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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

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.612.9K 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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Transcript

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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

1:43.1

10% with Dan Harris. You can get it if you go to Dan Harris.com. There's a free 14-day trial if you want to try it before you buy it. We've got a lot of stuff going on there. We do weekly live video meditation and Q&A sessions. We also have a growing library of meditations from some of the greatest teachers on earth.

2:04.3

Sign up, Dan Harris.com, join the party.

2:07.7

We'll get started with Andrew Ross Sorkin right after this.

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