It's the 10% happier podcast, I'm your host, your boy Dan Harris.

Hello everybody.

Today we've got a wide ranging interview with Zach Braff, he's one of those rare famous

people who's really willing to go there.

We talk about a lot of stuff here, anxiety, depression, insomnia, addiction, grief, social

media usage, and what he means by these phrases, learning to love your likes and learning

to love your fate.

That second notion, he feels so strongly about that he literally tattooed it on his wrist.

You may know Zach from the TV show Scrubs or the movie Garden State, but this dude is

a genuine multi-hyphenate, he's a true triple threat, he acts, writes, and directs, and that

includes his own movies and other people's stuff.

He's actually directed on Ted Lasso over on Apple TV, plus I know a lot of people who listen

to this show, love that show.

Relatively recently Zach put out another of his own movies, which he wrote and directed.

It's called A Good Person, and it stars Florence Pew and Morgan Freeman and has a lot of

resonant themes for this show and this audience, so we talk about that movie a little bit

among many other things.

We conducted this interview in person at the Ted conference in Vancouver a few months

back, always cool to do interviews in person, just to say, and this is important, at least

to me, I've mentioned this before I think, but we're starting to experiment with some new

formats on Fridays, historically, as many of you know, we've posted full interviews

on Mondays and Wednesdays and then bonus meditations on Friday, but now we're going to start

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