How To Stop an Anxiety Spiral, The Best Protections Against Financial Ruin, and a Workaholic's Guide to Productivity (and Self-Care) | Andrew Ross Sorkin
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Life hacks life from one of the busiest journalists of our time.
Andrew Ross Sorkin is an award-winning journalist for The New York Times, a co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box, and the founder and editor-at-large of DealBook, an online daily financial report published by The New York Times. His latest book is 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation.
In this episode we talk about:
- The motivation behind his new book
- Human nature –– and why FOMO might be a good thing
- Personal finance hygiene
- The true antidote to irrational financial decisions
- How to cope with financial stress
- Practical tools to stop mental spiraling
- The "Would It Help?" mantra
- The role of Transcendental Meditation (TM) in Andrew's life
- Productivity hacks and life routines
- Calendar blocking vs. to-do lists
- How much you should ––or shouldn't–– share or disclose about yourself with other people
- And much more
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happyer podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:20.8 | Hello, everybody. How we doing? |
| 0:38.5 | Today we've got an unusual guest, given the nature of this podcast. I'm talking to my friend Andrew Ross Sorkin, who's one of the best known and most well-respected financial journalists in the world. I wanted to have Andrew on because he recently wrote a book about the stock market crash of 1929. |
| 0:44.9 | The book says a lot about human nature when it comes to one of the most reliable sources of suffering for myself and many other people, and that is money. So in this conversation, |
| 0:49.3 | you're going to hear us talk about how to manage your anxiety when it comes to money, how not to |
| 0:53.7 | make emotional money decisions, how not to lose your anxiety when it comes to money, how not to make emotional money |
| 0:54.9 | decisions, how not to lose your head and fall prey to fads and fombo, etc. We also take a deep |
| 1:01.9 | dive into Andrew's own productivity hacks, given that he is genuinely one of the busiest people |
| 1:07.0 | in all of media. And just so you know, one of those hacks is meditation, so we'll hear |
| 1:12.5 | about his meditation practice. A little bit more about Andrew Ross Sorgan before we jump in here. |
| 1:17.8 | He writes for the New York Times, where he's the founder and editor at large of Deal Book, |
| 1:22.7 | an online daily financial report. He's also the co-anchor of Squawk Box on CNBC, and he's written two bestsellers, |
| 1:31.1 | Too Big to Fail, and his latest, which is called 1929, inside the greatest crash in Wall Street |
| 1:37.3 | history and how it shattered a nation. Quick reminder to sign up for my new app. It's called |
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| 2:07.7 | We'll get started with Andrew Ross Sorkin right after this. |
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