#61: Mindfulness, Teams, and Purpose: Mindfulness Teacher and Retired Navy SEAL Jon Macaskill

School of Purpose

English - August 04, 2021 08:00 - 52 minutes - 30.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 58 ratings
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Mindfulness and purpose are two common themes in research on how to live a good life. How do they interlink? Does one lead to the other?
Jon Macaskill turned to meditation out of need. He had experienced severe trauma in the battlefield. It lead him to find another side of himself such that when he retired from the Navy, he turned full time to helping others find mindfulness for themselves as well. Mindfulness, in turn, sets the stage for purpose. As both a mindfulness practitioner and a retired SEAL, Jon has a unique, insightful perspective on what makes humans thrive.
In this episode you'll learn about:

The importance of being in a tribe for living out purposeGrowing a side interest into a full-time, purposeful activityA common pattern of purposeful activitiesThe relationship between mindfulness and purposeCommon mistakes people make when they start mindfulness

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