Q It's remarkable to me because I don't, I have teenage boys. I was a teenage boy. I don't know any teenage boys who can sit still. What would you do?
A It was born from a general interest in, in the mind and in psychology and in self-improvement. So, you know, I, I read all sorts of books, um, I read Tony Robbins books. I read books about improving my memory. And then there was this one book I, I read called The Relaxation Response, written by a guy called, uh, Dr. Herbert Benson. And he was one of the first researchers into, uh, meditation from a scientific perspective. And I remember at the time I was kind of stressed out with exams and the general pressures of, of being a teenager. And I would just sit and try and practice. And meditation I did find difficult. I think at that time it was, it was a bit too esoteric. Um, I found it easier to memorize relaxation techniques and, um, and then also started sourcing on online, but also in quirky bookshops, CDs that would have on the whole incredibly cheesy recordings, uh, with pan pipes and, um, You know, lots of reverb, these relaxation things, and I just thought, a lot of this content that I'm consuming It's really not designed for a mass audience. It's not very well presented, even though the techniques are incredibly simple and powerful. And I even had that thought around meditation, you know, it's been around for thousands of years in various forms, but to the average person, it's unapproachable.
AI assessment note: “I would just sit and try and practice. And meditation I did find difficult.”