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1 LIVING A FULL-STACK LIFE: Meditation and the Dawn of the Mindful Entrepreneur REID ROBISON, MD, MBA CEO & Co-Founder

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4 A LESSON IN MINDFULNESS

5 THE DISEASE OF BEING BUSY

6 HAAL-E SHOMAA CHETOREH? HOW IS YOUR HEART DOING AT THIS VERY MOMENT, AT THIS BREATH?

7 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 MAN ~Dalai Lama

8 BEWARE THE BARRENNESS OF A BUSY LIFE

9 SUCCESS≠ ●MONEY ●THINGS ●DENT IN UNIVERSE

10 “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

11 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.

12 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.

13 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

14 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

15 “A WANDERING MIND IS AN UNHAPPY MIND.” Dr. Dan Gilbert, from a landmark study in Science 2010

16 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 Default Mode Network

17 GETTING STARTED

18 BREATHE.

19 YOGA

20 MANTRAS [ONE PEACE CALM TRANQUIL SILENCE]

21 VISUALIZATION

22 EVERYDAY MINDFULNESS

23 KNOW THYSELF

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26 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.

27 “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

28 THANK YOU twitter/ig/fb/etc: @reidrobison reid@tutegenomics.com meetup.com/meditateprovo


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