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10% Happier with Dan Harris

107: Andrew Scheffer, The Wharton Monk

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.612.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Scheffer's decision to try meditation after his freshman year of college launched him on a journey where he traveled the world, spent over a year training as a Buddhist monk and worked with the famed Buddhist master, Sayadaw U Pandita, before going on to earn an MBA from the prestigious Wharton School of Business. After working in finance, Scheffer founded and leads "Mindfulness Matters," a corporate training program that applies meditation practices to leadership skills, teaching all sorts of groups from hotel workers to financial managers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape

0:09.8

and found me Rob Briden on my podcast. In this series of Briden and I talk to among

0:17.2

others Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

0:23.9

And that's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.

0:29.8

It's terrific conversation, reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

0:36.0

So do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts.

0:39.6

New episodes of Briden and are available early and ad free on Amazon Music or by subscribing

0:45.1

to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.

0:59.8

This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

1:03.1

Got a good one for you this week before I launch into it.

1:08.3

So another round of shameless self-promotion. Just just a gentle reminder that I wrote a

1:15.3

book, a new book. It's called Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics and you can preorder it

1:19.6

right now. That's the end of the shameless self-promotion. Andrew Schaffer is a friend

1:24.6

of mine and sometimes he's called the Wharton Monk because he both went to Wharton Business

1:32.2

School and was for quite a while a Buddhist monk over in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.

1:40.8

How all of that happened is really interesting. You're about to hear it. And just so you

1:45.4

know, he also has a new business called Mindfulness Matters. He teaches meditation to primarily

1:53.5

in a business context. And as I said, his story is really, really interesting. He's got

1:59.7

a lot to say. So here he is, Andrew Schaffer.

2:03.6

How did you get into this game? The Mindfulness game.

2:06.8

Yeah. So, you know, I think after my freshman year of...

2:09.8

Nice Jewish kid from suburban New York had you end up here.

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