You Don’t Have to be Miserable While Doing Important Work | adrienne maree brown

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Our culture has oddly conflicting views about pleasure.

In this episode, author adrienne maree brown explores the importance of pleasure and how it changes your experience of the world.

adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia’s Parables and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit.

In this conversation we talked about:

What is pleasure activism
The role of sex and drugs
Why we should say yes more
How to be in touch with our sense of “enough”
The role of gratitude
The line between commitment and detachment
How she defines authentic happiness
Her self-description as “a recovering self-righteous organizer,” and why self-righteousness actually leads to powerlessness

Content Warning: Discussions of sex and drugs.

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast.
0:05.9	I'm Dan Harris.
0:10.1	Hey everybody, our culture has some oddly conflicting views on the subject of pleasure.
0:18.0	On the one hand, we're obsessed with it.
0:20.0	Look no further than the thriving gambling alcohol and porn industries.
0:24.4	On the other hand, we also seem to be opposed to pleasure for murky, perhaps, puritanical
0:29.7	reasons.
0:31.3	My guess today is here to argue that pleasure is incredibly important, not only for your
0:36.0	personal well-being, but also because when you experience more pleasure, that changes
0:41.0	how you are in the world.
0:42.4	So there are geopolitical consequences here.
0:45.9	Adrian Marie Brown is the author of a book called Pleasure Activism, the Politics of
0:50.3	Feeling Good.
0:51.3	She's the writer and residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and she's the
0:55.8	co-host of several podcasts, including How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's
1:00.4	Parables, and Emergent Strategy.
1:03.5	In this conversation, we talked about what, in her view, pleasure activism is.
1:08.3	We talk about the role of sex and drugs.
1:10.4	Why we should say yes more?
1:12.1	How saying no, however, can help us to our yes?
1:16.4	How to be in touch with a sense of enough?
1:19.3	The role of gratitude, the line between commitment and detachment, and how she defines authentic
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