00:00:00.360Greetings, my esteemed true friends. Today I want to talk a bit about the reason behind meditation, but first we have a message from my gallant sponsor Viking Jewelry.
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00:00:40.620Now, on to the topic of meditation. It is not primarily that we want to LARP as some Buddhist monks and sit around meditating all day because it's cool.
00:00:51.880I think it's a cool thing, and I like the aesthetics of Buddhist monks and meditation and everything like that, but I'm not purposefully asking you to waste your time for no reason at all.
00:01:05.400It has a more practical meaning, and that is it trains your ability to focus. It trains your ability to focus on something for a longer period of time.
00:01:17.860So, for example, a thing you can try for yourself, if you read a book, think about how long it takes for your thoughts to start drifting in some other direction.
00:01:29.680If you feel other thoughts coming directly onto you when you're reading or when you're trying to focus on something, then you need to train your meditation more.
00:01:39.320But if you can read a book for 20 minutes completely uninterrupted, being completely in the zone, being completely focused, yeah, then you have a high level of meditation.
00:01:50.420So when I say that you should meditate for 15 or 20 minutes each day, it's not to get some peace of mind or something like that.
00:01:59.600It's for you to sharpen your mind so that you can focus intensely on something for a set amount of time.
00:02:07.140And this is something I wish I would have done when I studied, so I could study more effectively, so I could spend less time studying.
00:02:15.760Because if you think about, if you have an exam, for example, and you need to read for that exam,
00:02:22.860you have one guy who reads completely uninterrupted for half an hour, and he absorbs everything because he has such a sharp focus.
00:02:30.340And then you compare that with a guy who reads for an hour, but his mind is constantly being distracted by other thoughts.
00:02:39.520So you see, you can get more effective by meditating.
00:02:43.440And it's the same thing with physical training.
00:02:45.680You will save time, money, and energy by training.
00:02:48.760So you might say like, oh, is this a good investment of my time to train an hour each day?
00:02:53.880And yeah, it is, because sooner or later, if you don't do it, you will have to take time out to deal with injuries and unhealth, etc.