EP 345: 10% Happier with Dan Harris

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

On this special New Year’s Day episode, Annie Grace welcomes Dan Harris, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the co-anchor of ABC's weekend editions of Good Morning America. Dan is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, 10% Happier and Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, the host of the Ten Percent Happier Podcast, and he has an app called Ten Percent Happier.

In her book, This Naked Mind, Annie includes Dan in the acknowledgments for “bringing practicality and humor to the journey into the mind.” Today, she and Dan talk about how meditation breaks the spell and puts some distance between you and your thoughts -- including different kinds of meditation, the benefits of mindfulness, how experimenting with the warmth of self-love and self-compassion can help you stick to your goals, hugging your dragon, and the concept of “dailyish.”

I'm so excited you guys, because we are just about to start another live alcohol experiment. If you do not know about the alcohol experiment, you need to literally drop everything right now and go to thisnakedmind.com/lae. That's L-A-E for Live Alcohol Experiment. And here's the thing, this 30 day challenge is designed to interrupt your patterns and put you back in touch with the best version of you. You'll know it's that version that's living the most joyful life. That version that doesn't need alcohol to relax or have a good time. And that version that's having more fun and is more peaceful than ever. Again, it's a 30 day challenge. It's live. It's starting on the 1st so hurry up, go to thisnakedmind.com/lae.

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Episode Links:

Ten Percent Happier Website

10% Happier by Dan Harris

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,
0:16.0	pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:19.8	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. I am here with probably the most exciting guest for me that I have yet had on this podcast.
0:38.8	I'm like a little bit having a moment over here, but let me read his official bio.
0:43.8	Dan Harris is an Emmy award winning journalist in the co anchor of ABC's Weekend Ditions of Good Morning America.
0:49.8	He is the author of Two New York Times Best Sellers, 10% Happier and Meditation for Fijitis Give It. Skeptics.
0:55.8	He went on to launch the 10th Century Sent Happier podcast, which is amazing, and an app called 10% Happier.
1:01.8	He lives in New York with his wife Bianca and their son Alexander and their three cats.
1:06.8	So welcome, Dan. Thanks so much for being here.
1:09.8	Thank you. I really appreciate it. Nice to meet you virtually.
1:12.8	Yeah, it's awesome. So let me tell you a little bit about our history that you don't yet know.
1:21.8	You are in my book, actually. You're in the acknowledgment.
1:26.8	So I only acknowledged a few people. Most of them are actually dead, but you were one of the live people.
1:31.8	And I said, Dan Harris, author of 10% Happier for bringing practicality and humor to the journey into the mind.
1:38.8	And it was so 10% Happier was such a big book for me because my dad, although I didn't know it at the time until you taught me, is a juboo, a Jewish Buddhist.
1:50.8	And he left. He grew up in the Bronx. He left New York City.
1:53.8	He moved to the back side of the mountain in Colorado with into a cabin with no running water, no electricity, nothing with the motor until I was born.
2:02.8	And he had a he had to buy a chainsaw to cut wood to keep the cabin more. And just completely sort of hermitted himself to meditate and to live on a mountain top.
2:14.8	And that's where he is now, almost 50 years later.
2:17.8	And when I was growing up, meditation was such a big thing in my house.
2:21.8	Like my parents literally meditated a lot. And my mom still sits for like an hour and a half a day.
2:28.8	And I remember thinking as most kids do, okay, well, I'm going to try to learn this too.
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