Andy Puddicombe, Buddhist Monk and Headspace Co-Founder on his amazing life journey and giving people the tools to improve health and happiness through meditation.

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Headspace Co-Founder Andy Puddicombe talks about getting into meditation at an early age (4:30), quitting school and traveling to the Himalayas (6:35), the effects meditating 14 hours a day had on his body (13:02), amazing lessons from his teachers (18:22), what it took to officially become a monk (31:49), his degree in Circus Arts (40:27), re-acclimating to the modern world (42:46), creating Headspace (46:39) and meeting his Co-Founder Rich Pierson (50:13) why he's a "massive fan" of WHOOP (...

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0:00.0	We discovered that there were secrets that your body was trying to tell you that could really help you optimize performance.
0:10.6	But no one could monitor those things.
0:13.2	And that's when we set out to build the technology that we thought could really change the world.
0:19.6	Welcome to the WOOP podcast.
0:21.8	I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, where we are on a mission to unlock
0:27.1	human performance.
0:29.2	At WOOP, we measure the body 24-7 and provide analytics to our members to help improve performance.
0:35.9	This includes strain, recovery, and sleep. Our clients range for
0:40.5	the best professional athletes in the world, to Navy SEALs, to fitness enthusiasts, to Fortune 500
0:46.1	CEOs and executives. The common thread among WOOP members is a passion to improve. What does it
0:52.0	take to optimize performance for athletes, for humans,
0:55.5	really anyone? We're launching a podcast to dig deeper. We'll interview experts and industry
1:01.2	leaders across sports, data, technology, physiology, athletic achievement, you name it.
1:07.9	My hope is that you'll leave these conversations with some new ideas and a greater
1:12.6	passion for performance. With that in mind, I welcome you to the Whoop podcast. I just had this
1:23.7	really strong feeling that I was never really going to feel that sense of peace that I was looking for, a sense of happiness that I was looking for, if I just continued to study from a book.
1:34.3	So I put down the meditation books and the sports science books and I quit uni and headed off to the Himalayas instead.
1:54.0	Today I'm talking to Andy Puddakom, co-founder of the wildly popular meditation app Headspace,
1:57.3	which has over 30 million downloads to date.
2:01.8	Andy is just about the last thing you'd expect from someone who started a tech company.
2:08.3	He is a Buddhist monk with a degree in circus arts, and his life journey is just fascinating.
2:14.3	This is a guy who, as a young man, was a little bit lost and someone who went out quite a bit. And then next thing you knew, he was spending 10 years becoming a Buddhist monk.
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