Staunton, and the advance from that, which I think, you know, still, at that time, it was like one of the highest advances paid for a debut non-fiction author…”
Jan 3, 2022
Puddicombe Made Pierson A Co-Founder Because He Couldn't Afford To Pay Him
“Andy actually said to me, would you come and, would you like to work with me? And I thought he was saying, it's my business. Would you like to come and work for me? And I was like, yeah, sure. He said, well, I can't afford to kind of pay you. But would you do …”
Jan 3, 2022
Puddicombe Survived A Drunk Driving Crash That Killed Two, Injured 12
“And a drunk driver came down the road and crashed into, to the group of us, and I was just very lucky to be standing on the edge of the group, but it killed two people, and injured, sort of put in, sort of critical, like intensive care, like 12, 12 of the grou…”
Jan 3, 2022 negative
Puddicombe: An Ancient Sanskrit Brand Name Failed To Demystify Meditation
“Asunya means kind of bringing the making something real out of emptiness, and so, like, the sentiment of it was kind of right, in the sense that, kind of, I wanted to bring something into the world that kind of, you know, people hadn't necessarily experienced,…”
Jan 3, 2022
Puddicombe's Monastic Training Entailed 16 Hours Of Daily Meditation
“So in Burma it was just meditation. So we were doing an So it's eight hours of sitting and eight hours of walking meditation, all in the same room. Plus in the two hours for eating at five in the morning and 11 you'd have lunch and then no eating after midday.…”
Jan 3, 2022
Jan 3, 2022
Puddicombe: People Rarely Continue Meditating For The Same Reasons They Started
“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 …”