Can We All Be 10% Happier? (with Dan Harris)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 32.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

How can we make our disagreements more productive? This week, 10% Happier founder Dan Harris joins Preet Bharara to discuss how small consistent habits can change your life, how best to avoid echo chambers, and the key to healthy disagreements. Then, Preet answers your questions on what it’s like for prosecutors to see people they’ve convicted get pardoned, and the latest developments in the Letitia James case. In the bonus for Insiders, Harris turns the mic on Preet as he shares his thoughts on gratitude. Join the CAFE Insider community to stay informed without hysteria, fear-mongering, or rage-baiting. Head to cafe.com/insider to sign up. Thank you for supporting our work. Show notes and a transcript of the episode are available on our website. You can now watch this episode! Head to CAFE’s Youtube channel and subscribe. Shop Stay Tuned merch and featured books by our guests in our Amazon storefront. Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on BlueSky, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at [email protected], or call 833-997-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to stay tuned.
0:05.8	I'm Preet Bharara.
0:08.7	This is the most effective, benevolent form of manipulation I've ever encountered.
0:13.6	A little game I play during the course of my day is to see how many times I can get my interlocutor, the person I'm talking to, to say the word
0:21.4	exactly, because they feel heard. Once you've done that for people, they eat out of the palm of your
0:26.8	hand. That's Dan Harris. You might remember him as the ABC News anchor who had a panic attack on
0:34.2	live TV, an experience that sent him down a very different path. He went on to
0:38.9	write 10% happier, which yielded a whole universe, a meditation app, podcast, and substack newsletter
0:44.7	of the same name. Dan joins me to discuss how small, consistent habits can change your life,
0:50.4	how best to avoid echo chambers, and how to navigate that one family member you fundamentally disagree
0:55.2	with. Then I'll answer your questions about what it's like for prosecutors to see people they've
0:59.8	convicted get pardoned. That's coming up. Stay tuned. Support for the show comes from Snapdragon.
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