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

Hello my fellow suffering beings, how are we doing?

I suspect the following is true for all of us, but I personally cannot count the amount

of times I have made dumb decisions because I have not been thinking clearly.

Today, we've got an ex-spy turned blogger who has spent many, many, many years thinking

about how to think clearly and very specifically thinking about what stops us from thinking

clearly.

His name is Shane Parrish, he runs a very popular site called Pharnam Street, which sends

out a highly subscribed newsletter.

He's also the host of the Knowledge Project Podcast, and now he's got a book called

Clear Thinking, Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results.

In this conversation, we talk about how to position yourself and how to tweak your environment

in order to make better decisions, Shane's method of creating rules or safeguards to position

himself for better decisions, his decision making process, the difference between decisions

and choices, and a key part of decision making, often overlooked, how to know what is actually

worth wanting in the first place.

Whether you're a new listener or a veteran listener, I want to remind you that this show has

a companion meditation app, which is also called 10% happier.

The app is a place you can go to practice what we talk about here on the podcast, and you

can do it with meditations led by some of our most popular podcast guests, like Joseph

Goldstein, Sharon Salverg, and many others.

Sort of like science class in college, the podcast is the lecture, and the app is the

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