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10% Happier with Dan Harris

91: Anurag Gupta, Attorney 'Hacking' Unconscious Bias

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

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

4.612.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Anurag Gupta, who immigrated to the U.S. from India at age 10, has devoted much of his adult life to helping reduce racial inequality and transform bias into awareness and understanding with mindfulness techniques. An attorney and mindfulness expert, Gupta founded BE MORE America, a non-profit that works with various organizations, including hospitals, banks, tech firms and police academies, to train professionals on how to eliminate bias in hiring and decision making. 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

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0:39.7

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0:56.5

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1:02.6

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1:08.8

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1:13.4

Hey, it's Dan. Before we jump into this week's conversation, which is a really good and

1:21.0

really important one. I just want to tell you that something new we're doing at the 10%

1:24.2

happier app as part of our top secret corporate research by which I mean talking to customers

1:30.0

and ex-customers. It's become very clear to us what is probably blazingly obvious.

1:34.7

Anyway, which is that the number one obstacle to meditation for people is time. People just

1:39.6

feel like they don't have the time, which I get.

1:42.0

So we've got a whole new initiative we're doing around one minute counts. That's our new

1:47.9

slogan. I guess I should say mantra since it's a meditation context. One minute really

1:53.1

does count actually. And you may have heard a while ago we had a guest Corey Muscarra is

1:58.2

a great meditation teacher. He was not only a guest, but he also came in and taught another

2:02.6

guest how to meditate on a separate episode. And Corey in the course of our podcast talked

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