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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
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 | Harris, Dan
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MatchlessMarie
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I hope it‘s not too late for me to jump on this #10beforetheend challenge. The Litsy algorithm was barely showing me this tag today. Here are 10 books I am hoping to finish before 2025. Great idea @ChaoticMissAdventures 🤩

ChaoticMissAdventures Never too late! Well January 2025 would be I guess! Good luck 🍀 3w
BookmarkTavern The Dictionary of Sorrows is one of my favorites! 💖 2w
MatchlessMarie @Avanders @BookmarkTavern I barely heard about it like a month ago because one of my online friends received it as a gift and posted it. Now I keep hearing great things about it 🖤 2w
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DebinHawaii
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#IdiomInsight

#OnClloudNine means being very happy & content & is said to come from the classifications of clouds with nine being the fluffiest & most attractive. But since “others claim that the phrase comes from Buddhism. In this explanation Cloud Nine is one of the stages of the progress to one who is destined to become a Buddha,” I decided to go with 2 books on my shelf about being happy. The tagged book focuses on meditation & Buddhism. ⛅️

Eggs As always, well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1y
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REPollock
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Pickpick

Not a big memoir reader, but I have an interest in mindfulness, meditation, Buddhism, and so forth. That made this man‘s personal journey juxtaposed with his work as an investigative journalist interesting. Recommend if you‘re interested in such things.

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CSeydel
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I‘m really enjoying this book - I‘m listening to the audiobook read by the author, who was on the news team at ABC and dreamed of anchoring GMA or the Nightly News. I had to laugh when he recounts a meeting with his boss in which the boss bluntly tells him, “You‘ll never be a weekday news anchor. You don‘t have the looks, and your voice is too grating.” He‘s not wrong! When I started the book, it took me a few minutes to get used to his voice.

Ruthiella Stacking! Sounds interesting. 😃 1y
CSeydel @Ruthiella It is! But he‘s very upfront about his prejudices when it comes to meditation and spirituality - it gets frustrating time and again hearing him mock the people he‘s turning to for guidance - but it‘s usually so he can show that he‘s actually been an idiot and his stereotypes are all wrong. It feels he‘s marketing this to people like him, in fast-paced competitive careers, who think meditation is woo-woo nonsense. 1y
CSeydel @Ruthiella point being you have to have a high tolerance for him being pretty rude just to show how much he‘s changed his views 1y
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Ruthiella Thanks for the tip! 👍 1y
GingerAntics Oh I love his voice! I love their app! He was on GMA for a while… until that whole panic attack live on air thing. I think he Co-anchored the weekend GMA for a while. 1y
CSeydel @GingerAntics Good memory! Yes, he was a correspondent for GMA when he had the panic attack, and later he co-anchored the weekend show. He also hosted Nightline for a few years. 1y
GingerAntics @CSeydel oh yeah. I forgot Nightline. I can‘t believe it! If you don‘t like his voice though, Joseph Goldstein will really bug you. I get that he‘s one of Dan‘s first teachers and he seems like a nice guy, but I can‘t do his guided meditations. I just can‘t stand his voice. It‘s so distracting to me. 1y
CSeydel @GingerAntics I actually don‘t mind his voice - I got used to it as the book went along, it just startled me when I first put it on because it‘s very much not a typical audiobook narrator voice. And while I could definitely hear him slip into “newscaster” mode, it‘s a lot different from the honeyed baritone of a typical network anchor! I don‘t mind Goldstein either, but I‘m from the northeast so “old Jewish guy” is a familiar sound in my ears 😄 1y
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JenReadsAlot
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#grateful for Dan Harris and his meditation app! The book was great too! @Eggs

Eggs Sounds great 👍🏼 😀 2y
LauraJ Huge fan of the app! 2y
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Sempernox
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Pickpick

A concise, practical guide to daily meditation written by an extreme skeptic. The author, a journalist and national news anchor, reviews the philosophical, psychological and health benefits of meditation, interspersed with what precipitated his meditative journey via autobiographical snippets.

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tokorowilliamwallace

Back to momentary reflection on life and coping, with ABC correspondent.

“I might have disagreed with the conclusions reached by people of faith, but at least that part of the brain was functioning [the sense of awe which had atrophied]. Every week, they had a set time to consider their place in the universe, to step out of the matrix and achieve some perspective. If you're never looking up, I now realized, you're always just looking around.“

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catsuit_mango
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After a beginning of the morning a bit too stressed, breakfast in the sun, that will make me 10%happier ;)

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MallenNC
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I don‘t read a lot of self help but I really enjoyed this memoir/intro to meditation when I read it a few years back. I probably need to read it again!

#PersonVsSelf #ConflictedWorlds

Eggs This sounds intriguing!! Great choice ❣️ 3y
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Natalierenae
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Finishing 10% Happier by Dan Harris, and I really connected with this quote from a conversation Harris had with Sharon Salzberg.

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Morr_Books
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Almost 4 hours in and read quite a lot of the tagged book on audio while I put mulch on my flower bed. I've never done this before and don't want to repeat this anytime soon, but at least the book did make me at least 10% happier. 😉 @DeweysReadathon #audioyardwork

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rabbitprincess
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I greatly enjoyed this book for its writing style and its content. Will I now give meditation a go? This book certainly makes it more likely.
#ShutdownReadathon book 17

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rabbitprincess
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Chapter 10: The Self-Interested Case for Not Being a Dick 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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rabbitprincess
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I don‘t know how Dan managed to keep himself from laughing when someone in the front row of his silent meditation session produced “an epic burp” 😂😂😂😂

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rabbitprincess
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Dan Harris on a 10-day silent retreat: “Everyone is in his or her own world, trying very hard to stay in the moment. The effort of concentration produces facial expressions that range from blank to defecatory.” 😂😂😂

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rabbitprincess
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« I initially wanted to call this book The Voice in My Head Is an Asshole. However, that title was deemed inappropriate for a man whose day job requires him to abide by FCC decency standards. »

This opening paragraph hooked me IMMEDIATELY ?

TheKidUpstairs 😂😂😂 4y
marleed I really liked this book. 4y
rabbitprincess @marleed I think I‘m going to have to buy my own copy! @TheKidUpstairs It summed up exactly how I feel sometimes! Loved it 🤣 4y
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erinachu
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Dan Harris writing about his own life counts as a biography 😉

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erinachu
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Pickpick

I thought this book would be more of a guide to meditation, but it was actually an autobiography about how Dan Harris came to believe in meditation. I learned a lot and laughed a lot. Dan Harris reading his own book was great!
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marleed I really liked this one too! 5y
TheAromaofBooks I like it when authors read their own books!! 4y
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marleed
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Pickpick

I try to meditate, I really do, and now thanks to this reluctant, skeptical JewBu - I googled to ensure his word was not derogatory for me to use - I‘m giving it another go. ...While reading I may even have been 20% happier! Except for live hurricane watching, I was very late to cable news, and for years my TV news came almost exclusively from ABC. Dan Harris‘s Peter Jennings storied made my day.

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ElizaMarie
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So this #bookishbingo #audiobookbingo #Challenge is one that I have been working on all year.

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ElizaMarie
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Got this one from Libby

#bookishbingo #AprilBingo #Challenge

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ElizaMarie
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Pickpick

So, I enjoyed hearing about his journey to the 10% Happier type of lifestyle. It had a lot of information regarding how he got to where he got. Now if you listen to any of his interviews or his beginner guides on the app you get a lot of the same information. (Just not as great of detail) but it was very well worth the read/listen

#bookishbingo #AprilBingo #Challenge #ChapterBreakBingo

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ElizaMarie

So, I am at the part where he is talking about the retreat he went to. I couldn't imagine going so long without speaking (now that I am social distancing -- when not at work) I don't have anyone to talk to (I FaceTime with my husband so I am not crazy yet) but all day I think to myself... I can easily start talking to the computer, coffee machine, umm... anything!)

I try to meditate (using the app) and still struggle with it but getting better.

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ElizaMarie
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So, because I am using the 10% Happier app and using this as a daily practice to help me go through this working (I am a nurse) during COVID and dealing with the fear and anxiety daily, I decided I should listen to his story. Back story so far is interesting helps me get a more well-rounded understanding of why he began this practice. (Read by the author, which a lot of the app is him too so its a familiar voice that is oddly comforting)

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MariaMC
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How to incorporate techniques of transcendental meditation into a busy schedule and the palpable changes the author experienced.

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Chrissyreadit
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The shelter in place has actually been good for me. I‘ve watched 10% Happier live everyday, and participated in the corresponding meditation. I‘m working on living in the present and not worrying about what I can‘t control. (This is hard since I think trump is dangerous, but I‘m glad the senate and house were able to work together) I‘m loving the communication with my Litsy friends ❤️ Read 2books.

GingerAntics I totally agree with Trump being dangerous. It‘s really hard having no control over him (does anyone?). I didn‘t know there was a 10% Happier live thing everyday. I must look into this. 5y
LauraJ Love 10% Happier live, but miss Toby the cat! Do you join the chat on YouTube? 5y
Chrissyreadit @LauraJ I just hit play on the webpage- but I‘m doing it in the morning the next day, so it‘s technically not live 😂 5y
wanderinglynn Way to go 🙌🏻 Keep up the fantastic progress! 5y
Avanders 👏🏽👏🏽👊🏽 5y
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ElizaMarie
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@Chrissyreadit Thank you again for tagging me on this! I have been practicing this every day (I am on the Basics 2 so far) and I am finding the calm that I desperately needed. Also I want to start yoga soon (once I get good enough service to be able to stream videos -- any recommendations?)

Have you been using this app as well?

#IsolationInteractions

Chrissyreadit I‘m so glad! I‘ve been using the Live daily and love it- but I‘ve not used the app yet. I will. I‘m really proud of just using the website every day. I love the different teachers and how they answer questions. 5y
LauraJ The only app I have a subscription to! It‘s great for helping me sleep. 5y
ElizaMarie @Chrissyreadit I haven't tried looking at the website yet. Maybe I should branch into it. 5y
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ElizaMarie @LauraJ Do you do any specific ones for sleep? Is it something you do right before sleep? I tossed and turned last night and I really should have done one maybe it would have helped! 5y
LauraJ @ElizaMarie Yes, there‘s a sleep section on the app. You do the meditations while you‘re in bed, when it‘s time to 💤 5y
ElizaMarie @LauraJ thanks! I hadn‘t fully explored the app past the “basics” because I‘m trying to learn but... I‘m gonna do a sleep one tonight! Thanks again!!! 5y
LauraJ @ElizaMarie Hope it works! 5y
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Chrissyreadit
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Link to this resource for anyone struggling, anyone supporting others who are struggling and anyone who is interested in general: https://www.tenpercent.com/coronavirussanityguide?utm_campaign=cv_response_websi...

Chrissyreadit @ElizaMarie have you seen this resource? They are offering complete access for free to health care workers. Thought you might be interested. 5y
ElizaMarie Oooo thank you! I‘m gonna look at it right when I get home :) 5y
Chrissyreadit @ElizaMarie I will forward the access link. 5y
ElizaMarie @Chrissyreadit I got the email thank you so much! I am looking at it right now! 5y
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LauraJ
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The 10% Happier app is offering a lot of free content to help deal with our current situation. check it out here: https://www.tenpercent.com/coronavirussanityguide
#KeepLitsyPositive

Karisa Love that app! Much needed these days! 5y
LiteraryinPA Thanks for sharing. I for some reason hadn‘t heard of that project before. 5y
LauraJ @LiteraryinLititz I really like it. Also, the entire app is free for all medical workers. 5y
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Meaw_catlady Just downloaded this! I‘ve been feeling a heaviness in my chest and I need to breathe. 5y
LauraJ @Meaw_catlady Hope it helps! Hugging cats is also helpful if yours is cooperative. 5y
nelehelen Love this 5y
LauraJ @nelehelen The best part is seeing Dan Harris‘ tabby crawl all over him as he meditates. 😹 5y
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Sleepswithbooks AWESOME quote!!!! 5y
TheHeartlandBookFairy @Stacypatrice Thank you, I love the positivity in it ❤️ 5y
Buechersuechtling Oh, I love that. 😍 It‘s so true‼️🤗❤️🤗 5y
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LoverOfLearning What a great reminder. Thanks for sharing! 5y
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BookishBelle
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#FriYayIntro @4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

1. Maybe subconsciously. If I see a pretty cover, I will look at the book more closely.
2. For my soon-to-be mother-in-law who recently had a stroke. Her bday gift this year is all about calm and meditation.
3. I have a news app that I try to ignore. Otherwise, coworkers and fb.
4. Depends on the day.
5. I‘ll tag my new #lmpbc group! @Kappadeemom @Victoriahoperose @phatsallylee

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sebsebseb

Genre: Self-help
Author: Dan Harris
Date Started: 12/17/2019
Date Completed: 12/19/2019
How did you choose this book: Found it online, thought I could use it.
Write a brief summary of the novel:
10% Happier is a book about how to make yourself, well, at least 10% happier. It talks about how you can practice meditation and how it's better to respond to the problem rather than react to them.

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WriterReaderTrainer
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Mehso-so

Dan's narration in the audio version was enjoyable and helped me connect more with his personal journey than I might have, if I had read the hard copy. Dan's honed writing skills, sense of humor and openness to vulnerability added extra spices to the telling of his story. After finishing the book, I've listened to a few of Dan's podcasts (10% Happier podcast) and found them to be both interesting and useful.

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j9brown
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#SelfImprovementSept | Day 6: #SelfHelpBook

Probably the only self-help type book I've ever read, and only because I worked on a Dan Harris show for a while and several copies were floating around the office.
It was okay. Ultimately I don't think meditation is for me, but I'll come back to this book first if I ever do decide to try it. But I do know I'll never be interested in a retreat, it sounded miserable!

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nikirtehsuxlol
Pickpick

Great intro to the benefits of meditation.

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RyeAnnUh
Pickpick

This was good. It took me a while to get through it but I took a lot out of it. I marked it up like crazy- which I've never done to a book before but I think whenever I go to pick it back up those little notes will help me.

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RyeAnnUh
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Getting settled in for my nightly reading with this one. :)

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BookishBelle
Mehso-so

I finished this one a few days ago. I feel like it was a useful read. More memoir than how to though. Meh. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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RyeAnnUh
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I've been having some real problems with my depression lately and started listening to Dan Harris's podcast so I thought I'd pick up his book as well.

I have a pen with me... Now I've never written in a book and just thinking about underlining stuff is kinda giving me some anxiety. Lol. But I know I'm going to want to look back and stuff and read it again( I do not currently have post its with me)

cobwebmoth Sending positive thoughts!❤ 6y
Crazeedi Go ahead and write in it! You will find it helps to remember. Sending a big virtual hug and uplifting thoughts your way💞 6y
DocBrown Hang in there! 6y
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dreamnthegarden
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I finished this ebook a few days ago and found it really enjoyable. Alot of great advice on being mindful and handling stressful situations.

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BookishBelle
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Getting in some #LunchtimeReading today. #booknlunch This one isn‘t quite what I expected but it is good.

Stacy_31 It was good but I thought he took waaaaayyy too long to get to the point of what helped. 6y
robinb Yummm...that looks like butter beans (aka lima) and cornbread?! Delish!! 6y
BookishBelle @Stacy_31 Yes, he has taken forever! I‘m about halfway through now. 6y
BookishBelle Yes, @robinb ! Those are butter beans and cornbread! They were yummy! 6y
robinb @BookishBelle Those are two of my favorite foods. 😊👍 6y
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“The fact that you exist is a highly statistically improbable event, and if you are not perpetually surprised by the fact that you exist you don‘t deserve to be here” (p.80). I‘ll drink to that😌

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kayyysaunders
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I actually listened to the audiobook, which I would highly recommend. Dan Harris comes to meditation with high levels of skepticism and humor. He makes the metaphysical more palatable and actually got me practicing meditation, so there's win for sure! He narrates the audiobooks himself and he's very conversational so it just ends up a really fun listen.

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candority
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I decided to start my #newyearwhodis readathon with a book outside of my typical genre realm, and, unfortunately, it didn‘t work for me. As a Canadian, I have never heard of or seen Dan Harris, an American news anchor, before picking up this book, and perhaps I would have enjoyed his story more if I could put a face/personality to the words. While this is a So-So, I fully believe that I will enjoy the rest of @LauraJ‘s suggestions much more!

VeganCleopatra I'm American and know who he is and I still didn't enjoy it. 😏 6y
monalyisha Good for you for trying something that you wouldn‘t normally read! I‘m not often that brave. 😆 6y
tracey38 I'm American and I have no ni idea who he is either! 6y
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candority @VeganCleopatra Whoops, I guess I can‘t use that as my scapegoat 😅 6y
candority @monalyisha Thank you! I wouldn‘t normally either, but I figured I might as well for the sake of the readathon! 6y
candority @tracey38 Ahaha whoops 💁‍♀️ In the book, he talks about all the fantastic reporting he‘s done over the years. It‘s obvious that he has a bit of an inflated ego though! 6y
VeganCleopatra Haha I wasn't trying to imply that, I was just commiserating. 6y
candority @VeganCleopatra Ahaha I know! 😁 6y
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Nute
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I‘ve decided to deliberately choose happiness and positivity at all future opportunities. I think it might be difficult to accomplish as a goal because some experiences are truly heart wrenching and stressful. It‘s been a tough year health wise for my father and yesterday I realized how the illness of one family member impacts the entire family. The goal is small so that it is achievable. 10% like this book.👇🏽

Nute Ten percent quieter, ten percent easier-going, ten percent more of taking my time...of slowing down life, ten percent increased time doing the things that I like to do, ten percent more kindness to others, ten percent more saying yes, ten percent more saying no...are these things possible? This book came to mind. I don‘t know if it instructs, guides or just tells his personal journey...I‘ll give it a go. 6y
DivineDiana Interested to hear your thoughts! So true about the illness of one family member impacting all. 6y
MicheleinPhilly It instructs, guides, and tells. I loved this book. 6y
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MEGR His podcast is good as well. Through the podcast I found Light Watkins, author of Bliss More and liked his book as well. 6y
Lreads I think this is a healthy and wonderful idea that we should all do! I‘m sorry you‘ve had a rough time but I truly hope you can make these things work for you. 💕 6y
tealwish I really gained a lot from this book! He is honest about what goes on in his head, and I could relate. Hope it gives you something positive as well. 6y
AlaMich I appreciated the way Harris uses humor in the book. He came to meditation like a lot of people do, a bit skeptically and uncertain whether he‘d be able to do it. I think readers relate to that. 6y
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It's barely a quote but referring to Norman Vincent Peale's Power of Positive Thinking as a "canonical turd" has to be memorialized. ???

Zelma I have been wanting to read this book for eons. I may try to get the audio for an upcoming road trip. 6y
Sace @Zelma I am really enjoying the audio. I can't imagine just reading being as entertaining. 6y
GingerAntics Dan really goes have some good gems. He‘s not afraid to say anything. He‘s just awesome!!! 6y
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Sace @GingerAntics sometimes it does seem like straight memoir or self help but then he throws in something hilarious. 6y
RadicalReader @RestlessFickleBookHoarder best adjective I have ever heard of in my life 2018 officially forever awesome 6y
Zelma @RestlessFickleBookHoarder good to hear. I‘ve heard him in interviews and he seems quite engaging. I am pleased that the audio is good. 6y
GingerAntics The funny thing is, at least in the videos on the app, he doesn‘t seem to be trying to be funny. He‘s just being himself and saying what‘s going through his mind. lol in one video from their coast to coast tour for the app some famous actor or something leads this meditation and it‘s really weird and Dan just makes this face like “uuuuuuuuuh...oooookaaaaaay.” lol 6y
Sace @RadicalReader Right? It's like I want to make a list of all the canonical turds out there. I'm sure there are more. 6y
Sace @GingerAntics that's probably exactly why I find him so funny! 6y
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Sace
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I do not want to walk this morning. I want to be a slug and stay in bed. Maybe listening to Dan will at least make it less painful. I'm enjoying this one so far. I highly recommend audiobooking this one.

ETA: I haven't gotten into the meditation bits yet and I'm really hoping that doesn't ruin everything. I am pretty skeptical.

GingerAntics I‘ve watched several of his videos and even have the app. He doesn‘t make mediation all weird. It shouldn‘t make the book weird. He was a skeptic, so he‘s all about the skepticism. He‘s actually quite humorous about it. 6y
Sace @GingerAntics agreed. I am really liking this and I've laughed aloud several times. 6y
GingerAntics Having the app and watching the videos on the app made me want to read this book. I never thought to look at the library for it. No idea why. 6y
Sace @GingerAntics I might check out the app. I love how the app store bills it as the least annoying meditation app. 😂 6y
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stephani06
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Happiness = dinner and a book

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cera979
Pickpick

An interesting perspective, especially if you never thought you could meditate but wondered why you might want to.

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Lauram
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Pickpick

“Once you get the hang of it, the practice can create just enough space in your head so that when you get angry or annoyed, you are less likely to take the bait and act on it. There‘s even science to back this up—an explosion of new research, complete with colorful MRI scans, demonstrating that meditation can essentially rewire your brain.”

I enjoyed reading about his transformation.

Trashcanman Pleased to meet you I'm the Trashcanman 😊 6y
Lauram @Trashcanman Thank you. It‘s nice to meet you too. 6y
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