1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,160 Tell me about your vision. 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:06,400 My vision is to, you know, it sounds very cliche, 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,720 but it's to truly make an impact on the world, 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,000 you know, a little bit about my story. 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,400 I, and how I came to meditation and ascend is, you know, 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:16,600 I'm a student athlete. 7 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,280 I spent two years playing college football at Wake Forest. 8 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,360 And then I just finished my last season at Georgetown. 9 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:25,660 So I transferred to Georgetown going into my junior year. 10 00:00:25,660 --> 00:00:30,500 And early in college, I was facing a lot of pressure 11 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:33,380 on myself, you know, a lot of anxieties about performance. 12 00:00:33,380 --> 00:00:37,780 I graduated in, graduated high school and, you know, 13 00:00:37,780 --> 00:00:40,020 I was, I hate to say this, but I was kind of, you know, 14 00:00:40,020 --> 00:00:41,860 I was the team captain. 15 00:00:41,860 --> 00:00:44,180 I, you know, was one of the better players on my team. 16 00:00:44,180 --> 00:00:46,020 And I expected that to continue to college. 17 00:00:46,020 --> 00:00:49,700 I expected to get there and play and perform well. 18 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:51,900 And, you know, it's just such a different level. 19 00:00:51,900 --> 00:00:53,340 It's a different motor. 20 00:00:53,340 --> 00:00:55,500 There's so much more competition that, you know, 21 00:00:55,500 --> 00:00:58,580 not seeing results right away was really tough on me. 22 00:00:58,580 --> 00:01:01,700 And I started putting, you know, these limits on myself. 23 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:06,100 And I really realized that I was standing my own way. 24 00:01:06,100 --> 00:01:08,180 And I started developing bad personal habits 25 00:01:08,180 --> 00:01:09,060 outside of football. 26 00:01:09,060 --> 00:01:11,140 I, you know, became distracted. 27 00:01:11,140 --> 00:01:13,340 I started drinking too much. 28 00:01:13,340 --> 00:01:15,260 You know, I stopped caring about my diet 29 00:01:15,260 --> 00:01:17,420 and I kind of just lost focus on my vision 30 00:01:17,420 --> 00:01:19,500 of becoming the best version of myself. 31 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:22,620 I got very distracted and, you know, 32 00:01:22,620 --> 00:01:25,500 I had a very crucial moment in my life 33 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:27,180 where I just kind of had to sit back and like, 34 00:01:27,180 --> 00:01:28,340 what am I doing with myself? 35 00:01:28,340 --> 00:01:30,340 You know, how did I get to this point 36 00:01:30,340 --> 00:01:33,300 where I truly didn't recognize myself? 37 00:01:33,300 --> 00:01:35,100 And I was like, I need to change. 38 00:01:35,100 --> 00:01:36,860 I need to change the way I'm acting. 39 00:01:36,860 --> 00:01:39,300 I need to change who I'm becoming. 40 00:01:39,300 --> 00:01:40,860 I need to stop these habits. 41 00:01:40,860 --> 00:01:42,300 I need to reset. 42 00:01:42,300 --> 00:01:44,860 And that's why I transferred schools. 43 00:01:44,860 --> 00:01:46,900 I said, I need to move to a new place 44 00:01:46,900 --> 00:01:48,660 and need to recreate myself, 45 00:01:48,660 --> 00:01:51,100 truly recreate myself with my own vision, 46 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:53,780 with the vision of my ideal self. 47 00:01:53,780 --> 00:01:56,020 And through meditation, 48 00:01:56,020 --> 00:01:58,460 I was able to cultivate that sense of myself. 49 00:01:58,460 --> 00:02:02,460 And through, you know, commitment to these principles 50 00:02:02,460 --> 00:02:04,100 and commitment to these disciplines, 51 00:02:05,020 --> 00:02:07,220 it's been incredibly beneficial for my mental health, 52 00:02:07,220 --> 00:02:09,180 for my athletic performance, 53 00:02:09,180 --> 00:02:11,900 for, you know, my relationships, et cetera. 54 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:16,180 So my vision is to become the best version of myself. 55 00:02:16,180 --> 00:02:20,660 And through my actions and through who I become, 56 00:02:20,660 --> 00:02:24,900 I want to influence and I want to inspire other individuals 57 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:26,500 to also achieve their potential. 58 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:29,980 Hampton, you seem like someone 59 00:02:29,980 --> 00:02:31,780 who has experienced these things 60 00:02:31,780 --> 00:02:33,700 more than just heard about it. 61 00:02:33,700 --> 00:02:36,140 So I'm gonna ask you a tougher question. 62 00:02:36,140 --> 00:02:37,740 You said through meditation, 63 00:02:39,020 --> 00:02:40,660 what is meditation to you? 64 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:46,860 That's an incredibly dense question. 65 00:02:46,860 --> 00:02:49,700 And there's tons of layers to it. 66 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:53,860 For me, meditation involves identifying 67 00:02:53,860 --> 00:02:56,580 and bring to awareness who I think that I am. 68 00:02:56,580 --> 00:02:57,820 What are my beliefs? 69 00:02:57,820 --> 00:03:01,020 What are, what do I, how do I see the world? 70 00:03:01,020 --> 00:03:03,860 More importantly, how do I see myself in this world? 71 00:03:03,860 --> 00:03:07,260 And through meditation, I'm able to center myself 72 00:03:07,260 --> 00:03:10,540 and become aware of certain thought patterns 73 00:03:10,540 --> 00:03:12,980 and certain belief systems that I have 74 00:03:12,980 --> 00:03:14,260 that influence my actions. 75 00:03:14,260 --> 00:03:18,420 So through meditation, I strive, 76 00:03:18,420 --> 00:03:20,180 and it's a lot easier said than done, 77 00:03:20,180 --> 00:03:23,220 but to recognize these harmful patterns, 78 00:03:23,220 --> 00:03:25,340 these harmful belief systems, 79 00:03:25,340 --> 00:03:26,980 and kind of rewire them, if you will, 80 00:03:26,980 --> 00:03:28,580 to recognize and say, 81 00:03:28,580 --> 00:03:32,180 this is limiting me in this area of my life, 82 00:03:32,180 --> 00:03:34,660 whether it's something as simple as, 83 00:03:34,660 --> 00:03:39,180 oh, I can't, I'm a football player, I don't like to run. 84 00:03:39,180 --> 00:03:41,060 It's like, that's something that's so subconscious to me. 85 00:03:41,060 --> 00:03:43,380 And it's like, why am I thinking that? 86 00:03:43,380 --> 00:03:45,700 It's like, oh, because I grew up playing offensive line, 87 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:48,700 which is the front line in football. 88 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:49,940 I don't need to get too much into that. 89 00:03:49,940 --> 00:03:52,380 However, that position, we're bigger guys. 90 00:03:52,380 --> 00:03:54,380 And so I had this subconscious belief around that 91 00:03:54,380 --> 00:03:56,860 and recognizing like, oh, I don't like to run 92 00:03:56,860 --> 00:04:01,860 because it's so much, everything is subconscious, 93 00:04:01,940 --> 00:04:05,540 and recognizing that is allowing me to overcome these things. 94 00:04:05,540 --> 00:04:08,700 So through meditation, I'm able to kind of reinvent myself 95 00:04:08,700 --> 00:04:11,060 and overcome these specific patterns 96 00:04:11,060 --> 00:04:12,500 that really do hold me back. 97 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:15,580 And that's what meditation is for me. 98 00:04:15,580 --> 00:04:17,500 For me, it's much more than just a practice 99 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:20,980 to find moments of peace. 100 00:04:20,980 --> 00:04:23,820 It certainly is that, but it's much more than that for me. 101 00:04:24,820 --> 00:04:25,660 That's awesome. 102 00:04:25,660 --> 00:04:26,860 Thank you for sharing that. 103 00:04:30,140 --> 00:04:35,140 So how did you get started on this journey of meditation? 104 00:04:35,740 --> 00:04:37,860 I mean, when you saw yourself like, 105 00:04:37,860 --> 00:04:40,140 hey, I don't recognize myself, 106 00:04:40,140 --> 00:04:43,220 how did the meditation come into play in there? 107 00:04:43,220 --> 00:04:47,140 Yeah, so it came in, that's a very good question. 108 00:04:47,140 --> 00:04:49,860 And I would say it started, 109 00:04:49,860 --> 00:04:53,780 I got to a point where my thoughts were like a hurricane, 110 00:04:53,780 --> 00:04:57,180 truly like I couldn't focus on anything. 111 00:04:58,260 --> 00:05:01,180 I just had such harmful thoughts going through my head 112 00:05:02,140 --> 00:05:04,020 and it just was, it was sporadic. 113 00:05:04,020 --> 00:05:06,940 It was, I had no grip of who I was. 114 00:05:06,940 --> 00:05:08,940 And I said, I need to do something. 115 00:05:08,940 --> 00:05:11,060 I need some fix to this, right? 116 00:05:11,060 --> 00:05:12,980 I need to change. 117 00:05:12,980 --> 00:05:16,660 And my mom is an incredibly spiritual person 118 00:05:16,660 --> 00:05:19,740 and she just has an aura of peace to her. 119 00:05:19,740 --> 00:05:21,620 And I talked to my mom, I was like, mom, 120 00:05:21,620 --> 00:05:22,740 this is what's going on. 121 00:05:22,740 --> 00:05:25,020 I need something. 122 00:05:25,020 --> 00:05:26,860 I didn't wanna take any medicine. 123 00:05:26,860 --> 00:05:30,120 I didn't want to, I wanted to stay away from there. 124 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:31,620 She said, you should try meditation. 125 00:05:31,620 --> 00:05:35,100 And I tried it and I was like, this is, 126 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:36,460 I do not like this. 127 00:05:36,460 --> 00:05:38,460 Like it's bringing all these things into my awareness. 128 00:05:38,460 --> 00:05:40,660 It was making me incredibly uncomfortable. 129 00:05:40,660 --> 00:05:43,260 And she said, you have to stay consistent. 130 00:05:43,260 --> 00:05:45,700 You have to, it's a hard thing to do. 131 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:47,780 Meditating is incredibly hard. 132 00:05:47,780 --> 00:05:49,780 As simple as it is, it's one of the hardest things 133 00:05:49,780 --> 00:05:51,780 and it's very paradoxical. 134 00:05:51,780 --> 00:05:56,780 But coming to meditation, that was so essential for me, 135 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:01,860 just to recognize, I'm not my thoughts. 136 00:06:01,860 --> 00:06:04,580 I don't, I was identifying with my thoughts, if you will. 137 00:06:04,580 --> 00:06:08,580 I was having these thoughts and I was identifying with them, 138 00:06:08,580 --> 00:06:11,460 which was manifesting self in my life 139 00:06:11,460 --> 00:06:15,340 and finding that separation and observing my thoughts 140 00:06:15,340 --> 00:06:16,980 and saying they're just thoughts. 141 00:06:16,980 --> 00:06:18,660 That's not truly my identity. 142 00:06:18,660 --> 00:06:20,220 These are just thoughts I have about myself. 143 00:06:20,220 --> 00:06:23,860 That's been how I really started building 144 00:06:23,860 --> 00:06:25,420 a meditation practice, yes sir. 145 00:06:26,380 --> 00:06:29,620 And how did the journey from doing meditation 146 00:06:29,620 --> 00:06:31,500 and then thinking about getting an app together 147 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:33,580 to help others come about? 148 00:06:33,580 --> 00:06:34,400 Absolutely. 149 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,220 So I've, one of my close friends, 150 00:06:38,220 --> 00:06:39,300 his name is Jamal Banks. 151 00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:42,580 He's inspired me in so many ways, 152 00:06:42,580 --> 00:06:46,820 but the most beneficial way is that he's such a giving person 153 00:06:46,820 --> 00:06:51,060 and that's, you see people who give a lot 154 00:06:51,060 --> 00:06:52,900 and then Jamal was just this light. 155 00:06:52,900 --> 00:06:55,820 Like I truly saw, he's just a light to people. 156 00:06:55,820 --> 00:06:58,060 He is just giving, he's grateful 157 00:06:58,060 --> 00:07:01,500 and I had never cultivated that practice. 158 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:03,500 I really never practiced gratitude. 159 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:05,820 I always took for granted what I had 160 00:07:05,820 --> 00:07:07,700 and looked at what I didn't have. 161 00:07:07,700 --> 00:07:11,740 And seeing how he lived his life inspired me 162 00:07:11,740 --> 00:07:14,340 to wanna make a change and start to help other people. 163 00:07:14,340 --> 00:07:17,620 And I learned from him that helping other people 164 00:07:17,620 --> 00:07:20,900 is an action and a way to help yourself truly. 165 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:24,980 And so that, through our relationship, the friendship, 166 00:07:24,980 --> 00:07:28,340 I built this habit to wanna help other people 167 00:07:28,340 --> 00:07:31,060 as a way to truly help myself and not in a selfish way, 168 00:07:31,060 --> 00:07:33,820 but I just found it very rewarding. 169 00:07:33,820 --> 00:07:36,900 I found giving to people and helping people rewarding. 170 00:07:36,900 --> 00:07:41,900 And my friends included, I was trying to tell them, 171 00:07:42,300 --> 00:07:44,660 I was like, you guys gotta start trying meditation. 172 00:07:44,660 --> 00:07:46,340 We're 20 year old guys, we play football. 173 00:07:46,340 --> 00:07:49,860 Like that's not the norm and they kinda, 174 00:07:49,860 --> 00:07:53,300 they'd be like, okay, like, they kinda pushed it off 175 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:54,340 and that's okay. 176 00:07:54,340 --> 00:07:57,060 I would have done the same thing had I, 177 00:07:57,060 --> 00:07:58,900 someone told me that a few years earlier, right? 178 00:07:58,900 --> 00:08:03,900 And I was actually listening to a meditation in February, 179 00:08:03,900 --> 00:08:06,340 I was listening to a guided meditation on YouTube 180 00:08:06,340 --> 00:08:08,780 and I was getting into a meditative state. 181 00:08:08,780 --> 00:08:12,300 However, some things that the practitioner was saying 182 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:13,300 weren't resonating with me. 183 00:08:13,300 --> 00:08:18,300 And I said, it was almost like a spiritual insight. 184 00:08:18,420 --> 00:08:21,740 It was like, I spoke to God from him and he said, 185 00:08:21,740 --> 00:08:24,660 with the state that artificial intelligence is in, 186 00:08:24,660 --> 00:08:26,340 what if you were able to create an app 187 00:08:26,340 --> 00:08:29,700 where you could specifically make meditations 188 00:08:29,700 --> 00:08:31,220 catered to your situation, 189 00:08:31,220 --> 00:08:33,100 catered to what you're going through. 190 00:08:33,100 --> 00:08:36,420 And from that idea, while I was in this meditation, 191 00:08:36,420 --> 00:08:37,860 it was like, then you could do this with it 192 00:08:37,860 --> 00:08:40,140 and build this from that and branch it this way. 193 00:08:40,140 --> 00:08:42,220 And I just started thinking about how many ways 194 00:08:42,220 --> 00:08:43,180 that it could help people, 195 00:08:43,180 --> 00:08:46,420 whether you're an athlete that's anxious before a game 196 00:08:46,420 --> 00:08:49,980 and you wanna visualize yourself confidently, 197 00:08:49,980 --> 00:08:53,780 making plays, whether you're just a dad who's stressed out, 198 00:08:54,820 --> 00:08:57,180 work is, he has hit a quota, et cetera. 199 00:08:57,180 --> 00:09:00,540 There's so many different niches that it's specific to. 200 00:09:00,540 --> 00:09:05,540 And that was a very long answer to a question 201 00:09:05,740 --> 00:09:08,020 that didn't need that long answer, 202 00:09:08,020 --> 00:09:11,300 but yes, sir, that's how I came to wanting 203 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:12,940 to create a meditation app. 204 00:09:12,940 --> 00:09:13,940 That's awesome. 205 00:09:13,940 --> 00:09:15,780 Thank you for sharing that. 206 00:09:15,780 --> 00:09:16,620 Yes, sir. 207 00:09:16,620 --> 00:09:19,980 One more question for you before we end today's segment. 208 00:09:19,980 --> 00:09:23,380 What is your goal for being on the show today, Hampton? 209 00:09:23,380 --> 00:09:24,820 My goal for being on the show today 210 00:09:24,820 --> 00:09:26,660 is to inspire people to meditate, 211 00:09:26,660 --> 00:09:29,820 inspire people to take a leap in self-development 212 00:09:29,820 --> 00:09:33,300 and take a step into understanding themselves. 213 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:37,140 Because I think that the circumstances that we're in 214 00:09:38,900 --> 00:09:40,180 are all internal. 215 00:09:40,180 --> 00:09:42,260 And the way we internalize our circumstances 216 00:09:42,260 --> 00:09:45,940 is ultimately the way that we see the world. 217 00:09:45,940 --> 00:09:50,220 And by taking that gap, by separating ourselves 218 00:09:50,220 --> 00:09:51,820 from our circumstances and realizing 219 00:09:51,820 --> 00:09:55,640 that it's not the circumstances that affect our mindset, 220 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:56,820 that affect our mentality, 221 00:09:56,820 --> 00:10:00,220 but it's the way that we internalize our circumstances, 222 00:10:00,220 --> 00:10:03,160 that ultimately is what determines whether we're happy, 223 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:06,660 whether we're confident, whether we're, you know, 224 00:10:06,660 --> 00:10:08,020 you overcome anxiety. 225 00:10:08,020 --> 00:10:11,900 And what I hope to gain is to inspire people to meditate, 226 00:10:11,900 --> 00:10:14,500 to inspire people to begin this practice 227 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:17,820 and be fair and kind with themselves 228 00:10:17,820 --> 00:10:21,740 because it certainly is a challenging practice. 229 00:10:21,740 --> 00:10:25,260 However, it's without a doubt rewarding. 230 00:10:25,260 --> 00:10:26,620 Thank you for being here today. 231 00:10:26,620 --> 00:10:29,100 I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live. 232 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:31,740 I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions 233 00:10:31,740 --> 00:10:34,020 as these episodes continue to move forward. 234 00:10:34,020 --> 00:10:35,740 This is gonna get more and more fun. 235 00:10:35,740 --> 00:10:37,540 We'll have more and more engagement as well. 236 00:10:37,540 --> 00:10:39,660 We'll invite people to participate in the show 237 00:10:39,660 --> 00:10:42,020 and thank you for giving us your time and attention. 238 00:10:42,020 --> 00:10:44,740 Have an excellent time building out your vision 239 00:10:44,740 --> 00:11:03,740 and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.