Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn

Why HN readers recommended it

For over a decade HN has pointed people asking about stress, focus or meditation to this as a restful and approachable introduction to mindfulness.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Google

Topic

mindfulness meditation

Format

talk

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

11

HN mentions in dataset

14

Recommendation years in dataset

2009–2017

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• As engineers we should be looking at root cause, not fixing the superficial symptoms. The root cause here is that we don't have 100% control over the decisions that we make. The way to gain that control is not via willpower or superdiscipline, but rather …

• Jon Kabat-Zinn gave an hour-long talk at Google I found excellent too (they talk about it in this interview). Both restful and thought-provoking. If you're mildly interested, I recommend watching the video. I think this is the link -- [VIDEO] -- but I'm in China, …

• I've had success with the approach of Jon Kabat-Zinn -- see his talk @ Google: [VIDEO] ... his book, Full Catastrophe Living is a good read as well.