The Skeptics Guide To Meditation With Dan Harris
The Science of Success
Matt Bodnar
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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In this episode we discuss how our guest went from a hard-nosed skeptic who thought most self help was BS, to someone who uncovered the evidence based growth strategies that actually work. We talk about our guest’s journey from meeting self help gurus, to spiritual teachers, and neuroscientists to discover the biggest lessons about improving your mind and body, and the simple, scientifically validated tool that evidence demonstrates is the best way to be happier with Dan Harris.
Dan Harris is a correspondent for ABC News and the co-anchor for the weekend edition of Good Morning America. Dan regularly contributes to Nightline, 20/20, and World News and has covered stories from all over the world including war reporting in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as investigative reports in Haiti, Cambodia, the Congo and more. Dan is the author of the book 10% Happier and his work has been featured in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Dr. OZ, Good Morning America, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | com.uk-Uk slash Wondery. That's audible.combe.uk slash Wondery. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to the science of success. Introducing your host, Matt Bodner. Welcome to the science of success, introducing your host, Matt Bodner. |
| 0:22.9 | Welcome to the Science of Success, the number one evidence-based growth podcast on the internet, |
| 0:28.9 | with more than a million downloads and listeners in over 100 countries. |
| 0:32.6 | Today is a very special episode on the Science of Success. This is episode 100. |
| 0:39.4 | I couldn't imagine more than two years ago when we set out to start doing this show that we would do over 100 episodes |
| 0:43.2 | that we would interview so many amazing, incredible experts. But I'm super excited today. |
| 0:47.6 | In this episode, we're going to discuss how our guest went from a hard-nosed skeptic who thought |
| 0:53.0 | self-help was BS to someone who uncovered |
| 0:55.7 | the evidence-based growth strategies that actually work. We talk about our guest's journey |
| 1:00.4 | from meeting self-help gurus to spiritual leaders and neuroscientists to discover the biggest |
| 1:05.6 | lessons about improving your mind and body and the simple, scientifically validated tools |
| 1:10.7 | that evidence demonstrates |
| 1:11.7 | are the best way to be happier with our guest, Dan Harris. I'm going to give you four |
| 1:17.7 | reasons why you should join our email list today by going to successpodcast.com and signing up |
| 1:21.8 | right on the homepage. Yeah, there's an extra fourth reason today. Why is that? Well, the fourth |
| 1:27.0 | reason, I guess really we're going to start with the first reason, I have something special that we're going to do in honor of our 100th episode of the Science of Success. But you have to be on the email list to be part of it. So if you're not on the email list, you're not going to be eligible. In fact, you're not even going to hear anything else about this surprise, but it's going to be awesome. We're doing something really special for the 100th episode only for the people on the email list. So you should definitely sign up. Next, if you sign up on the email list, you're going to get an awesome free guide that we created based on listener demand. Our most popular guide, it's called How to Organize and Remember Everything. You can get it |
| 2:02.0 | completely for free, along with another surprise bonus guide that you have to sign up to get |
| 2:06.7 | by joining the email list today. You're also going to get a curated weekly email from us |
| 2:11.2 | every single week called Mindset Monday, which listeners have been absolutely loving. It's a short, |
| 2:16.8 | simple list of articles, stories, and things that we found exciting in the last week. |
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