Dan Harris on Getting 10% Happier

Three Rules

Matt D'Avella

Advice, Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Documentary, Selfhelp, Howto, Health & Fitness, Tv, Health, Self-help

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🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Dan Harris is an anchor for ABC’s Nightline & the weekend addition of Good Morning America. If you told Dan ten years ago that he’d be writing books about meditation he’d have said you’re fucking crazy (he likes to curse).

In his new book Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics he works with meditation teacher Jeff Warren to break down the common myths about the practice & how to integrate it into your life (not having enough time is usually a bad excuse).

I talk with Dan about his path to becoming an anchor, the moments that pushed his career forward & how to find happiness (or at least 10% more of it).

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0:00.0	The happiest people I know found something they loved, truly loved, and went for it with extreme prejudice.
0:08.1	Just went for it.
0:09.9	Balls out, go for it.
0:11.6	And that's what happened with me with TV news.
0:13.8	I knew I loved it.
0:15.2	I was 22.
0:16.1	I was willing to move to Bangor, Maine.
0:17.7	I had like a shit job for 5.15 hour-time with a glimmer of hope that I could ultimately
0:21.9	get on air.
0:22.9	I just went for it.
0:24.0	And that is, especially when you're young, that is, I think, the key to having a meaningful
0:30.7	professional life.
0:32.7	Dan Harris is an anchor for ABC's Nightline and the weekend edition of Good Morning America. If you told him 10 years ago
0:39.0	that he'd be writing books about meditation, he'd have told you that you're fucking crazy. He likes to
0:45.2	curse. As the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, 10% Happier, Dan broke into
0:51.1	the self-help world and taught skeptics how to open their mind with
0:55.0	meditation. His journey to exploring mindfulness started with an on-air panic attack in front of
1:00.6	millions. Years of reporting from war zones and subsequent drug use led him to his breaking point.
1:07.1	And that moment pushed him to explore the self-help world, meditation, and the inner depths of his own mind.
1:13.9	As he explained to me, a lot of people don't realize it, but the mind is trainable.
1:19.3	I talk with Dan about his path to becoming an anchor, the moments that projected his career,
1:24.5	and how to find happiness, or maybe at least just 10% more of it.
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