The Dharma of Work | Matthew Hepburn
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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The office might be one of the most difficult places to not side with yourself, but it's a concept that can help you navigate challenging situations at work.
Matthew is a meditation and dharma teacher with more than a decade of teaching experience and a passion for getting real about what it means to live well. He emphasizes humor, technique, and authentic kindness as a means to free the mind from unnecessary struggle and leave a healthier impact on the world.
Beyond Ten Percent Happier, Matthew has taught in prisons, schools, corporate events and continues to teach across North America in buddhist centers offering intensive silent retreats and dharma for urban daily life.
In this episode we talk about:
- How to change your relationship to your thoughts
- How to navigate the highs of praise and the lows of blame
- How to handle relationships at work when giving or receiving feedback
- How to bring your mindfulness practice to your workplace
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| 0:00.0 | It's the 10% happier podcast, I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:20.6 | Hello everybody, some of the worst fights of my life have happened at work. |
| 0:26.6 | Most of them, I hate to say were my fault, which is embarrassing but true, however lately |
| 0:31.7 | I have been trying to use a little phrase I picked up from my meditation teacher and |
| 0:36.5 | friend Joseph Goldstein. |
| 0:38.7 | The phrase is this, don't side with yourself. |
| 0:42.0 | Today on this episode we're going to talk about how to do one of the hardest but most rewarding |
| 0:46.7 | things a human being can try to do to get over yourself and see contentious issues from |
| 0:51.9 | somebody else's perspective. |
| 0:53.9 | My experience, not siding with myself, is especially hard in a work context, it's hard |
| 0:59.6 | in any context, but especially hard at work. |
| 1:02.5 | In the office I can find my ego digging trenches and then just like refusing to cease fire. |
| 1:07.0 | In fact work can be one of the most difficult places to apply any meditative concept like |
| 1:11.4 | mindfulness or patience or kindness. |
| 1:15.0 | Many of us are diligent or semi-diligent or simply aspiring meditators and we might |
| 1:20.3 | find that once in a while we get on a good streak of practice but then our humble to |
| 1:24.4 | find out that we are subconsciously ruling out work as a place to bring our practice to |
| 1:30.5 | apply it. |
| 1:31.8 | However work can be an amazing crucible or testing ground or dojo for your attempts at meditation |
| 1:37.2 | and other forms of self-improvement and we have the perfect guest today to discuss all |
| 1:42.1 | of this. |
| 1:43.1 | Unlike many meditation teachers, Matthew Hepburn has spent a lot of time at work. |
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