Meditate Your Way to Better Product Management - Brainmates - Championing Product Management

At its core, Vipassana is a meditation technique that helps you “explore the nature of reality”. Vipassana can be translated as “Iisight,” a clear awareness of exactly what is happening as it happens. By learning to observe our ‘reality’, and practice non-reaction to sensation, we begin to intimately understand the nature of life as impermanent, the root of all human suffering and remove the walls of illusion, craving, and aversion.

The practice of Vipassana suggests that we can only TRULY know through experience. This is now something you can apply to Product Management. Do not underestimate the power of doing. It allows us to go beyond conceptualizing, to a much deeper, more impactful level, ingraining themselves in our mind in a way that superficial processing can not.

Stepping back is a practice we can take for granted.

Observing thoughts, memories, emotions, or situations — whether retrospectively or in the moment — gives you, as a PM the ability to understand and empathize with your customers more deeply and to be kinder to yourself.