This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Happy Friday, everybody. I don't want to brag, but one of my favorite things that I've ever written is the first line in my first book, 10% happier, which went something like this.

I wanted to call this book, The Voice in My Head is an Asshole.

To me, that just perfectly encapsulates the human condition, at least for most of us.

Sure, we are capable of a lot of good stuff, creativity, compassion. me, that just perfectly encapsulates the human condition, at least for most of us.

Sure, we are capable of a lot of good stuff, creativity, compassion, et cetera, but the untrained mind is often a hatchery of self-loathing, grudge-holding, judging, greed, addiction,

etc. So what do we do about this? Today I'm talking to the great meditation teacher, Don Maricio.

What you're about to hear is a live conversation we had on Substack a few weeks ago.

We do these conversations every week now.

We meditate and then chop it up, including taking your questions.

The idea is that meditating as a group is a great way to support your practice.

There's plenty of research to back that assertion up. Plus, it's fun. You've heard me say this over and over, but you can go faster in the carpool lane. You can learn better when you have a teacher and a community. If you want to join us for these live sessions, they're every Tuesday at 4 Eastern, sometimes hosted by me solo, sometimes with our teacher of the month.

If you sign up at Dan Harris, you will get an invitation to all of these sessions,

and you will also get the custom guided meditations that now come with all of our Monday,

Wednesday episodes. So you should go check it out, join the party. One other thing to say

very quickly before we dive in here, if you want to meditate with me, IRL, I've got a live taping of this podcast coming up on the 18th of November in New York City. My guest will be the comedian Pete Holmes, who's got a really serious meditation and spiritual practice. He's also very funny. This will be a benefit for the New York

Insight Meditation Center. There's a link in the show notes if you want to sign up. Okay, after the break,

you'll hear me in conversation with Don Maricio about the pesky voice in your head.

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