LIVING A FULL-STACK LIFE:
Meditation and the Dawn of the
Mindful Entrepreneur
REID ROBISON, MD, MBA
CEO & 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?
MAN
SACRIFICES HEALTH TO MAKE MONEY
SACRIFICES MONEY TO RECUPERATE HEALTH
ANXIOUS ABOUT THE FUTURE
DOES NOT ENJOY THE PRESENT
LIVES AS IF HE IS NEVER GOING TO DIE
DIES HAVING NEVER LIVED
~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-mastery
High-res perception into your own being, observe your
thought stream objectively, gain insight into self
Create 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 STRESS
BETTER 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
Default Mode Network
Day to day experiences (past/future) get stuck in our
minds (we ruminate)
Distraction in general is unhappiness
Default Mode Network (DMN).
Less active = Happier
MORE 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
GETTING STARTED
BREATHE.
YOGA
MANTRAS
[ONE • PEACE • CALM • TRANQUIL • SILENCE]
VISUALIZATION
EVERYDAY
MINDFULNESS
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
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THANK YOU