126: Hansa Bergwall, Reminding Us That We Die So That We Live

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The WeCroak app, which sends reminders that you're going to die -- five times a day, is not meant to be morbid, founder Hansa Bergwall said, but to make us stop and appreciate the moment we're living in. "Remembering that you're going to die is really important," said Bergwall, a publicist, writer and meditation teacher in Brooklyn, who was 11 years old when his mother died. "Sometimes that's all it takes to take a deep breath, change the program and do something different, feel something different." 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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1:24.2	Five people, why would anyone make an app specifically designed to remind you that you're
1:30.2	going to die? And why would I hardly recommend it? Well, answer both of those questions coming
1:36.4	up but first your questions and before I answer your questions, which again, I don't know
1:40.5	in advance that just played to me by my evil producer Josh. I'm looking at right now
1:44.7	who calls them from a phone number, a voicemail line that we set up that you can call in
1:50.6	and leave questions. And I'll give you that number in a second. Josh plays them to me.
1:54.7	And then I just respond off the cuff. You should just know, I'm going to issue this caveat
1:58.4	every time. I'm not a meditation teacher nor am I a mental health professional. I'm just
2:02.4	a journalist and a meditator and do my best to answer these. So here we go. Question
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