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Waking Up

Software

4 creators

Listening to short philosophical essays and mindfulness lessons for personal reflection and gratitude practice

"My friend Sam Harris has this Waking Up app and he has these little philosophical lessons, five minutes or less, things to ruminate on. I think they call them essays in the app. Really great app. One of the essays was 'The Last Time' — the last time you put..."

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Improving presence, breaking the cycle of compulsive thinking, and reclaiming attention from devices and distractions

"Meditation specifically mindfulness is that hack. It's noticing thought as thought. You systematically notice what's appearing in each moment, and every time you get lost in thought you bring your attention back to what is — sounds, sensations, or even thou..."

Sam Harris

Daily mindset practice during monk mode

"Five years of daily gratitude journals."

Chris Williamson

Easing tension and stress when life feels hard

"A lot of people forget when life is hard is that they throw gratitude out the window... I have access to clean water. I have access to good food. I have a roof over my head... So, grounding yourself in gratitude can really help ease that tension."

Yung Pueblo

Deep mindfulness training and personal development

"I spent well over a year on silent meditation retreats in my 20s. I got my training kind of early on there, before I built any kind of business or became a public figure or wrote any of my books."

Sam Harris

Emotional regulation — non-judgmentally observing thoughts and feelings to reduce brain activation during emotional flooding

"I think being really drilling down on the mindfulness — and what is really important about this is giving myself the space to non-judgmentally just observe what's happening in my brain. There was a study that came out of Yale looking at this: the power of j..."

Sasha Hamdani

Framework for categorical goal-setting prompts to help people identify goals that are actually meaningful to them

"We use the items in the PERMA model, which is a model of well-being that comes from positive psychology. It basically suggests that the ingredients to a good life are positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment. We give people t..."

Ben Felix