The Upsides And Downsides Of Living A More Examined Life | Matt Harris

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Do you struggle to fit meditation into a busy life? Check out this candid conversation with Dan’s younger brother, Matt.

Matt Harris is partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where he’s developed an expertise in Fintech, or financial technology. He’s also a father of six incredible children. He is 17 months younger than Dan, to the day. And as you will hear, he likes to make fun of his neurotic brother. In fact, he shows up a lot in Dan's first book, 10% Happier, mocking Dan for his budding interest in meditation.

In this episode we talk about:

Practical tips from Joseph Goldstein
The books that have been integral to Matt's process
Tips on starting a practice.
The biggest issues for meditators
How not to try too hard
How awareness of the ego impacts work,
The upsides and downsides of living a more examined life.

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0:00.0	Hey Dan here, before we start the show, I want to tell you about a live recording of this
0:04.0	podcast that we're doing in New York City on March 28th. I will be interviewing two frequent
0:10.6	flyers from this show, the legendary meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein
0:14.2	who will be just coming off a three-month solo silent meditation retreat and
0:18.2	Dr Mark Epstein a Buddhist therapist and best-selling author. The event will actually be a
0:24.0	celebration of the 10th anniversary of my first book, 10% happier, and a percentage of
0:28.6	the proceeds will go to the New York Insight Meditation Center. Come early if you want for a VIP guided meditation
0:35.2	and Q&A with me.
0:37.2	Thanks to our friends over at audible
0:38.9	for sponsoring this show and the event.
0:41.2	Tickets on sale right now at symphony space.org.
0:44.5	This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody we are running a bit of an experiment on the show today
1:08.5	this is a much more personal episode although I'm pretty confident it's also going to have
1:13.9	practical and universal takeaways as the title of this episode suggests it's all
1:20.0	about what happened when one of the smartest, busiest, and most skeptical people
1:24.8	I know started meditating in a very deep and committed way. The person in
1:29.6	question is my younger brother, my only brother, Matt Harris.
1:34.0	One of the most common questions I get is,
1:36.3	how do you convince the people in your life
1:38.6	to start meditating?
1:40.2	And my answer is, generally, don't try.
1:43.0	One of the jokes I like to tell is about a New Yorker cartoon I saw many years ago.
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