This is the 10% happier podcast.

I'm Dan Harris.

Hello, my fellow suffering beings.

One of the most problematic aspects of many of our lives, and certainly my life, is the

inner critic, or as my guest today calls it, the inner tyrant.

A friend of mine once remarked to me that if anybody else in his life said to him the

kind of things that he says to himself, he would punch that person in the face.

He was getting, of course, he's nonviolent.

Anyway, this kind of self-laceration is, in my opinion, culturally enforced.

I definitely participate in capitalism often very happily, but there are aspects of capitalism

that are pretty noxious, including the parts that seem to want us to feel a creeping

sense of always behindness and never enoughness.

The social media, that nonstop FOMO machine, ceaseless engine of social comparison certainly

does not help.

So today, in the words of my guest, we're going to discuss strategies for unseeding, the

inner tyrant.

My guest is Ajahn Sucito, who was raised in the UK, became a monk in 1975 in the lineage

of the Thai forest master Ajahn Chah.

Sucito later helped to establish a monastery in England in West Sussex, to be exact, and

he was the abbot there from 1992 through 2014.

He still lives there while traveling around the world to teach.

He's also an incredibly prolific author and deliverer of Dharma talks.

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