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How a Big Tech CEO Gets the Benefits of Sleep Without Sleeping
If you find meditation hard, try NSDR
In 2015 Larry Page stepped down as CEO of Google, and Sundar Pichai took his place. Pichai was the natural choice to take the helm of the company.
He had previously been labeled “the most powerful person in mobile” and “the man behind Google’s most important products.”
Since joining Google in 2004, Pichai has led several products now used by millions of people and served the company in the role of Google’s SVP for Android, Chrome, and Apps.
Today, Pichai is one of the most influential CEOs in Tech. A position of privilege, but not devoid of enormous pressures: investor relations, media exposure, responsibilities, expectations, criticism –all constants resulting in a significant amount of stress.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Pichai said he resorts to NSDR to self-induce a state of calm, relax and channel his attention to something in particular.
While Pichai finds it difficult to meditate, he finds benefit in listening to a 10-, 20- or 30-minute NSDR video on Youtube.
The acronym NSDR comes from neuroscientist and researcher Andrew Huberman and stands for No Sleep Deep Rest.
