How to Engage with Technology Without Losing Your Mind | Soren Gordhamer

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

How not to forget what actually matters.

Soren Gordhamer is the host of Wisdom 2.0, a conference about mindfulness and compassion in the modern age. He's also a Co-Founder and General Partner of Wisdom Ventures, which invests in companies creating a more just and compassionate world. His new book is called THE ESSENTIAL: Discovering What Really Matters in an Age of Distraction.

In this episode we talk about:

What Soren means by "the essential"
The current and future impact of AI on the economy, our mental health, and society at large
What Soren thinks the world looks like in 5, 10, 15 years from now
Useful strategies for managing technology with an iota of balance and wisdom
How to get familiar with the unseen stories that run your life—so that they Don't have so much power over you
The number one question for our time, per Soren
Whether or not we humans are actually going to do this "essential" work before it's too late
Whether the people designing these systems have the best interest of the species at heart

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0:35.6	It's the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:39.1	Hello, everybody. How we doing?
0:52.5	We are living in a time of mass distraction, a time when it's incredibly easy to get pulled away from all the things that actually matter and that actually make you happy. We're also living through dizzying change and disruption. The pace of technology, the pace of technological, political, social, cultural, and climate change can feel
1:13.1	deeply destabilizing. So how do you upgrade your mind to maintain some degree of sanity,
1:20.2	equanimity, and resilience in the face of all of this? Might it actually be possible to turn
1:26.0	this chaos into an opportunity?
1:29.1	This is what my guest today has been thinking about for decades.
1:32.4	Soren Gordhammer sits at the fascinating intersection of contemplative traditions and modern
1:38.3	technology.
1:39.8	He's the host of Wisdom 2.0, a conference about mindfulness and compassion in the modern age.
1:45.2	He's also a co-founder and general partner of Wisdom Ventures, which invests in companies
1:50.2	creating a more just and compassionate world.
1:53.0	He's got a new book called The Essential in which he explores how we, both as individuals and as a species, can train our minds at a moment when our survival may actually depend on upgrading and training our minds.
2:05.3	We talk about what Soren means by the essential, the current and future impact of AI on the economy, on our mental health, on society at large.
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