Brian Dukes

1764 days ago

There’s something about the vastness of creation that shrinks the self, kindles spiritual questions, and puts our day-to-day problems in perspective.

But such experiences are flattened when meditation is reduced to a life hack—an efficiency tool to help transform every minute of our day into economic value.

Meditation Apps and the Gospel of Self-Optimization

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Stressed at the thought of my anxiety-inducing to-do list, I decided to test the popular meditation and mindfulness app Calm, which has been downloaded 12 million times to help people de-stress.