Dan Harris
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319 appearances
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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A lot of our pain and suffering on a daily basis comes from fronting, from pretending we're something that we're not.
Yeah, that we're just, we have a, we have a, we've built a brand we've created online that doesn't quite match up with who we know we are.
And the difference, the delta there, is the source of an enormous amount of suffering, I think.
I think a certain amount of that is true, but you don't want to fake it too much so that you're not a real person.
How are we doing?
The Don Lemon Show · SECRET TO HAPPINESS? Watch Dan Harris on The Don Lemon Show · 21 Apr 2024
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Well, there was kind of an overlap.
I wrote a book called 10% Happier and it came out 10 years ago.
And you could have made the case that I might have switched then because the book was reasonably successful and I started a podcast and a meditation app and whatever.
But I loved being a journalist, so I didn't really want to leave that.
And if I'm honest, I was very anxious, and I still am anxious.
Sometimes people will say to me, you're very anxious for a meditation guy.
And I'm like, you have the causality wrong.
I'm a meditation guy because I'm so anxious.
I think that fear had me clinging to two jobs at once, and it took me a long time to gin up the courage to leave.
And you can think of anxiety as a kind of addiction.
And I've actually heard it argued that way, that there's a great neuroscientist named Dr. Judson Brewer who argues that anxiety
is a habit that we create in order to keep ourselves safe.
We think that this worrying and fretting and plotting and planning is protecting us, and a certain amount of it is, but at some point you can cross the line into pathology.
A thousand percent, everybody's got something.
And I think a lot of our pain and suffering on a daily basis comes from fronting, from pretending we're something that we're not.
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