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Live Happy Now

10% Happier with Dan Harris

Live Happy Now

Live Happy LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7522 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

After a melt down on live television, ABC News’ Nightline anchor Dan Harris knew he needed to make a change in how he approached his career and his overall happiness. Dan joins this episode of Live Happy Now to share how he has learned to become just 10% happier at a time, how he reduced stress without losing his edge and found self-help that actually works.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What do you do when you have a panic attack in front of millions of people on live television?

0:05.1

Well, you don't let that meltdown, keep you down.

0:08.0

We'll talk with ABC News Nightline anchor Dan Harris about finding self-help that actually works on this episode of Live Happy Now.

0:16.5

The ancient Greeks define happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.

0:22.6

To think about positive psychology, it's a science, and it's actually younger than the Internet, believe it or not.

0:30.6

The reality is that social connection is in the research the greatest predictor we have of long-term happiness.

0:39.0

You have some factors in your control.

0:41.7

They can promote the health and resilience and growth of your absolutely most important asset, which is your brain.

0:47.6

And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves.

0:50.6

There's a way for all of us to succeed, but it might take different things.

0:54.7

We're all looking for the same thing, and that's a way to bring a little bit more joy to our day. Join us as we look at the many different paths that lead us to that happy place. This is Live Happy Now. Hello, and greetings once again. Welcome to another edition of the Live Happy Now podcast. I am your host, J.R. Houston, pleased, as always, to have you with us,

1:12.1

wherever you are in the world and however you may be listening. We're also excited about

1:16.0

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1:21.8

if you're one of those people that has electronic devices, which I assume you are, because you're

1:27.0

listening to this right now.

1:28.6

It doesn't matter if it's an iPhone or an Android phone.

1:30.7

You can get the digital edition of Live Happy magazine in the Apple Store or on the Google Play Store,

1:36.0

and we encourage you to do so because there's all kinds of fun stuff in there for you.

1:40.5

Well, this episode was very, very fun to record.

1:43.7

Being the broadcasting nerd that I am, it was very, very fun to record. Being the broadcasting nerd that I am,

1:45.7

it was very, very cool to get to talk with ABC News's nightline anchor Dan Harris. And if you

1:51.3

don't know who Dan Harris is, he's a guy that one time on live national television had a panic

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