Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter does it. Oprah Winfrey does it. Ray Dalio, famous American Hedge Fund Manager also. Salesforce Marc Benioff did it and the list goes on. They all meditiate.
According to a New York Magazine profile, Transcendental Meditation informed Dalio’s “belief that a person’s main obstacle to improvement was his own fragile ego.” Being in this top jobs is stressful, anyone can imagine. But there are also skill sets you need as a great CEO, where your ego indeed could get in the way through criticism from others, diverging opinions, or major failures. As a CEO, you have to deliver no matter what and stay focused. Problems only come to your table as Obama famously said, because no one else could resolve them. Even my own organisation, the United Nations, at its headquarters in New York, has a meditation room.
I myself started meditation three years ago, after 11 years in the humanitarian sector, going from one emergency into the next, realizing that I had to change something fundamentally in my life. Meditation helps me stay grounded, remain calm when a storm is brewing, and retain focus, rather than getting into my minds endless cycles of thought.
