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Yung Pueblo

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“There's two main things. One is you tried it, it didn't work. Of course, of course it didn't work. Like no one starts out being good at meditation. Like what the mind knows is distraction. It's literally jumping from one thing to another, flying from the past to the future, from the past to the future, just swimming in imagination. So that moment when you ask your mind to stay in one place for a few seconds, it'll be gone. Totally gone. So of course you're bad at it, right? But that's why you try again. You keep trying. You calmly, you know, without getting upset with yourself, you put time into it the same way where you would use to build your muscles or educate yourself on, you know, if you want to learn Spanish, you're not just going to know Spanish. You need to study. You're not going to know, you know, zero Spanish when you begin.”
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“Totally, and you know that That's something that has that blew my mind experiencing it personally where as I kept going, as I kept going to courses, I realized I can just do more. I can do more with less stress. And to me, that's been incredible. At first I was a writer and then I started opening up and going into the venture capital world. And even later I'm thinking about opening a business, but I wouldn't have been able to do anything if it wasn't really for that basic development of self-awareness and equanimity. And I keep using the word. And equanimity, what I'm talking about is basically your ability to observe something as it really is without craving it or without having any aversion towards it. You're not hating it. You're not loving it and wanting it. You're just observing it as it is. A balanced”
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“And it was, I loved it. You know, it was incredible. But what was really telling me was that the guy who owned Nike, he was meditating a lot. And like it was really helpful. Like same thing with Steve Jobs. Like he is a serious meditator. And same thing with Sam Altman, you know, created OpenAI. He's a serious meditator. Just met him the other day and he's meditating quite seriously. But like these are people who are high performing people who make it a point to cultivate their minds.”
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“Never learn a thing. Well, this is why so, like, people listening around this is why I became so interested in you. Was when I first came around your work and the algorithm started, you know, I started popping it up. This was like two, two and a half, maybe even three years ago. And I was like, dude, we're on the same wave. You know, we're not doing the same thing. We live totally different lives There's something there that's like, yeah, it's the same wave.”
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“Totally. Totally. If you spend your whole life looking outside, you could read every book in the world and still be absolutely miserable. I think it requires this application of self awareness to really unlock your happiness. Like you have to develop what you're missing. Like develop, like compassion is in your mind, but it's undeveloped. Like self-awareness, it's a capacity you have, totally undeveloped. Like that's what was shocking to me when I went to go meditate was like My mind could do these things, but my awareness was so meek when I first started because it was like a muscle, like when I go to these meditation courses, you know, I've gone to courses that are 20, 30, 45 days long, and I come out of them and I'm like, I just spent my whole time at the gym. Like it was just a mental gym. I was like literally developing my ability to be aware, my ability to be equantist, and my ability to have love for myself and all beings.”
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“This morning, same thing. Well, this morning I was basically observing my body, you know, bringing my attention to my body, you know, started at the top of the head and keep feeling my body as I'm moving down. Know it sounds really simple, but when you put time into it, when you keep going to courses, the amount that you feel it expands pretty incredibly.”
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“Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the two basics are, you know, like what I was describing to you, the first three days, you're observing the breath.”
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“I think so. This is a thing. It's like this style of meditation You can't pay for it, you can't get it off of a YouTube video. You have to go to a 10-day course because it's not, I can tell you the instructions, but do you have enough of the cultivated qualities to be able to actually deeply feel the body? Like that's why it's a step-by-step, that 10 days is literally like one giant guided meditation. Incredibly simple instructions, but you won't be able to do them unless your mind is like calm enough unless it's, you know, it's like going to the gym. It's like if you were to ask me to go run a marathon right now, like I wouldn't be able to do it. You know, I have to train for it.”
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“I started meditating everything changed, everything opened up. I didn't even know that I should write. All of this came from cleaning up my mind and then like my intuition started waking up and it was like, oh, you know, try writing. You know that you don't know everything, but share, share the process.”
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“What I've understood is that these two hours a day that I've been meditating for the past eight years, they've been the biggest investment that I've made in my life, like by far, because it's one thing, you know, you go away to these retreats and it's incredibly valuable. You know, you can come out totally transformed to keep the process going at home, it just adds a deeper element to it that helps you continue evolving, continue evolving. And I think because I've spent that time, my relationship with my wife has flourished because it was rough. Like before we started meditating, there was a six-year period where we were together and before we started meditating and our relationship was chaos. It was like living in a hurricane, constantly fighting each other, constantly blaming each other. My relationship with my parents was very shallow. My relationships with my brother and sister were even more shallow. Same thing with friends, like work life, everything was going terrible.”
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“Yeah, I mean, this morning I looked like I came to New York City to come hang out with you, woke up this morning and just like sat up on the bed and put my timeer for one hour and started meditating. But we also meditate at home. We have our little meditation room where my wife and I meditate. And it's honestly, it's amazing. I know to a lot of people like two hours a day, wow, so much time. But I think about it to myself, like, how much time do I waste? Like, I waste tons of time. Like, I get a lot done, but I'm also constantly wasting time every day.”
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“That's Every day. I've been doing that for, I think, about eight years now. And I meditate one hour in the morning, one hour in the evening, or like late afternoon or something like that.”
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“Total silence for 10 days. You can talk to the teacher, you can ask questions, but you're there totally by yourself. You're there with a group of people, but you're in an environment where it's basically by yourself.”
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“But you learn a technique that the first three days you learn how to observe your respiration and you're giving this tool called Anapana where you're literally observing the natural breath. And then that helps calm down the mind enough where you can start feeling a lot more in your body than what's usual. You know, for some meditators, they can feel like the crispness of the pain that they might feel from sitting long hours a day where they can feel it to just like this hyper HD detail and it's not as overwhelming, right? Because they're there with it. Or on the other end, some meditators will be able to feel this flow of rapid energy moving through the body. And it's almost like an atomic river that you're sort of fine-tuning your mind to be able to feel. And you can feel how like, yeah, this is my bicep, but it's actually, it feels like”
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“Yeah, so you learn vipassana, and this is in the Snguanga tradition, same tradition that you've all known Harari also meditates in. We learn the technique by going away to one silent ten day course. So it's a big commitment. It's hard. It's not easy. You know, the first one that I did was incredibly difficult. Like I just thought about running away for the first seven days.”
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“No, no. I think a lot of people get stuck in examining the past and peeling, okay, like my mom said this one thing to me one time and then my dad did this other thing. Like it's totally valuable to understand your past, but healing happens in the present moment. Like those feelings, like if you want to deal with your past, you need to be able to create space for the feelings that are coming up right now because often those feelings that are coming up right now are just echoes of the past. You don't need to know a narrative, like you don't need to give a narrative to every single feeling. You literally just have to be able to hold space for them. And when you do hold space for them, a lot of the unbinding happens.”
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“What can I do differently? Like, what can I do to change this play that's happening around me so that I can put a different input and hopefully get a different output? And I think when we slow down, we see that. And that's one of the gifts that I personally got from meditating was I didn't have that ability before. Like the reaction was slightening fast. You know, someone said something about me I didn't like immediately like hate. Like I would be so upset, so like, you know wanting to control their view of me. And now it's like, let me slow down. Let me see how I would have dealt with this before. What's like actually the most skillful thing that I can do in this moment to like, you know, to just stay in value with myself and at the same time just like maneuver out of this. Like, is this even worth my time?”
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“I think for a lot of us, probably one of the best tools that we don't access is just the ability to slow down, is just slowing down, literally just pumping the brakes. And what you just talked about, what you just described, being able to spend time observing, okay, this is what I'm feeling. This is how I want to react. You know, I have this, because initially our initial reaction is pretty rough. It's like the most defensive one, the most survival-oriented one. But it's like, okay, that's actually going to make a bigger mess of things.”
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“Yeah, I think that's what a lot of us are going through is that the past is constantly in a loop, right? A lot of, like we are very largely formed by those first few years of life. You know, a lot of psychologists say it. About the age of seven, I would say it's more. It's like every time that you react, it gets accumulated. So those moments of heartbreak, like your first love, your first loss, like all of these things that have really formed your sense of self, they are impacting the way that you're perceiving and the way that you're reacting to the world.”
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“Self awareness time alone, reflecting, have a good teacher, you know, have someone who can point things out to you that you couldn't see before. I think that's ultimately what a lot of therapists are doing is like, have you asked yourself this? Have you been honest about this? And similar with meditation, and it's you developing a sense of inability to observe instead of just judgment because constantly when I'm looking out in the world, I'm just evaluating things. giving you this evaluation according to the memory that I have this record inside of my mind. But instead of constantly just evaluating things, why can't I just observe? Why does it have to be plus or minus? Let me just watch what's happening right now.”
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“Sometimes people get offended by this question, but you have to realize that there have definitely been people in your life who've caused you harm, people who've done terrible things. But it's you and yourself in that mind of yours, right? It's just you, and we don't quite understand how many times we replay the past over and over. And then those same feelings of tension come up again and again. And we have no way to really process that unless we try to actively find some sort of tool that will help us let go. And I think it's really important to just, you know, you got to see what you're doing to yourself.”
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“You hit it on the dot. So I think when we, it makes sense evolutionarily, like you evolution wants you to be able to survive and does not care about your happiness. It does not care about your sense of thriving. But as you come to fruition and you come into being and you're like, you're here, you have your sense of identity, you realize that there's so much misery wrapped in this sense of self, a wrapped in wrapped in your attachments. And to be able to really thrive and to be happy, it requires letting go. I mean, how much stress have you caused yourself? There's like we have to ask ourselves this. Like, of course, you know.”
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“You know all we're focusing on is building our identity, right? When you're becoming little, you're learning the culture, you're sort of taking it all in and you develop your sense of self. But when you become older, you know, when you're grounded and you have a good sense of identity, you also need to develop an understanding of what's ultimately happening around here. And I think when you get a real taste of ultimate truth, it helps you tremendously. Because I think if I didn't have around my relationship with change, I would have no access to peace.”
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“It helps you tremendously so that you're not as attached as you're moving through the world because we're constantly trying to control everything, control ourselves, control the people around us, control whatever situation we can get our hands on. And what happens when you're just trying to constantly control things? Misery, so much misery, so much struggle, so much mental tension. And I think that's why embracing change, like your original question, you know, what is our relationship with change? It's a combative one. It's a situation where, you know, we grow up as children and we”
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“Totally. And we're not trying to have people get rid of their identities, right? What we're trying to do is create a sense of flexibility within that identity where we don't often see that human beings, we tend to side on the extreme of the apparent reality. That's what I was mentioning before. I am here, you are there, we're speaking to each other. That's apparently happening. But we totally forget the ultimate reality. We totally forget that everything is constantly changing. Even this hard table, it's changing so fast, so fast that you can't even witness it. You can't even see it unless you profoundly calm down the mind and start developing your awareness, your equanimity, and you do this within the framework of the body. Because when you understand what's happening within the body, you actually understand universal law. You understand what's happening throughout the universe. And missing that undercurrent of change, missing that understanding that your ego is not this person.”
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“To my personal joy and happiness, and definitely in my relationships, because if you embrace change, you're not going to be as attached. It's not going to be like, I want you to do this this way all the time. In fact, you're going to understand, oh no, different conditions create different situations. So yes, I can have goals, but if they don't come about, I'm not going to be crying on the floor. I'm just going to try again.”
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“Quite valuable. I think the sense of self, when it becomes overgrown, when it becomes highly traumatized, it creates a barrier to happiness. So what I found through Vipasana meditation was that as I was observing the truth of impermanence, literally within the framework of the body, you know, when you start learning that everything that arises ultimately passes away and you start understanding that change is, it exists within the fabric of every single thing in this universe, you start loosening up your identity. It's not as rigid as it was before. It's not like Diego always reads science fiction and he always loves blueberries. Actually, it's not true. Sometimes I love watermelon. Sometimes I love, you know, like reading fiction. So it allows this understanding of change to help you loosen up and really evolve. And I have found that quite beneficial.”
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“A meditation that's been around that originated from the Buddhist teaching. So 2,600 years where you basically do your best to see reality as it really is. And it's very different from how we normally see reality, right? You and I are hanging out. We're talking, we're having this conversation. It feels like it's two individuals speaking, but let's ask ourselves what's happening at the ultimate level, where, well, Diego and Stephen were basically just these like bundles of atoms that are changing so incredibly rapidly, trillions of times. And at the same time, it's just mental and physical phenomena interlocking at incredibly high speeds that makes the illusion that we're here. But in reality, are we real? No, not really.”
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“Absolutely. I mean, confronting how you're feeling for a lot of us, that's the gateway to growth, right? So if you're going to be there and stand with your emotions. You either see so much that you want to keep running, or you're like, okay, I'm going to accept this challenge and let's see how I should grow next. So it is quite difficult.”
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“Center, there are tons of things that you can do now, and what you just have to do is find something that meets you where you're at. So you do see these two things rise together where the demand for your attention is through the roof now, from the media, from tech, from everything that's happening around you, family and friends, but at the same time, here are a bunch of tools for you to get your mind right so that you can not be overwhelmed by these demands.”
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“Right, right, right, right. Oh, it's totally concerning. I think it's concerning, but I think to me it gives me hope, honestly, because, of course, the world is incredibly challenging. The advent of technology, especially with social media, the increases in loneliness, like we know, we know the cause and effect are very clear, right? But these tools have been around for the Western tools of therapy, what, 100, 150 years, the Eastern tools of different forms of meditation, indigenous healing practices, these things have been around for millennia. And now that the world is globalized, people in major cities especially have access to them. Like you can type in like what can I do to deal with my anxiety and you have like, you know, things from psychiatrists, like, you know, you can go to your like local meditation.”
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“It's rare, but I think it's becoming more popular. I'm pretty inspired by what's happening now. I've been watching this whole wellness world brew and grow and develop, and obviously it has its downs, it has a lot of consumerism around it, but there are a lot of positives. And there are just millions and millions of people who are seeing therapists now. There's millions and millions of people who are meditating. And there are millions and millions more journaling, reflecting, building self-awareness, building language around these newer ideas. I mean, actually, old ideas, but that have come back around.”
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“Until I started challenging myself to just be with that. And I don't really know where that came from. You know, like I hadn't really. I hadn't really read self improvement books or seen these things online or anything like that, but I think instinctually I was like, okay, if you were lying to yourself before, now tell yourself the truth. And what does that look like a lot of the time? It looks like feeling your emotions and not running from them.”
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“And I would challenge myself to stay with the feelings that I used to run away from. So like I like to call it radical honesty with yourself. It's not really about other people, but it's between you and yourself. And when those heavy emotions would come up, normally I would just roll a joint, smoke, and just, you know, it help cover whatever was there. But when the anxiety would arise, when the stress would arise, when those feelings of worthlessness would arise, I would just sit with them and, you know, first it was a few minutes, then ten minutes, 15 minutes. And I was like, okay, like, and I learned a lot. You know, I learned that these little storms that come up, like they don't need to blow you over. They don't need to totally overwhelm you. They don't even need to govern your actions. If you just sit there and feel them, you realize they're totally temporary and it's going to be okay, you know, and I didn't know that before.”
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“Everybody doesn't win here. The other major, major, major thing, like when I, Know the few days after where I almost lost my life, I remember sitting in my room. At my mom and dad's house, and this was, you know, I had just graduated from college. It was 2011. The economy was pretty bad. It was hard to get a job at the time. And I remember sitting in the room and I was like, okay, I was like, what's the problem here? How did this almost happen? And it hit me. It was like, oh, is it because you didn't want to admit that you didn't feel good? Now, if that's what got you here, what can get you out of this? And it's, oh, it's telling yourself the truth. And this was before I had learned how to meditate or anything, but I would just sit in my bed.”
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“I think that it's pretty personalized. Like, I really don't think everybody has to hit rock bottom. And I think I like having that point of view because I think people want to like go to extremes often and kind of dramatize things, but you don't need to hit rock bottom to be the best version of yourself. I think that's kind of the situation that I was personally in. But for me, man, I remember when I was on the floor and I kept thinking about, I was like, man, I feel my life like. Know it's running out. Like, I felt it running out. And I kept thinking about my parents. And I was like, they worked so hard. Like, you know, I wasn't even mad at them. They didn't have time for me because I knew their struggle. Like I understood, like I got at you. They rolled the dice by coming to the United States because.”
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“I think people doubt their power. Honestly, man, I've seen that happen time and time again where people don't quite understand their capacity, and especially when the situation gets severe. And of course, like, you know, not everybody makes it. Like some people get destroyed by the process of hitting rock bottom, but other people stand up. It's almost like a phoenix. I remember writing a poem called Phoenix in my first book In-Word.”
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“Like, revamp my life. And I remember seeing some YouTube video or stumble upon, or I saw something back then where it was talking about how important it is to have more nutrition. So I ended up buying a like huge tub of barley grass, you know, back barley grass used to be like really hit back then. And I needed some type of superfood because I knew every day I'm just eating rice and meat, rice and meat, just like a very South American diet. I was like, okay, let me get some nutrition. Let me get this barley grass stuff. I can put it in my orange juice and just knock it back. And I was like, I got to do something. Like I have to go outside and I just started walking. And I remember I was so unhealthy, started walking lightly jogging that I got the worst shin splints. Like I literally my legs hurt so bad that I was having trouble going up the stairs, but I kept going and I kept going. And like, you know, even this morning, this morning I ran.”
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“Walking Walking. Something's, I mean, I was incredibly unhealthy, right? I was definitely overweight at the time, but internally, right? I had an exercise probably in like four years, four or five years. And so I knew I took the drugs, threw them away. I'm home and I'm like, okay.”
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“And I ended up just like building all these bad habits where I was partying constantly, doing tons of drugs, and eventually hit that breaking point in the summer of 2011 where I almost lost my life. I talked to a doctor afterwards and described to them what happened. And they were like, oh yeah, it sounds like a mild heart attack where I had just taken way too many drugs one night, was on the floor crying basically, praying, begging for my life because I didn't want to go out like that. And going through that experience and then basically taking a different route into the life that I have now, I think I'm really grateful that I had that strength and I want other people to know that they have that strength too.”
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“As I was growing up, I didn't notice how that was affecting me until I got to college, where, you know, I had so much anxiety and stress about, you know, I would see my parents fight constantly about how they were going to pay the rent, how they were going to get more groceries. I experienced multiple times where I was, you know, eight-year-old child and I'm so hungry because there wasn't enough food in the fridge. And this all got accumulated over time and never really properly processed, you know, like I didn't have access to a therapist back then, no meditating back then. It was sort of just, you know, coping mechanisms. And when I got to university, I hit this breaking point where I didn't want to admit to myself that I didn't feel good. I was constantly trying to coat myself in pleasure by drinking as much as possible, smoking as much as possible, always with friends, never alone.”
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“Think a lot of it was anxiety and stress and this sort of scarcity mindset. So I was born in Ecuador in the city called Wayakil. I came to the United States when I was about four years old with my parents. When we got to the United States, it was incredibly difficult. Like we were stuck in the classic American poverty trap. My mom, she worked cleaning houses, my dad, he worked at a supermarket. So there was no upward mobility for us. They didn't know English. We were, we went through a really difficult time.”
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“I think it's because it's pretty necessary to live a better life. Like, I think whether you've experienced serious trauma or not, you've definitely had hard moments in your life. And those hard moments get accumulated into the mind. They literally, you know, the times when you react very intensely with anger, with sadness, with whatever emotion it is, that reaction gets accumulated in your mind and predisposes you to feeling that same thing again. Oftentimes we don't quite realize that we're sort of like trapped in this tight little bubble by our past and we're thinking the same things, saying the same things, making the same actions, and it keeps us in a loop. But if you start healing, you can basically get access to your freedom.”
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“That just kind of pushed me into writing where I felt this sort of creative pull to share the little bit of that I know and it was interesting because I know that I don't know everything. I'm not fully healed. I'm not fully wise. I have a long way to go. But hopefully some of the things that I'm reflecting on could inspire other people to do this serious work as well.”
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“I think the mission is really hoping to raise self awareness around the fact that healing and letting go are possible. So I got into this world really early on. I think it was 2011 when I started realizing that healing was even possible. And this was before wellness was even a giant sort of this giant world that it is today. And to me, it was a shock, you know, when I grew up, I thought that If you were sick physically or mentally in some manner, you just had to deal with that for the rest of your life. You couldn't really fix that in any way. And when I started changing my habits, when I started changing what I was eating, when I started reassessing my friend group, and then eventually when I started meditating, the changes were so massive that I was so shocked by them that I wanted to really check in with myself and see that, is this real? And it was real.”
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“Steve Jobs, the same ultimate high performing people cultivate their minds and meditate as they cool under pressure and make more creative decisions. I can do more with less stress. It's essential for your mental health. When I grew up, I didn't want to admit to myself that I didn't feel good. Constantly trying to coat myself in pleasure by drinking as much as possible, doing tons of drugs where I almost lost my life. Everything was going terrible. But when I started meditating, everything changed. Requires this application of self-awareness to really unlock your happiness. You got to see what you're doing to yourself, meditating even the biggest investment that I've made in my life.”
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“Is incredibly challenging. The demands are intense, and whether you've experienced serious trauma or not, hard moments get accumulated into the mind. We're trapped in this tight little bubble by our past, it keeps us in a loop. You react very intensely with anger, with sadness with you to feel anxiety, stress, but healing and letting go are possible. Best tool that we don't access is meditation.”
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“People don't understand their capacity. You don't need to hit rock bottom to be the best version of yourself. What you just have to do is”
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