823 Mindfulness vs. Happiness with Sam Harris, Part 1

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

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🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

ALMOST ALL OF YOUR SUFFERING COMES FROM YOUR THOUGHTS. We all get stuck in the past. We worry about the future. We’re full of anxiety. It can consume us. And makes us ungrateful for what is happening now. In fact, you could say that the root of all our unhappiness is our thoughts. So how can we get more present? It’s not something that happens automatically. You have to practice every day. On today’s episode of The School of Greatness, I dive deep into the idea of eliminating suffering with an expert in meditation: Sam Harris. Sam Harris is a New York Times best-selling author, podcast host, and creator of the Waking Up Course. His books include The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, rationality—but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Sam explains how experiencing unconditional love got him interested in meditation and how he reframes the “bad things” that happen to him in life. So get ready to learn all about consciousness on Episode 823. Some Questions I Ask: When did you get into meditation? (6:00) Had you ever felt unconditional love before taking MDMA? (10:30) When did you start to focus on the desire to be happy? (15:50) Why do so many people believe so firmly in religion? (19:30) How do we unlock our consciousness? (32:40) If you could control your thoughts, what would you want to think? (41:00) In This Episode You Will Learn: The goal of meditation (14:00) The main tool we have is human conversation (18:00) The only important thing in the universe (30:00) How to reframe anxiety (35:00) Why worry is pointless (45:30) If you liked this episode, check out the video, show notes and more at http://www.lewishowes.com/823 and follow at instagram.com/lewishowes

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0:00.0	This is episode number 823 with New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris.
0:07.6	Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Louis Howes, a former pro athlete
0:13.0	turned lifestyle entrepreneur. And each week we bring you an inspiring person or
0:17.8	message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for
0:23.3	spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.
0:30.6	Rom Doss said as we grow in our consciousness there will be more compassion and more love.
0:39.7	And then the barriers between people, between religions, and between nations will begin to fall.
0:47.2	This is a powerful two-part series with Sam Harris who is a five-time New York Times bestselling
0:53.9	author whose writing and public lectures cover a range of topics including neuroscience,
1:00.0	moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, and rationality.
1:06.0	His work has been published in more than 20 languages and has been discussed
1:09.7	in the New York Times Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, and many other publications.
1:15.0	Sam has practiced meditation for more than 30 years and has studied with many Tibetan,
1:20.3	Indian, Burmese, and Western meditation. And he created the waking up course for anyone who
1:27.2	wants to learn to meditate in a modern scientific context. Sam also hosts the Making Sense
1:34.4	Podcasts, which explores some of the most important questions about the human mind, society,
1:41.3	and current events. And in this interview we talk about how Sam discovered feeling unconditional
1:46.4	love for all beings and what he did to maintain that feeling of unconditional love.
1:52.8	The strong power of belief which can make good people do horrible things,
1:58.5	deconstructing consciousness and using meditation as a tool for breaking the spell of our emotions,
2:05.0	how to skillfully curate the contents of your thinking. This is a powerful part.
2:12.0	The superpower of being indifferent to both good and bad thoughts and how to develop it.
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