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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Chade-Meng Tan

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Chade-Meng Tan was employee No. 107 at Google. But the software engineer's career took a turn when he began teaching meditation to the company's employees and executives, adopting the job title of "Jolly Good Fellow." While he's no longer at Google, Meng -- as everyone calls him -- continues to meditate and has written a new book, "Joy on Demand," detailing how anyone can access joy through meditation.

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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

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others Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

0:23.9

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0:29.8

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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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1:17.7

From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

1:24.5

I guess today was employee number 107 at Google. He was hired as an engineer, but that

1:29.6

is career took a kind of a strange little twist. He ended up spearheading the effort to

1:33.2

teach meditation to the employees and executives at Google. His name is Chad Meng Tan. Everybody

1:38.6

calls him Meng. He wrote a book about his experiences at Google called Search Inside Yourself.

1:43.4

And now he has a really interesting new book called Joy on Demand. It's interesting on

1:48.7

a million levels, but one of the things that I like about it is most people talk about

1:51.6

meditation is something that will make you reduce your stress or make you calm. But

1:56.8

Meng is shooting for joy. So we're going to talk to him about what he means by that

2:00.9

specifically. If you like cartoons and corny humor, this book is definitely for you. If

2:06.2

you don't like either of those things, the book is also for you because I think you will

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