What Meditation Taught Me About Business Success

8 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this reflective monologue, the speaker shares a key lesson from using the Waking Up meditation app with Sam Harris: when attention drifts during meditation, the correct response is to simply begin again, without judgment. He extends this principle to everyday habit formation and business, arguing that perceived failures—such as missing a few days of a habit—do not invalidate prior progress. Instead, each lapse offers a fresh opportunity to restart, fostering a resilient, non‑critical mindset that supports sustained change and entrepreneurial success.

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When I was learning to meditate, I used the Waking Up app with Sam Harris, and there's something he says over and over in the training, learning how to meditate, which is that when your attention drifts in your meditation, not if, right? Because when your attention drifts, because that is actually how it works, you simply begin again. And it's that simply begin again, right? Without judgment, without whatever, like simply begin again. So I stumbled over the weekend, I get to simply begin again, and it doesn't invalidate the progress that I made. And that is something that we, we struggle with is like, you know, it's hard to make a change because if we're not perfect, then we failed. Yes, I did 22 days and then I fucked up for 3 days and now I'm going to do another 30 days or whatever it's going to be. Like, cool. How rad. I didn't fail at anything, right? I get the opportunity to begin again.