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Why It Is Important (Especially for Leaders) to Feel Their Fear and Pain

When we stop resisting pain, we will often start to notice that it is simply a sensation like other sensations—and that we can be with it instead of reacting to it.

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It is not uncommon for highly successful people to be driven by a motivation to escape feelings of f

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Matthias Birk

Matthias Birk, PhD has been practicing Zen meditation for over two decades. He teaches leadership and mindfulness as an adjunct professor at NYU and at Columbia Business School’s Executive program and has taught mindfulness to leaders at organizations such as Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Google, McKinsey & Co., Ralph Lauren, the United Nations, and White & Case, LLP.

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