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Most people treat their morning routine like a battery that runs all day. It doesn't. Meetings, decisions and small frictions bleed it dry by noon. Reading through biographies of Dalio, Dorsey and Harari, I kept hitting the same detail: all of them meditate twice a day. So I added a midday session to test what a second reset actually does.
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Most people treat their morning routine like a battery that runs all day. It doesn't. Meetings, decisions and small frictions bleed it dry by noon. Reading through biographies of Dalio, Dorsey and Harari, I kept hitting the same detail: all of them meditate twice a day. So I added a midday session to test what a second reset actually does.
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I've been deep in biographies lately and the same routine keeps showing up. Dalio. Dorsey. Harari. Ferriss. They all run transcendental meditation twice a day.
- Harari sits for an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon
- Dorsey runs the same
- Dalio does twenty and twenty
- Ferriss does twenty-one and twenty-one
I have my own practice each morning. Two and a half hours. It's the upstream lever for the whole day. Seeing how those guys ran two sessions got me curious, so I added a midday block to test it out.
It's a second bite at the apple.
The morning sets the state. The midday session brings it back when the day starts to wear it down. Meetings, decisions, small frictions. A short pause in the middle clears that out and the afternoon picks up sharper.
Right now I'm sitting for about thirteen minutes at midday. Working up to twenty-one. Acute stress from the morning clears faster. Baseline anxiety stays low into the evening.
What short pause could you plant in the middle of your day?