Dan Harris

There are some of my brothers and sisters in the wellness space who are super prescriptive, and that's just not my style.

So if there's a person listening or watching who has not had the opportunity to check your show out, I know this can be an annoying question, but tell me an episode that you would point someone to.

Where do you send them?

Probably the most influential person for me in this whole space of whatever you want to call it, wellness, human flourishing, whatever, is a guy who's not famous.

His name is Joseph Goldstein.

Oh, this is your teacher.

Yeah, he's my meditation teacher, has been for a long time, and he's a very close friend.

And he's 82 years old, does not wear robes or anything like that.

He's a Jewish guy from the Catskills who –

wears khakis and button downs.

He doesn't present as a guru, but he is

a walking example of what can happen with sustained practice.

He is funny and smart and other-oriented and helpful and teaches using these very pithy phrases, just little like one-liners that are kind of like Buddhist earworms.

They just, you know, wriggle their way into your mindstream and then

surface when you need them the most.

So I'll give you an example.

The next time you're in a spiral of anxiety, maybe if you can catch yourself in one of these overthinking periods, ask yourself this question.

And again, this comes from Joseph.

is this useful?

Like, some amount of worrying makes sense, but we often and very quickly cross the line between constructive anguish and useless rumination.