Getting unstuck, reframing the question, by Omar Wasow
Meditative Story
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🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Omar Wasow had a fabulous life as a reporter and tech expert – he even taught Oprah how to use email! But an important piece of unfinished business from his college days kept nagging at him, and even tempted him to run away from his life and hide. Why did this one-time gifted kid struggle to complete something that mattered to him? Why couldn't he even get started? In another classroom, in the face of a small girl struggling with her own "impossible" task, he realizes the answer – and reframes the question.
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| 0:00.0 | In public my life looks enviable. In private I feel unmoored. |
| 0:25.8 | One day I'm driving through Utah. I help organize a ski trip with friends every Martin |
| 0:30.5 | with their King Junior weekend. I drop a group of people at the airport and start driving |
| 0:35.0 | back to our rented cabin. Snowcap mountains loom on either side of me. This guy above |
| 0:41.2 | the road darkens. A thought occurs to me as I navigate the curves. What if I keep going? |
| 0:50.5 | I keep driving down the open roads, travel through the vast expanse of the mountain west. |
| 0:56.4 | What if I just escape from my life? What if I flee? I keep driving. The night |
| 1:04.6 | cloaks the mountains in darkness. |
| 1:20.4 | As co-founder of the Black Planet platform, Omar has been a real pioneer of early social |
| 1:26.6 | networking well before Facebook came along. In today's meditative story Omar's many |
| 1:32.3 | achievements cloak a troubling secret. Quietly, out of sight from those around him, he |
| 1:38.9 | like so many of us struggles to see the brightness of the sea in him. We are grateful to |
| 1:45.4 | Omar for sharing his meditative story for its universal theme that so many of us can relate |
| 1:50.8 | to. In this series we combine immersive first person stories and breathtaking music with |
| 1:57.2 | the science-backed benefits of mindfulness practice. From weight to what, this is meditative |
| 2:04.9 | story. I'm well-en and I'll be your guide. |
| 2:32.4 | The body relaxed. The body breathing. Your senses open. Your mind open. Meeting the world. |
| 3:02.0 | It's 1992 and I'm sitting in an open-air arena with hundreds of my fellow Stanford students. |
| 3:09.6 | In my heavy black graduation robe, sweat trickles down my back as I squint into the heat |
| 3:15.2 | of the midday sun. Just outside the stadium I can picture the palm trees, the sandstone |
| 3:21.6 | buildings where I took classes, the foothills in the distance. I've been waiting for this |
| 3:26.9 | day for so long. We all have. I try to take in the magnitude of the moment. I visualize |
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