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Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris Wondery
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4.6 • 10.9K Ratings
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Dan Harris is a fidgety, skeptical journalist who had a panic attack on live national television, which led him to try something he otherwise never would have considered: meditation. He went on to write the bestselling book, 10% Happier. On this show, Dan talks with eminent meditation teachers, top scientists, and even the odd celebrity. Guests include everyone from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Brené Brown to Karamo from Queer Eye. On some episodes, Dan ventures into the deep end of the pool, covering subjects such as enlightenment and psychedelics. On other episodes, it’s science-based techniques for issues such as anxiety, productivity, and relationships. Dan's approach is seemingly modest, but secretly radical: happiness is a skill you can train, just like working your bicep in the gym. Your progress may be incremental at first, but like any good investment, it compounds over time.
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Jack Kornfield and Yung Pueblo Explain How To Balance Self-Interest with Taking Care of Other People
This episode comes out for free on December 6, and is available early and ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers.
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One's a legend, the other's a phenom. Together, they offer practical wisdom for maintaining your daily meditation practice, handling conflict, connecting with community, and understanding the limits of the mind.
Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, India, and Burma. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. He is the author of 16 books which have sold 2 million copies, and the co-founder of Cloud Sangha.
Diego Perez is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who is widely known on Instagram and various social media networks through his pen name, Yung Pueblo. Online he has an audience of over 3 million people. Diego’s books are Inward, Clarity & Connection, Lighter, and The Way Forward.
In this episode we talk about:
- How and why to maintain a daily meditation practice
- The importance of community
- The limits of the thinking mind
- How to handle conflict
- How to love without being attached
Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/jack-kornfield-and-yung-pueblo
Further resources:
Jack Kornfield is a co-founder of Cloud Sangha, where you can turn your challenges into compost for growth and change. Come use your real-life experiences to rehearse living mindfully so you can be the best version of yourself, more often. Join us online to navigate the ups and downs of life together, and find inner freedom along the way. Use the code "TENPERCENTHAPPIER" to receive 30% off.
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How to Reframe Your “Problems” as “Puzzles” | A.J. Jacobs
This episode comes out for free on December 4th, and is available early and ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers.
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A counterintuitive way to become more clear, creative, and persistent, via a writer who calls himself a “human guinea pig.”
A.J. Jacobs is an author, journalist, podcaster, and human guinea pig. His new podcast “The Puzzler” is produced by iHeart and is in the Top 20 Apple Podcasts. He has written four New York Times bestsellers that combine memoir, science, humor and a dash of self-help. Among his books are “The Year of Living Biblically” and “The Know-It-All.” He has told several Moth stories, has given several TED talks that have amassed over 10 million views. His latest book is “The Puzzler,” which Booklist called “ridiculously entertaining,” and The New York Times called “a romp, both fun and funny.”
In this episode we talk about:
- The “puzzle mindset” and how it can change the way you approach your problems
- Creating a puzzle that will take billions of years to solve
- How puzzles can help us during dark times
- The dark side of the puzzling world
- How his gratitude project made him better at talking to himself
- Learning to appreciate everyday objects and people he sees all the time
- How pretending to be a good person helped him actually learn to be one – most of the time
Full Shownotes:https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/aj-jacobs-688
Additional Resources:
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A Meditation for When You’re Nursing a Grudge | Bonus Meditation with Oren Jay Sofer
This episode comes out for free on December 1st, and is available early and ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers.
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Make peace with pettiness through good old understanding.
About Oren Jay Sofer:
Oren Jay Sofer teaches mindfulness, meditation and Nonviolent Communication. He has practiced meditation since 1997, beginning his studies in Bodh Gaya, India and is a long-time student of Joseph Goldstein, Michele McDonald, and Ajahn Sucitto, and is a graduate of the IMS/Spirit Rock Teacher Training program. Oren teaches retreats across the country and works as Senior Program Developer at Mindful Schools, teaching and developing curricula for one of the international leaders of mindfulness in education.
To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, you can search for “Soothing Resentment’s Burn.”
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How To Be Less Anxious and More Useful in a Chaotic World | Oren Jay Sofer
Buddhist strategies for navigating tumult— and even becoming a node of sanity amidst it all.
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Can Anxiety Be a Gift? | Dr. David Rosmarin
This guest says you can thrive with anxiety. And the trick is learning to get comfortable with discomfort.
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Gratitude for Fidgety Skeptics | Bonus Meditation with Matthew Hepburn
Learn the skill of not taking sh*t for granted.
Customer Reviews
Jerry Colonna
I listened to the recent interview with Jerry for the second time this morning while making a sweet potato Thanksgiving casserole!
The topics that you touched on are so important and the context that Jerry brings to the work of knowing oneself and the work we are to do in the equity space was illuminating for me!
Thanks for what you do and happy thanksgiving to the 10% happier bunch.
Thank you!
Dear Dan:
Thank you for this podcast, it is a gift that has changed my life. I had dabbled in meditation in the past but lacked consistent effort and results. I got into podcasts during the pandemic and heard Ten Percent Happier in April of 2020. This podcast helped get me through the pandemic, has gotten me into meditating consistently daily, and I feel like a new person. I am more calm, less reactive and emotional, my social and work relationships have improved, my health is better. I am 99% happier! I have really enjoyed the guests you have had on the show and have gotten so much great reading material and information. I went on a retreat at Spirit Rock last spring, my first retreat, and just did my second retreat a couple of weeks ago. I am taking an 8 month course through Spirit Rock and am trying to bring the dharma into my life daily at a time so it’s so badly needed. Thank you again!
Where’s the podcast
Tried to listen, got through 5 minutes of adds with no end in sight. Turned it off.