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10% Happier with Dan Harris

43: Judge Jeremy Fogel, Using Mindfulness on the Bench

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

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

4.612.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

About 20 years ago, Judge Jeremy Fogel was serving as a superior court judge in California. But when he felt that it was causing him a lot of stress, he started looking for a way to center himself, and found meditation and yoga. Shortly after he started practicing, he was nominated to become a federal judge and said meditation became a refuge for him. Today, Judge Fogel continues to practice regularly and touts mindfulness as a powerful tool judges can use to help with their decision-making. He is currently serving as the director of the Federal Judicial Center. 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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1:15.2

I suspect that most of us spend very little time thinking about the emotional lives of judges.

1:20.4

Even when we see them on TV, there's these kind of remote figures sitting up on this

1:24.7

elevated platform where robes maybe wear a wear when judges judis in a bad mood.

1:29.4

But they of course do have emotional lives and they're making incredibly important decisions.

1:34.6

And I heard recently that there's a little bit of a movement in the judiciary to adopt

1:39.6

mindfulness. And one of the guys who's kind of at the forefront of that is Jeremy Fogel

1:43.0

who's a senior United States district judge in the Northern District of California who's

1:47.8

currently serving as the director of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C., which

1:52.4

is an education wing of the judiciary. They basically do education for judges.

1:58.1

And he's a meditator and he's trying to get other judges to do it.

2:01.5

And so I give you Jeremy Fogel.

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