Focus on a thing before a big presentation: CEO of ASML

• The CEO of ASML advises people to focus on breathing before a large presentation.
• Other leaders, including Marc Benioff and Ray Dalio, have long evangelized on meditation.
• ASML, a key player in the manufacture of semiconductors, is faced with geopolitical challenges in China.

The Dutch semiconductor giant CEO CEO of ASML has a simple advice for anyone entering a large presentation: Inspire and Expire.

“Look at how you are going to breathe during the first 30 seconds,” said Christophe Fouquet on a Podcast Bank Norges published on Wednesday. “If you breathe too quickly, your presentation will be mistaken very quickly.”

The CEO recently spoke during a series of interviews at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in Switzerland in January.

Fouquet underlined certain activities that help him avoid stress: listening to music, playing sports and spending time with her children.

The CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff and the founder of Bridgewater Associates, Ray Dalio, are among the other defenders of the executive level for mindfulness and meditation. Benioff said he started meditating every day for 30 to 60 minutes.

“I am grateful to have learned to meditate 30 years ago because I learned to stop the inner critic,” Benioff wrote on X in 2019.

Dalio called his meditation practice – which he started in 1969, even before founding his hedge fund – “the most important reason for any success I had”.

ASML, the second largest technological company in Europe, is known for making large lithography machines necessary to produce high -end fleas. Its biggest customers are the manufacturers of TSMC, Samsung and Intel flea manufacturers.

Fouquet, who has been CEO since April 2024, leads ASML through the boom of artificial intelligence and a period in the grip of uncertainty on geopolitical tensions between the United States and China. He has been working at ASML since 2008.

The $ 282 billion company was under pressure from Dutch and American governments to further restrict sales of its technology to China – one of its greatest markets – on IA and other security problems Technologies.

ASML shares have dropped by almost 20% in the past year, due to the weakening of the demand for flea manufacturers.