Hello and I'm

the practicing human podcast the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra and I am tuning in from Stanford University today and yet again in a parking lot in a car in the dark at 830 p.m.

But I'm enjoying the podcast in a car life. Might start a YouTube

channel on it. For now let's get into some content. Well today I am actually

going to share a quote with you from my good friend, Scott Barry

Kaufman, that I think brilliantly encapsulates mindfulness, meditation, and one of the great features of it. I'll talk more about that in a moment.

First, let's start with tuning into the sound of the bells, making this our short 15 seconds of meditation together.

Listen to the sound, follow it all the way until it dissolves into silence. So I'm going to read you this quote by Scott.

Scott Barry Kaufman is a professor at Barnard College, Columbia, formerly Professor at U Penn.

He's a good friend, big voice in the psychology world, runs the psychology podcast,

and he's a brilliant mind and he's a budding

meditator and he wrote this this is actually a tweet from I think a couple

months ago actually a month ago and well I'll just read it to you.

He says, Mindfulness Meditation is a matter of rewiring your brains so that instead of primarily

being rewarded by the possibility of reward, you are intrinsically

rewarded by all of the beauty that already exists at any given moment right in front of your

eyes or in your rich imagination.

Whoa.

Okay, I think I'll read that again for you

so that we can let it sink in. There's a lot there that on the surface it might

just sound like a nice soothing quote but it's pointing to something really deep and meaningful about what the practice of

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