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10% Happier with Dan Harris

From The One You Feed | A Conversation with Dan Harris

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode from The One You Feed podcast, Dan sits down with host Eric Zimmer and discusses his original skepticism of meditation and the benefits he discovered from developing a regular meditation practice. Listen to The One You Feed for more compelling interviews.

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. It's Dan. Every once in a while here on the show, we'd like to point you in the

0:09.3

direction of another show that you might like. And that's what we're doing today. I recently

0:14.6

was a guest on a podcast called The One You Feed hosted by Eric Zimmer. And we're going to drop

0:21.2

that interview here on this feed as a way to maybe get you interested in the other work that Eric

0:28.0

is doing. In this interview, I talk about what it's been like for me to transition away from my

0:31.6

life in TV news, what I learned from the podcast series we ran a few months ago called Get Fit

0:37.3

Sainly and how I have an inner character that I have nicknamed RJ, who is a gigantic pain in the ass.

0:43.6

It was a great conversation. I hope you enjoyed and maybe you get turned on to all the other stuff

0:48.8

Eric is doing. Check out The One You Feed podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:53.6

These skills of mindfulness, compassion, calm, concentration, the various skills that can be

1:00.5

taught through meditation, you just keep getting better. And there's not as much of a physical

1:04.8

limitations like there's a ceiling on how good I can get it basketball.

1:15.4

Welcome to The One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of

1:20.5

the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.

1:27.6

And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,

1:33.6

self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that

1:40.4

hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes

1:46.9

conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how

1:52.7

other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.

2:11.4

Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Dan Harris. He's the author of the number

2:16.6

one New York Times bestselling memoir, 10% Happier, about a fidgety skeptical news anchor who finds

2:23.0

meditation. He's also the host of the 10% Happier podcast and a co-founder of the 10% Happier

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