TGL020: MEDITATION, RESILIENCE & CONTENTMENT

W/ SAM MORRIS

22 June 2020

On today’s show, I talk with Sam Morris, the founder of Zen Warrior Training. Sam coaches business executives on meditation and building resilience and mental toughness.  When he was 19, he was hit by a drunk driver and the accident left him paraplegic.  He shares his incredible journey from the fear and hopelessness he experienced in the aftermath of the accident to eventually finding a path forward into a life of joy and happiness.

We also discuss mediation, focused breathing, the inner scorecard, cultivating resilience, how to think about “wealth,” how to find purpose, and so much more.

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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

  • How to be present, and find happiness in everyday experience
  • How to find purpose in “being of service and living from our hearts”  
  • How we all want to feel “wealthy” yet we forget that what we’re after is a feeling
  • How meditation can discipline our mind
  • How attachment to impermanent things causes suffering and what to do about it
  • How we can discipline ourselves until no external circumstance can dictate our internal experience

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TRANSCRIPT

Disclaimer: The transcript that follows has been generated using artificial intelligence. We strive to be as accurate as possible, but minor errors and slightly off timestamps may be present due to platform differences.

Sean Murray  00:03

Welcome to The Good Life! I’m your host, Sean Murray. Today’s guest is Sam Morris, the founder of Zen Warrior Training. Sam coaches business executives and investors on meditation and building resilience and mental toughness.

When Sam was 19, he was hit by a drunk driver, and the accident left him paraplegic. In this episode, he shares his incredible journey from the fear and hopelessness he experienced in the aftermath of the accident, to eventually finding a path forward into a life of joy and happiness. Along the way, he taught himself to be present and to find happiness in everyday experience.

He shares how he finds meaning in what he calls “being of service and living from our hearts”. He reminds us that we all want to feel wealthy, yet we forget that what we’re after is a feeling, not a number in a bank account. He describes his practice of meditation and how it disciplines his mind, and we compare Sam’s philosophy to Warren Buffett’s concept of the inner scorecard versus the outer scorecard. There’s so much wisdom packed into this one. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Sam as much as I did. My friends, I bring you Sam Morris.

Intro  01:22

You’re listening to The Good Life by The Investor’s Podcast Network, where we explore the ideas, principles, and values that help you live a meaningful, purposeful life. Join your host, Sean Murray, on a journey for the life well-lived.

Sean Murray  01:45

Sam! Welcome to The Good Life.

Sam Morris  01:47

It’s great to be here, Sean, thanks for having me.

Sean Murray  01:51

I’m glad you could join me. You lead workshops, give executive coaching, and teach other practices around overcoming obstacles, managing stress, becoming better leaders, building resilience and mental toughness, becoming more present –all of these things. In this new world of COVID-19, for many of us, the stress levels kind of notched up a bit or two. We’re facing some bigger challenges going into a lot of unknowns. It’s not exactly clear how we find a path forward for ourselves or our families or our communities. I’m hoping that you can help us by shedding some light on how we might do that and how to do it in a better way. But before we get into that, I want you to talk about your own story. How did you get into this kind of work?

Sam Morris  02:37

Well, it starts a long time ago, during my adolescence. I started to realize that a lot of people who thought that they were living successful lives weren’t living successful lives at all. Oftentimes, the more money people made, and the more status they had, the more unhappy they were. They were chasing goals and dreams that weren’t their goals and dreams but were more of ideas that they had picked up from their family or their culture of what success looked like.

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