Dan Harris

I don't love my own writing, honestly.

I think my writing is fine, and I do write books, but my favorite thing I ever wrote was the first line to my first book, which was, the voice in my head is an asshole.

I think that is true.

I think it's true for many people.

We have this nattering inner voice that is chasing us out of bed in the morning and we're just constantly wanting stuff, not wanting stuff, judging people, comparing ourselves to other people.

And when you're unaware of this inner conversation, it owns you.

And this is like the...

This is my MO.

I think it's very useful to talk openly, especially I've been blessed with this public platform.

It's very useful, I think, to talk openly about all of my craziness.

One of the most common words that Joseph Goldstein uses is ridiculous.

And he uses it to describe the mind.

It's ridiculous.

We're always in the past or the future instead of right now.

We're always comparing ourselves to other people.

We're always judging other people, putting ourselves down.

It's ridiculous.

One of the little things he gets people to do is, if you're in one of these periods of time where you're just totally down on yourself, count the judgmental thoughts.

Count the self-judgmental thoughts.

But by the time you hit 87...