Hello, and welcome back to the practicing human podcast the podcast where every day we are getting a little better at life

I'm your host Cory mascara and

I am tuning in from Stanford University today and yet again in a parking lot in a car in the dark at

8.30 pm, 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 friends got 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 you pen. He's a good friend a big voice in the psychology world runs the psychology podcast

And he's a brilliant mind and he's a 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

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