Mindful Startups

Exploring mindful approaches to VC & the entrepreneurial journey, including neuroscience, psychology, & contemplative practice.

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How To Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED https://t.co/KI86W8cRoT

[Ryan Vaughn @RyanHVaughn]

Most founders think meditation is woo-woo nonsense.

But after 15 years as a CEO, I can tell you:

Meditation will teach you more about leadership than business school ever could.

[Steve Schlafman @schlaf]

In 2024, I drastically reduced my ADHD symptoms through two practices: meditating 30 minutes daily and limiting phone usage to 75 minutes a day.

The way forward isn’t a quick fix—it’s rewiring our relationship with attention and awareness in a world designed to steal it.

[jon kabat-zinn @jonkabatzinn]

https://t.co/5g4dSuptoa. It is not over yet. One day, while important, is merely symbolic. Let's make every day meditation day, and bring greater mindfulness and heartfulness into our lives.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, what a paragraph...

[Guy @nosilverv]

If you need money to be able to say "fuck you" you never will.

[Jack @Jac5Connor]

"The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot"

- Werner Herzog

[Pico Iyer @PicoIyer]

A young man bores you with his plans, an old man with his memories. But maybe worst of all is the middle-aged man, who bores you with his doubts.

[Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffani]

That’s the key: do not try to process all of what is going on. Pay attention to what you can control. Minimize the attention paid to everything else.

It might seem callous, but we were never meant to be exposed to so much chaos, death, etc. all at once. Have to actively filter.

[Frederik Gieschen @FrederikNeckar]

Nobody explains meditation like Seinfeld.

"It's like you have a cell phone and then somebody gives you the charger. Oh, I can get this thing up to a hundred anytime I want?!

"It doesn't feel like anything. Doesn't do anything. I don't get it. I don't understand it. But here's the difference: at 1pm that day, my head does not hit the desk like it used to. ... I sail through the day."

[Ruben Harris @rubenharris]

You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me w/ all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive

James Baldwin

[Alan Watts @AlanWattsDaily]

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Obama: We live in a culture that puts a premium on things that don't last. Money, fame, status, likes. We chase the approval of strangers on our phones. We build all walls and fences around ourselves, and then we wonder why we feel so alone.

[Nix 🕊 @startingfromnix]

the best conversationalists are truly curious about the vivid interiority of another person.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Nietzsche’s Razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by narcissism

[Ed Batista @edbatista]

A reading list for CEOS: 20 articles written over the last 7 years on Managing Yourself, Managing Others, and Transitioning https://t.co/PqlkUrC3Gu

[scott 🌞 @scottdomes]

a chronic sense of urgency is based on a false promise… that when we at last “arrive”, we’ll finally be able to relax

but the chase continues

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

HOW TO HELP SOMEONE THROUGH A DIFFICULT TIME:

1. Make them a home cooked meal and drop it off.
2. Listen without giving advice.
3. Offer to do a task or chore to lessen their load.
4. Send them a text that you’re thinking them and are there if they need to talk

[Ben Casnocha @bencasnocha]

Back online after a 10 day meditation retreat.

I've done several such silent retreats over the years and somehow it doesn't get a lot easier!

"Spiritual awakening is one humiliation after another."