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He Sold His Company To Salesforce, But Felt Miserable...Until This Changed His Life Completely

This Successful Entrepreneur Reveals The #1 Mindfulness Habit To Change Your Life

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Sara Landi Tortoli
December 14, 2023

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Contrary to popular belief, success won't necessarily make you happy.

Scott Britton is a successful tech entrepreneur who has made it into the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. His most recent company, Troops, was acquired by Salesforce.

Scott seemed to have it all. Yet, he felt unhappy and "exhausted from his own perfectionism."

His life changed completely after an experience with plant medicine led to a profound Kundalini Awakening.

Since then, Scott's life has transformed. Now hw shares openly about his spiritual journey and learning to integrate daily mindfulness amidst building a business. For founders and creators pulled in endless directions, his story provides inspiration and tactical advice to align achievement with fulfillment.

🎯 Three Key Takeaways:

1. Achievement Alone Doesn’t Satisfy

“I had done everything I felt like I should to have a good life, and yet I was pretty miserable,” Scott admits. This dissatisfaction led him to explore psychedelics and meditation in an attempt to uncover happiness.

Takeaway: Be wary of the world’s model of a “good life.” Don't assume achievement or wealth will satisfy you long-term.

2. The #1 Mindfulness Habit To Change Your Life: Embrace Everyday Disturbances As Opportunities

Rather than seeing irritations like stress and anxiety as problems, Scott views them as openings for consciousness growth. He offers a simple practice - use the notes on your phone to log each time you feel disturbed. Later sit with them meditatively to uncover and release the underlying stored tensions driving those reactions.

“What that's indicating is there’s some unconscious material that is being activated right now,” he notes. By consistently working with triggers, you rewire habitual patterns and compose a more expansive identity.

Takeaway: The next time frustration or unease arises, instead of forcing it away, try sitting with it gently as Scott suggests. See what learning it holds for your expansion.

3. Your Days Can Become Moving Meditations

Scott speaks of “turning life into a meditation” by working with disturbances and not just formal practice. Instead of compartmentalizing mindfulness, he cultivates presence throughout everyday activities.

He reasons, “Meditation is the entry ticket to the game. The goal is to embody that state permanently.” Continuous conscious engagement becomes the path itself.

Takeaway: Make your whole day a mindfulness practice. How can you bring open, responsive attention to routine tasks instead of just earmarking isolated meditations?

📚 Resources:

Michael Singer - The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection: https://amzn.to/3t2OoUI

⏱️ Time Stamps:

00:00 Intro

02:18 Scott's background in entrepreneurship and journey to spirituality

07:18 Balancing Spirituality and Productivity in Everyday Life

09:00 Sara shares her spiritual journey over the past year

11:20 Transforming Life into a Meditation

15:38 Explaining his Kundalini awakening

19:16 A practice for using daily disturbances for spiritual growth

25:24 Turning life into a meditation by working with triggers

31:01 Use of psychedelics and plant medicine

35:27 Managing a spiritual life while having a full schedule

43:10 Following inner guidance from your higher self

56:34 Concept of free will and consciousness

01:01:18 AI, job loss, and finding meaning beyond work

About:

Scott Britton is an entrepreneur, content creator and consciousness explorer. His most recent startup Troops was acquired by Salesforce in 2022 where he received the Forbes 30 Under 30 award for enterprise technology. He is the host of the EvolutionFM podcast and author of the substack blog Consciousness: The Doorway to Human Evolution where he writes about how we can use everyday life to expand our consciousness and redefine what is possible for the human experience. He currently lives in Austin Texas with his fiancee and daughter.

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