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MiB: Dan Harris on Getting “10% Happier”

August 5, 2023

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This week, we converse with journalist and entrepreneur Dan Harris, creator of the New York Occasions bestselling e-book “10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Lowered Stress With out Dropping My Edge, and Discovered Self-Assist That Truly Works–A True Story.” Harris additionally launched the app Ten P.c Happier, and hosts the Wondery podcast “Ten P.c Happier with Dan Harris.” He lives in New York Metropolis.

Harris explains how when he returned house from wartime Iraq protection, he was affected by Despair, Anxiousness, and PTSD; he quickly after started self-medicating. He had an on-air panic assault, which led him to hunt assist.

He will get assigned to cowl fait and spirituality. He learn a e-book by Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth) and located himself intrigued by the concepts. Since nothing else was working for him, he adopted a number of the precepts within the e-book, together with meditation.

We additionally talk about the overlap between good investing recommendation and meditation. The concepts of decreasing noise ranges, specializing in what issues, and eliminating distractions all resonate and enhance leads to each areas.

An inventory of his favourite books is right here; A transcript of our dialog is accessible right here Tuesday.

You may stream and obtain our full dialog, together with any podcast extras, on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts in your favourite pod hosts could be discovered right here.

You’ll want to try our Masters in Enterprise subsequent week with Ted Seides, founding father of Capital Allocators, an advisory platform to managers and allocators. Beforehand, he labored beneath David Swensen on the Yale Investments Workplace, the place he invested straight with three of Yale’s managers. We talk about his well-known guess with Warren Buffett about whether or not a collection of hedge funds might beat the S&P 500 over a decade. (Buffett gained).