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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Manoush Zomorodi, Host of 'Note to Self' Podcast

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

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

4.612.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Manoush Zomorodi, the host of WNYC's "Note to Self" podcast, is an advocate for boredom because allowing our minds to wander, she says, can lead to problem solving and fresh ideas. Her book, "Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self," stems from an experiment in which she convinced more than 20,000 listeners to try to disconnect from their phones, just be bored for a moment and jump-start their creativity. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape

0:09.8

and found me Rob Briden on my podcast. In this series of Briden and I talk to among

0:17.2

others Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

0:23.9

And that's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.

0:29.8

It's terrific conversation, reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

0:36.0

So do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts.

0:39.7

New episodes of Briden and are available early and ad free on Amazon Music or by subscribing

0:45.1

to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.

0:56.5

The Panic is a new comedy podcast from Wondery that leans into our most absurd anxieties and

1:02.6

defuses them with humor and actual advice. Listen to Don't Panic on the Wondery app or

1:08.8

wherever you get your podcasts.

1:17.6

From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

1:24.4

For me, somebody just like them right away. I feel that way about all my guests. But

1:29.3

I really feel that way about Manouche Zemrodi who is my guest this week. In fact, we're

1:34.1

doing a swap. I'm on her podcast. She's on mine. Her podcast is called Note to Self.

1:38.7

It's a huge podcast. It's all about technology having a healthy relationship to technology.

1:45.4

And she wrote a book called Board and Brilliant. Subtitled is House Bashing Out, Can Unlock

1:50.6

Your Most Productive and Creative Self. It's all about our relationship with technology

1:59.6

and sometimes unhealthy relationship with technology, which is a massive, massive issue.

2:04.7

She's thought deeply about it. As you will hear, I think we come at it from slightly different

2:10.7

perspectives, but there's a lot of overlap in the Venn diagram, which we kind of sus out

2:15.2

in the course of this discussion. So if you want to really go for it, listen to this.

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