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Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris Wondery
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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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Beyond the Cliché: What Is Joy, Really? And How Do You Access It? | Bonus Meditation with La Sarmiento
This episode comes out for free on December 17th, and is available early and ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers.
Cultivate resilience by choosing to turn towards joy, and transform difficult times into growth opportunities and heartache into gratitude.
About La Sarmiento:
La Sarmiento is a mentor for the MIndfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) and a teacher with Cloud Sangha. They have taught meditation retreats for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Teens, and Young Adults, and everyone in-between around the United States since 2010 and are a 2012 graduate of the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader Training.
To find this meditation in the Ten Percent Happier app, you can search for “Opening to Joy.”
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Sam Harris on: Vipassana vs. Dzogchen, Looking for the Looker, and Psychic Powers
This episode comes out for free on Dec 13th, and is available early and ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers.
Frequent guest Sam Harris discusses life after quitting Twitter and the metaphysics of meditation along with special co-host and brother Matt Harris.
Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, and author of five New York Times best sellers. His work covers a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, political polarization, rationality—but generally focuses on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. His books include The End of Faith, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, and Waking Up. Sam hosts the popular Making Sense podcast and is the creator of the Waking Up app, which offers a modern approach to living a more examined life, through both in-depth mindfulness training and secular wisdom. Sam has practiced meditation for over 30 years and has studied with many Tibetan, Indian, Burmese, and Western meditation teachers, both in the United States and abroad. He holds a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
In this episode we talk about:
- The psychological benefits of quitting Twitter
- Vipassana meditation vs. Dzogchen
- The practice of looking for the looker
- Sam’s views on the metaphysics of meditation and psychic powers
Full Shownotes:https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/sam-harris-2023
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Ancient Secrets to Modern Happiness | Tamar Gendler
This episode comes out for free on December 11th, and is available early and ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers.
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What the ancient Greek philosophers discovered about how to do life better.
Tamar Gendler is dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University. Her Open Yale course “Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature” has hundreds of thousands of views. An updated version of this course will be available on the Coursera website this spring.
In this episode we talk about:
- The tension between our animal nature and our spiritual/intellectual nature
- How to define concepts such as “virtue”, “morality” and “the soul”
- Whether living a moral life actually makes you happy
- The similarities and differences between ancient Greek philosophy & Buddhism
- And how Tamar has applied all of this to her own life
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- How (and Why) to Hug Your Inner Dragons | Richard Schwartz
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Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/tamar-gendler
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Can’t Stop Thinking? Try This | Bonus Meditation with Cara Lai
Not thinking is not the point of mindfulness. We know, shocking! Emotions and thoughts are inextricably linked: know them to know yourself.
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Kelly Ripa On: The Upside of Anxiety, the Case for Marriage Counseling, and Growing Older in Public
The longtime TV host and actor talks about working onscreen with her husband, her fear of public speaking, and what she does instead of sitting meditation.
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Jack Kornfield & Yung Pueblo On: How To Meditate When You’re Freaking Out, the Limits of the Thinking Mind, & Balancing Self-Interest with Compassion
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.
Customer Reviews
If I had to pick just one - THIS IS IT!
There is so much amazing content in the podcast world. It can be overwhelming and sometimes maddening to know what to listen to when you only have an hour.
If I had to pick just ONE podcast it would be TPH. It checks the box on being entertained AND learning how to do life better (for yourself and everyone around you). I’m not exaggerating when I say that it has been life changing in the best possible way. It inspires, entertains, educates, soothes, nurtures, cracks open my curiosity, gives me much needed perspective, makes me laugh, and makes me think. It’s the ideal dose of ideas, information and great conversation. Dan Harris is an excellent interviewer and very relatable. He’s the perfect balance of skeptical, curious, and funny. He gets great guests and gets them to open up. Many of the best authors/books I’ve read the last few years, I’ve found here.
If you haven’t listened - give it a go, it’s a wonderful return on your time, and can change your life.
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!