This Type of Meditation Creates Insight and Breakthroughs

If you need to increase your focus the first 100 people to download Endel at https://app.adjust.com/b8wxub6?campaign=thebioneer_april&adgroup=youtube will get a free week of audio experiences! *** My video course and ebook: https://www.thebioneer.com/product/sft2/ The full post with links to studies: https://www.thebioneer.com/mind-wandering/ When we imagine what it would be like to be a genius, we often imagine it changing our lives or even the world. We imagine cracking the secrets of the universe, starting highly successful businesses, writing incredible literary works... But the kind of brain training and meditation we do doesn't work on the skills that might get you there. "Regular" directive meditation is fantastic for increasing focus and even working memory, but being more focussed isn't going to create real change in your life. What we now think of as genius, actually has more to do with creative insight and breakthroughs. Likewise, it's coming up with solutions to problems and having creative ideas that can really change your life - or even the world. This is where "big idea meditation" comes in, or really any form of non-directive meditation or mind wandering. We have demonized mind wandering and daydreaming and we discourage people from having their "heads in the clouds." But I'm here to staunchly defend the importance of a little daydreaming... I actually believe it might be one of THE most important cognitive skills you can develop. *** By the way guys, I've been trying to re-introduce the cognitive performance stuff to the channel. It was tanking badly compared to the other content, but a few vocal commenters have said they did enjoy it and wanted it back. And I wanted to create it! I figured it's my job to present that same information but in a way that's more engaging to more people. So, here's my first attempt. Hope you guys enjoy the style!

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