Dan Harris

10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story

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#1 New York Times Bestseller
REVISED WITH NEW MATIERAL
Winner of the 2014 Living Now Book Award for Inspirational Memoir
“An enormously smart, clear-eyed, brave-hearted, and quite personal look at the benefits of meditation.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert
Nightline anchor Dan Harrisembarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable.
After having a nationally televised panic attack, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help guru, and a gaggle of brain scientists. Eventually, Harris realized that the source of his problems was the very thing he always thought was his greatest asset: the incessant, insatiable voice in his head, which had propelled him through the ranks of a hypercompetitive business, but had also led him to make the profoundly stupid decisions that provoked his on-air freak-out.
Finally, Harris stumbled upon an effective way to rein in that voice, something he always assumed to be either impossible or useless: meditation, a tool that research suggests can do everything from lower your blood pressure to essentially rewire your brain. 10% Happier takes readers on a ride from the outer reaches of neuroscience to the inner sanctum of network news to the bizarre fringes of America’s spiritual scene, and leaves them with a takeaway that could actually change their lives.
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311 printed pages
Publication year
2019
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  • Drake Nixshared an impression7 years ago
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    An approach to mindfulness and meditation that acknowledges reality and sets reasonable expectations for the true benefits one can expect.

  • Vicki Xirakiashared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading

Quotes

  • Henrik Ulrik Anker Hansenhas quoted5 years ago
    Tolle was forcing me to confront the fact that the thing I’d always thought was my greatest asset—my internal cattle prod—was also perhaps my greatest liability. I was now genuinely questioning my own personal orthodoxy, my “price of security” mantra, which had been my operating thesis since, like, age eight. All of a sudden, I didn’t know: Was it propulsive—or corrosive?
  • mata31has quoted7 years ago
    The voice comes braying in as soon as we open our eyes in the morning, and then heckles us all day long with an air horn. It’s a fever swamp of urges, desires, and judgments. It’s fixated on the past and the future, to the detriment of the here and now
  • Patricia Rodil Ghas quoted4 years ago
    Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel

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