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10% Happier with Dan Harris
Dan Harris originally intended to write a book about meditation without including personal details, but his early readers encouraged him to tell his own story, leading him to rebuild the book around his personal experiences with anxiety and depression.
And then at some point I had this idea of like maybe I'll tell the story about the panic attack and so I included it in some early drafts and a lot of my first readers came back and said give us more...
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Dan Harris originally intended to write a book about meditation without including personal details, but his early readers encouraged him to tell his own story, leading him to rebuild the book around his personal experiences with anxiety and depression.
And then at some point I had this idea of like maybe I'll tell the story about the panic attack and so I included it in some early drafts and a lot of my first readers came back and said give us more of this because the earth rapsodizing about the theory of meditation is not so interesting but you being an idiot is extremely interesting so I ended up rebuilding the whole book around what was happening in my inner life with the goal not just to be able to do it.