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Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn

Google · talk · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

Jon Kabat-Zinn leads an hour-long Google tech talk on mindfulness, introducing the basic ideas and including a guided meditation. It is aimed at newcomers.

Why Hacker News recommends 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.

  • 11 people recommended it
  • 9 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2009, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “Its almost embarrassing how much that video changed my perception of my decisionmaking.”

    Changed commenter's view of decision-making

    vidar, 2010-06 · Strong recommendation · in “The rise of Anti-Distraction Software”

  2. “Both restful and thought-provoking.”

    Restful and thought-provoking hour-long talk

    spodek, 2012-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Jon Kabat-Zinn's Science of Mindfulness [audio]”

  3. “I've had success with the approach of Jon Kabat-Zinn”

    Kabat-Zinn's Google talk on mindfulness

    anguslong, 2009-11 · Recommendation · in “HN Help: I'm lost”

  4. “you may find this presentation that Jon Kabat-Zinn gave at Google interesting”

    Kabat-Zinn's Google presentation on mindfulness

    div, 2010-06 · Recommendation · in “Meditation Becomes Beneficial Surprisingly Fast”

  5. “a really good talk by Jon Kabat-Zinn at Google”

    Talk with a guided meditation and basic concepts

    crux, 2010-11 · Recommendation · in “Buddhism and Happiness: Sitting Quietly, Doing Something”

  6. “There's an excellent introductory talk that was delivered by Jon Kabat-Zinn for Google.”

    Introductory talk on mindfulness

    AshleyArgile, 2011-11 · Recommendation · in “Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation”

  7. “here's an (hour-long) intro to mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn”

    Hour-long intro to mindfulness

    pkghost, 2012-07 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Learning to switch off”

  8. “Follow-up talk for those interested in mindfulness”

    CodeCube, 2012-12 · Recommendation · in “Astrology For Businesses”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: mindfulness, meditation, jon kabat-zinn, stress reduction, google tech talk

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