As told to Kathryn Blundell. Photograph Stocksy
THE EXPERT RONALD PURSER
is a professor of management at San Francisco State University, author of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became The New Capitalist Spirituality (Repeater, £10.99) and co-host of the Mindful Cranks podcast
“There’s a real pressure in our society to be productive, and issues that get in the way of that – notably stress and anxiety – can be viewed as a dysfunction that we need to resolve on our own. One hugely popular ‘cure’ is for us to become more mindful.