732: Why Mindfulness Seems Annoying by David Cain of Raptitude

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🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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David Cain shares why mindfulness seems annoying. Episode 732: Why Mindfulness Seems Annoying by David Cain of Raptitude (Meditation). David Cain is a writer and entrepreneur living in Winnipeg, Canada. On a particular boring day at his office job in 2009, he started Raptitude. His interest has always been human society and the internal human experience, and Raptitude became his megaphone for his thoughts about those things. It found an audience rather quickly and it’s been central to his life ever since. In 2013, he left his day job to write full time. The original post is located here: http://www.raptitude.com/2017/02/why-mindfulness-seems-annoying Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.1	seems annoying by DavidKane of Raptitude.com and a reverial personal narrator Justin Mollick
1:07.8	reading to you from some amazing blogs and books sometimes to help you optimize your life.
1:13.4	We haven't heard from DavidKane in a while here on the show. I'm excited to have some more
1:17.3	from Raptitude to share with you so let's get right to the post and start optimizing your life.
1:27.1	My mindfulness seems annoying by DavidKane of Raptitude.com
1:32.9	In November and article to the rounds entitled, actually let's not be in the moment
1:38.5	in which the author describes hilariously a failed attempt at mindful dish washing.
1:43.8	It's quite relatable if you ever try to force yourself to be with some unpleasant domestic
1:49.0	task like sorting recycling or scrubbing a drip tray. Even if you're attracted to the idea of
1:55.0	mindfulness, actually trying to commune with tedious or objectionable experiences often
2:00.0	proves to be neither enlightening nor fulfilling. The piece is mostly an exasperated rebuttal to
2:06.2	the new age tenet that we should force ourselves to live in the moment. It's an understandable rant
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