Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give

you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. Each episode will feature a

new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.

Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.

Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. best. Right now I'm thrilled to introduce my guest Dan Harris. Dan is perhaps the most unlikely meditation evangelist ever.

After a panic attack on Good Morning America, he wrote the New York Times best-selling memoir

10% happier about what led him to embrace a practice he'd long considered ridiculous.

He then started the 10% happier, meditation for Fidgety Skeptics app, with a handful of bona fide

meditation teachers, including Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzburg.

He is also the host of the 10% happier podcast.

I'm really pleased to have Dan on the podcast today and hope that you can join in the

discussion by going to the psychology podcast

dot com.

Thanks for chatting with me today, Dan.

My pleasure.

Thanks for having me.

I really enjoyed your article by the way.

Oh, yeah, the one about how I was skeptical of mindfulness.

And then, you know, there's like this band of,

now I'm part of this club that you're part of people who were skeptical of

mindfulness and kind of were sold once they did it.

It's not a bad club. No, it's not. and kind of were sold once they did it.

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