This content was created by Dave Kashen. This content was uploaded by Dave Kashen. This is a YouTube video titled "Unlock Your Best Self! #innergame #founderpsychology #startupleadership" (created 2025-11-30T21:01:00+00:00). The excerpt is a monologue by Dave Kashen focused on moment-to-moment awareness and practicing presence across life roles (father, husband, coach, business partner, investor). He emphasizes applying mindfulness "in the wild" (during interactions and when triggered) rather than only in ideal quiet conditions, and shares an Aikido master anecdote about recovering quickly after being attacked as the key to staying centered.
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I've practiced and committed and devoted myself to like just noticing moment to moment while I'm doing stuff. We're right here, right now, talking to you, you know, with clients, with my, you know, in-laws, with my, you know, kids, right? Like, am I, where am I, where am I? And what I have found is that by making that primary, it's like the rising tide that raises all the boats. Like, I'm a better father, a better husband, a better coach, a better business partner, a better investor, like all the things. So, for me, it's made a lot of sense to have that be primary. Like, I think about it even before my role as a husband, father. And that practice of not just in the morning doing the 10 or 20 or 60 minutes, quiet when the conditions are just perfect and everything's still. But in the wild, right, when I'm like being with people, can I notice, oh, I just got triggered or triggered myself. I experienced threat. Now, you know, I see my patterns kicking in. And I like to, I share with almost all my clients this story that I'll share with you now. About this Aikido master, and the Aikido master is in the center of the room and they're doing this demonstration where all the students are coming at him and attacking him, and he just like flicks them off like flies, like in this Zen, you know, posture. And at the end of the class, one of the students comes up to him and is like, "Master, master, like, this is amazing. How do you stay centered this whole time while we're all like attacking you?" And the master says, "Oh, I don't stay centered. I just recover so quickly, you can't tell."
