In the following video Diego says he was as a young man member of the Swiss national team of rowing:
Dego further said in this interview, he was a very ambitious sports man, and he went to school for letting go there.
Other children complain that they suffer from stress in school, but not Dilgo. For him as a top athlete school was a place to let got there. Compared to what he did as a sports man, going to school was something which was good for his well-being.
But after he studied pharmacy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Diego spent 11 years in Dharamshala, India, where the Dalai Lama lives. The Exile Organization of the Tibetan government in exile is based in Dharamsala as well.
And it was the Dalai Lama who triggered the scientific studies about meditation performed by Richard R. Davidsons group. In Dharamsala we can find olympic level meditators. What is an olympic level meditators? Whatch the following video of Daniel Goleman to find out about it: