Andrew Scheffer, The Wharton Monk

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Andrew Scheffer's decision to try meditation after his freshman year of college launched him on a journey where he traveled the world, spent over a year training as a Buddhist monk and worked with the famed Buddhist master, Sayadaw U Pandita, before going on to earn an MBA from the prestigious Wharton School of Business. After working in finance, Scheffer founded and leads "Mindfulness Matters," a corporate training program that applies meditation practices to leadership skills, teaching all sorts of groups from hotel workers to financial managers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:43.1	Andrew Schaffer is a friend of mine and sometimes he's called the Wharton Monk because he both
1:51.2	went to Wharton Business School and was for quite a while a Buddhist monk over in Myanmar,
1:58.4	formerly known as Burma. How all of that happened is really interesting. You're about to hear
2:03.7	it. Just so you know, he also has a new business called Mindfulness Matters. He teaches meditation
2:12.0	to primarily in a business context. As I said, his story is really, really interesting.
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