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Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics A 10% Happier How-to Book

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The host repeatedly highlighted that he co‑authored the New York Times bestseller with Jeff Warren, presenting it as a practical how‑to guide for people who struggle to sit still or stay focused, especially those with ADHD. He described the book’s purpose as a follow‑up to his earlier work, aiming to identify and overcome common obstacles to a meditation habit through a cross‑country road‑trip narrative. Listeners were encouraged to preorder the title, and the overall tone was enthusiastic and supportive, indicating a strong recommendation.

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The book was co-authored by Jeff Warren and Dan Harris. It was a New York Times bestseller.

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He's the co-author with me of the New York Times bestseller, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, and he's the founder of the Consciousness Explorers Club, a meditation adventure group in Toronto.

Episode: How To Meditate If You Have ADHD (Or Are Simply Fi...

Jeff Warren and Dan Harris wrote this book together, and it's designed to help people who struggle with concentration during meditation, particularly those with ADHD.

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He and I wrote a book together called meditation for fidgety skeptics.

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The book was co-written by Dan Harris and Jeff Warren.

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Jeff Warren is also a writer and a meditation teacher. He and I co-wrote the book Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics.

Episode: A Deep Breathing Exercise for Stress | Bonus Medit...

Jeff Warren is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller "Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics", a book about meditation.

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He's trained in multiple traditions, including with renowned teacher Shinzen Young. Jeff is the co-author of NY Times Bestseller "Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics", and the founder of the Consciousness Explorers Club, a meditation adventure group in Toronto.

with me of a best-selling book called "Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics" and he's the founder of the Consciousness Explorers Club based in Toronto and he's a great friend.

Episode: Paula Faris, Journey of Faith

Paula Faris was featured prominently in this book as a significant character. The book's alternate title, which Paula disliked, was mentioned during the conversation.

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If you read my most recent book Meditation for Figuity Skeptics, she was featured in there as a, as quite a prominent character.

By the way, you didn't use my alternate title for the book and I'm still upset about that.

Episode: Crisis Advice from "Meditation MacGyver" | Jeff Wa...

The host and Jeff Warren chronicled their friendship in this co-authored book, detailing a cross-country bus trip they took to help people overcome obstacles to establishing a meditation practice.

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We actually chronicled our friendship in a book we co-authored called Meditation for Figuity Skeptics

in which we took a Gonzo cross country bus trip to help people overcome various obstacles to establishing a meditation practice.

Episode: Thupten Jinpa, The Importance of Compassion - LIVE...

The host stated the goal of this second book was to motivate people to actually practice meditation by tapping into the brain's reward system.

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then I just wrote a book called meditation for fidgety skeptics and the goal of the second book was to get people to actually do the thing

Episode: Tara Brach: Making it RAIN

Dan Harris mentioned this book in relation to an idea from his co-author about adopting a welcoming attitude toward one's inner critic, suggesting the mantra 'Welcome to the party.'

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third idea is something I talked about in a book I wrote called meditation for fidgety skeptics and it's an idea I took from my co-author Jeffrey Warren who talks about having a welcoming attitude toward your inner toward your neuroses toward the various inner characters who show up at the party sometimes in a rather obnoxious faction

Episode: Brad Katsuyama, Wall Street Reformer

This book was written to help readers establish the difficult habit of meditation by addressing obstacles and avoiding guilt spirals, featuring input from Jeff Warren.

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I have a new book coming out soon and I this story is in the book in a in a big way actually by the time this post the book may already be out it's called meditation for fidgety skeptics available at find bookstore everywhere plug now done

So I wrote this the the most recent book that's uh um called meditation for fidgety skeptics and and it's a the point was to help figure out what are the obstacles standing in the way of of doing this habit of establishing this habit that's manifestly really good for you

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Dan Harris mentioned this new book he wrote, around which he was doing a series of podcast appearances in LA.

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She came along with me because I was appearing on eight different podcasts as part of my orgy of self promotion around this new book I wrote called meditation for fidgety skeptics.

Episode: Your Meditation Questions, Answered!

This new book was written along with two co-authors to address the difficulty of starting a meditation habit, which the author realized people struggled with after his first book. The goal of this book was to recount the story of a cross-country road trip taken to meet people who wanted to meditate but weren't, help readers overcome obstacles to starting the habit, and teach them how to meditate. It was scheduled for release on December 26th.

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The book is called Meditation for Figuity Skeptics and it's all about my attempt to do what I kind of failed to do in my first book.

And so I've written this new book called Meditation for Figuity Skeptics with some co-authors including Jeff Warren, who's an amazing meditation teacher, was featured on the podcast two weeks ago.

And so the goal of the book is to tell you the story of this Gonzo road trip that we went on.

Anyway, so that book is out on December 26th in time for a new year, new you and back to my producers.

Episode: Dr. Bianca Harris

This new book was described as a follow-up to his first, focused on creating a thorough taxonomy of obstacles to meditation and offering systematic tips to overcome them. The book also featured a significant storyline involving the speaker's wife, Bianca, detailing her resistance to meditation and eventual change.

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So you're going to hear me take a little bit of a beating from my wife, but you're also going to hear an incredibly smart and interesting person who has had a lot of stuff go on in her life and who lives with somebody's really into meditation and yet for years couldn't bring herself to do it.

So I decided to write a follow-up book in which I really do a thorough taxonomy, a thorough classification system of all the big obstacles to meditation.

The book is basically about the fact that I made this really in hindsight kind of dumb, cavalier assumption after I wrote my first book, 10% happier.

Episode: Dr. David Vago, This Is Your Brain on Meditation

The host mentioned this was his new book, which was based on a cross-country road trip he took with Jeff Warren to help people overcome obstacles to meditating. The book systematically classified and listed obstacles to meditation and then tackled them one by one.

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As you've heard me mentioned before, I've got a new book coming out. It's called Meditation for Figuity Skeptics.

The point of this next book is to systematically taxonomize, classify, list all of the obstacles to meditation such as I don't have time for this or it's going to make me lose my edge or I can't do it because my mind is too busy to make a clear list of these obstacles and then to tackle them one by one.

Episode: Andrew Scheffer, The Wharton Monk

Dan Harris mentioned that he wrote a new book called "Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics" and encouraged listeners to preorder it immediately.

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Just a gentle reminder that I wrote a book, a new book, it's called Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics and you can preorder it right now.

Episode: Dr. Jennifer Ashton, Life After Suicide

The caller found this book helpful in understanding that beginning again is the practice in meditation, even when constantly losing focus on the breath due to racing thoughts after a friend's suicide.

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after i read or after i listened to your book meditation for fidgety skeptics i during a one hour sit i well i'm lucky to get three breaths in a row where i'm focused on my breath

but your book meditation for fidgety skeptics really helped me understand that this is meditation and beginning again is the practice and i'm not doing it wrong as long as i begin again

Episode: Paula Faris, Journey of Faith

The guest, Paula Faris, was featured as a prominent character in Dan Harris's most recent book, where she discussed her journey related to meditation.

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If you read my most recent book Meditation for Figuity Skeptics, she was featured in there as a, as quite a prominent character.

You were a big part of the last book I wrote meditation for fidgety skeptics and you were complaining to the meditation teacher with whom I wrote the book.

Episode: Thupten Jinpa, The Importance of Compassion - LIVE...

Dan Harris mentioned writing this second book with the goal of motivating people, particularly skeptics, to actually practice meditation by tapping into the brain's reward system.

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I just wrote a book called meditation for fidgety skeptics and the goal of the second book was to get people to actually do the thing.

Episode: Brad Katsuyama, Wall Street Reformer

This was a new book the speaker wrote with Jeff Warren to address obstacles to establishing a meditation habit, particularly for ambitious people, focusing on experimentation and avoiding guilt spirals.

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I have a new book coming out soon and I this story is in the book in a in a big way actually by the time this post the book may already be out it's called meditation for fidgety skeptics available at find bookstore everywhere plug now done

So I wrote this the the most recent book that's uh um called meditation for fidgety skeptics and and it's a the point was to help figure out what are the obstacles standing in the way of of doing this habit of establishing this habit that's manifestly really good for you and I you know you should you definitely should not bite off more than you can chew which is set up a guilt spiral that would kill the whole thing

Episode: Your Meditation Questions, Answered!

This new book was written along with two co-authors and was intended to address the failure of the first book to inspire people to start meditating, as starting a habit is very hard. The goal of this book was to tell the story of a cross-country road trip taken with co-authors, help readers overcome obstacles to starting a meditation habit, and teach them how to meditate, with release scheduled for December 26th.

"

The book is called Meditation for Figuity Skeptics and it's all about my attempt to do what I kind of failed to do in my first book.

And so I've written this new book called Meditation for Figuity Skeptics with some co-authors including Jeff Warren, who's an amazing meditation teacher, was featured on the podcast two weeks ago.

And so the goal of the book is to tell you the story of this Gonzo road trip that we went on.

Anyway, so that book is out on December 26th in time for a new year, new you and back to my producers.

Episode: Dr. Bianca Harris

The speaker wrote this follow-up book to provide a thorough classification system of obstacles to meditation and offer tips to overcome them. It featured the story of the speaker's wife, who resisted meditation for years but made a recent change.

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So you're going to hear me take a little bit of a beating from my wife, but you're also going to hear an incredibly smart and interesting person who has had a lot of stuff go on in her life and who lives with somebody's really into meditation and yet for years couldn't bring herself to do it. But has made a bit of a change recently and this is something I write about a lot in this new book that's coming out soon called Meditation for Figuity Skeptics.

I decided to write a follow-up book in which I really do a thorough taxonomy, a thorough classification system of all the big obstacles to meditation.

Bianca is a big part of the storyline because she is somebody we meet on day one of the road trip when we're in New York City before we take off and head across the country and she tells us all about why she doesn't meditate.

I wanted to write a book that would actually convince people to meditate and that thought was let's take a road trip we'll go across the country and we'll meet a bunch of wannabe meditators and figure out what's stopping them and and then we'll systematically come up with tips to help people get over the hump.

one of the chapters in the book as you know is about consistencies here are keeping the practice going and one of the things I said it's really useful that I learned in the process of talking to people who have fallen on and off the wagon is that when you actually falling off the wagon piece super useful because you see oh yeah this is what my meditation practice is doing for me it's stopping me from spiraling off into like useless anger and uh so now I'm more incentivized to get back on on the wagon so your story actually really illustrates that well.

Episode: Dr. David Vago, This Is Your Brain on Meditation

The speaker mentioned this forthcoming book was based on a cross-country road trip he took with Jeff Warren to meet people who wanted to meditate but weren't, aiming to systematically address their obstacles to the practice. The book sought to classify and tackle common barriers to meditation, such as not having enough time or worrying about losing one's competitive edge.

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As you've heard me mentioned before, I've got a new book coming out. It's called Meditation for Figuity Skeptics.

The point of this next book is to systematically taxonomize, classify, list all of the obstacles to meditation such as I don't have time for this or it's going to make me lose my edge or I can't do it because my mind is too busy to make a clear list of these obstacles and then to tackle them one by one.

Jeff Warren who is my co-author on the new meditation for Fidgety Skeptics book you knew him from before we rolled through Nashville and went to your lab which we will talk about later you knew Jeff because he spent some time at following some of your research when you were at Harvard

Episode: Andrew Scheffer, The Wharton Monk

The host mentioned that this was his new book which listeners could pre-order at the time of the recording.

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Just a gentle reminder that I wrote a book, a new book, it's called Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics and you can preorder it right now.

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