Meditate to Earn

If I could go back to my 20 year old self and give him one piece of advice it would be to build a consistent meditation practice.??

Hell, if I could go back 2 weeks ago I’d probably tell myself the same thing!

It doesn’t have to be a lot, 5 minutes a day can be enough to reclaim solace in turbulent times.?

For those that know me, I’ve never been the biggest advocate for the classic education system.?

Regurgitating information is not my forte and creativity and emotional intelligence was rarely an aspect that you were graded on.

“Has potential” was a consistent theme in my report cards.?

Reading comprehension was my perennial nemesis and while never formally diagnosed there is an undercurrent of dyslexia in my world.?

That alongside never having classes that never peaked my curiosity, I never took them seriously.???

It took graduating college and the dawn of audiobooks / podcasts for my love of learning to really take off.?

The Tim Ferris podcast helped me realize that I actually have a voracious appetite for learning, I just needed the right medium.?

I've always taken to heart that if you follow your curiosity and interests in life, the rest tends to work out.?

This podcast was the initial spark that ushered me into a variety of meditation adventures including getting hypnotized, living like a monk at a 10 day silent Vipassana retreat to brain wave training with what I can only describe as Doc from back to the future.?

James Altucher was another orator that helped facilitate my audible education but in the world of Web3.0 / blockchain.?

A brief history:

• Web1.0 is www and it was designed for research and sharing information between academics.
• Web2.0 is the internet as we know it, driven by data harvesting and ad revenue with an identity model fraught with failure points which is what leads us to a lack of trust.??
• Web 3.0 is a response to being out of kilter towards a model that is focused on shifting ownership of identity and digital interactions back to the individual and not with a centralized tech oligopoly.?

Think of it this way, every username and password you have is a unique online identity and for the most part those unique identities are getting monetized by selling your data back to you in the form of advertising.?

Inversely, web3.0 values your contribution to a network based on your participation in an equitable way.?

For many it’s difficult to picture the business models that will emerge with web3.0 because it’s like trying to understand Facebook when all we had was fax machines.?

But as Gary V said “dogging web3.0 as a fad not going anywhere is akin to your mom saying email is never going to take off in the 90’s”.

Don’t be your mom!

Which got me thinking about … what if we could get paid for meditating??

The play to earn business model is burgeoning in the gaming space right now, it has a ways to mature but foundations are being built.??

This is back of a paper napkin stuff but at a high level you could partner with IOT devices like Fitbit, Oura Ring, Sens.ai and track real time data to verify if a meditative state is being achieved via lowering and maintaining HRV or brain waves. ?

There could be an opt-in model by giving consent to your data being used in their algorithms for whatever purpose you in turn get paid for the value it represents to the algorithm.?

There could even be a donation component if people wanted to donate their yield from staking ETH / SOL / DOT etc. thrown into a DAO then use that to fuel education for schools / students in need.??

Imagine building this into the curriculum to teach the benefits of meditation and the business models of the future with web3.0 to middle / high schools.

The first period of every school day incorporated 20 minutes of meditation?and then educating them on technologies of the future. ??

The amount of detention, fights, depression, anxiety, suicides and multitude of other mental health issues prevalent in todays collective condition could be nipped in the bud.

If I had something like this in middle or high school it would have captured my imagination.?

Arrows for the quiver and pennies for your thoughts. ?