Need a Reset? Try This One Quick Meditation Session (Bonus)

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🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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You've probably heard about the benefits of mindfulness and how meditation can help you achieve it. But you still can't find the inclination to start or the time to practice regularly. In this short bonus episode, Rasmus Hougaard, the CEO of Potential Project and a meditation expert who has studied with the Dalai Lama, takes us through a short exercise and explains why mindfulness is a game-changer for our careers and well-being. Skeptics welcome!

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0:00.0	So you got the job. Now what? Join me, Eleni Mata, on HBR's new original podcast, New
0:08.1	Here, the Young Professionals Guide to Work, and how to make it work for you. Listen for
0:13.8	free wherever you get your podcasts. Just search New Here. See you there!
0:30.0	Welcome to the HBR idea cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Alison Beard. So we're about
0:49.4	a month into the New Year after a few extremely rough ones. We've struggled through a pandemic,
0:55.2	social unrest, radical changes at work and at home, stress, even burnout. At this point, we're
1:01.9	all looking for new inspiration and energy. We all want to gear up and get ready for a better
1:06.9	future. So we decided to give you our listeners an opportunity to reset and recharge. Here to help
1:13.5	is Rasmus Hogart. He's the CEO of Potential Project, a consulting firm that's trying to make
1:18.6	work more human, and the author of a new book, Compassionate Leadership. But most importantly,
1:23.8	for us today, he's an expert in mindfulness meditation. And he's going to guide us through
1:28.9	a short exercise. Rasmus, I'm so excited for this. Welcome. Thank you very much, Alison. Very
1:35.0	happy to be here today. First, let's do a little mini lesson for those who have maybe heard
1:43.4	the word mindfulness, but don't pay much attention to it. What does it mean to you and why is
1:49.5	it important for our work in particular? Well, mindfulness is really the ability to be present,
1:57.3	mentally present with what you're doing. It includes being able to be focused on the task at hand,
2:03.9	not being distracted, which is the case for around 75% of our time. We're basically distracted,
2:11.6	thinking about other things that we're doing. So mindfulness is the ability to be present and
2:16.5	focused with what we're doing right now. And how does it make us better as leaders? Well, those
2:25.0	that have had leaders that were not mindful, sitting in meetings, not paying attention to the people
2:30.1	they're leading, having one to one's, but actually you can see they're either tapping away on their
2:34.6	phone or their mind is somewhere else. It's a really, really not engaging experience. It is an
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