Deep Cuts: Kryptonite for the Inner Critic | Kristin Neff

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

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The scientific case for self-compassion and why it doesn't have to lead to passivity, self absorption, or cheesiness.

Today's guest is Kristin Neff, an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She's the author of the book Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself and Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive.

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In this episode we talk about:

How Kristin first got into meditation and why she was drawn to the practice of compassion
How, paradoxically, self-compassion actually makes us less focused on ourselves
The three components of self-compassion
One of the big blockers for men in practicing self-compassion
What self-compassion is and isn't
How research shows that self-compassion is a trainable skill
Whether we actually need the internal cattle prod to get ahead
Being kind to yourself even when you notice prejudice coming up in your mind
And how men and women deal with shame differently

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's the 10% happier podcast, I'm Dan Harris.
0:19.8	Hello party people, quick little plug here at the top.
0:23.0	I have a couple of live events coming up on November 3rd.
0:26.6	I'm doing a thing at the mile high church in Lakewood, Colorado, which is right outside
0:30.7	of Denver.
0:31.7	If you're not in the area, you can watch the live stream.
0:34.1	There's a link for in person and live stream tickets in the show notes.
0:38.7	Also, I'm told there are still a handful of tickets available for the live podcast taping
0:44.5	we're doing in Boston on September 7th.
0:47.0	There's also a link for that in the show notes.
0:49.4	Anyway, enough self-promotion today.
0:51.5	We're talking about one of my favorite subjects.
0:54.0	It's a mental skill that is easy and yet unwise to dismiss.
0:58.5	Self-compassion.
0:59.8	There is a notion that is deeply ingrained in our culture that the only way to succeed
1:03.8	or even really to survive is to liberally apply an internal cattle prod.
1:10.0	However, there is plenty of research that strongly suggests that this self-laceration
1:15.1	approach simply leads to more anxiety and that there's actually a better alternative,
1:21.0	the aforementioned self-compassion.
1:23.1	My guest today has been at the forefront of this research.
1:26.2	Kristin Neff has empirically demonstrated the value of self-compassion.
1:29.8	She's shown that it doesn't have to lead to passivity, self-absorption, or cheesiness,
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