10% Happier with Dan Harris

It's called Keep Sharp and it's really something that I think is of universal interest which is how do we maintain brain health for as long as possible and you have this very handy sort of five pillars, five ways that we can think about keeping our brains healthy.

The first is to move your body.

We talk about his origin story, how he got interested in the brain in the first place, the mysteries of consciousness, how you can grow new brain cells. We talk about key skills for challenging your brain.

She's garnered a huge audience on TikTok with more than 1 million followers. She has also written the book, How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing.

On today's show, she offers a ton of practical tips that are rooted in self compassion and the dogged determination not to use shame as a motivator when it comes to our domestic lives.

My book When the Body Says No, the relationship we've been stressed in illness, emotional stress and physical illness.

He portrays delight and joy as necessary for our very survival and also as acts of resistance.

He has written a book called The Book of Delights in which he cataloged one item or experience every day that gave him delight.

I was just taking a walk and having a delightful day. And I was like, oh I should write a little essay about this moment of delight. And then very quickly it was sort of given to me by the wind or something to do it every day for a year right a short essay about something that delights you.

Now he's back with a new book called The Book of More Delights.

I use that word because I feel like our witnessing one another, our witnessing our connections to one another is really a kind of I said reputation but I think it's more actually emphatic than that to a mode of life that would suggest that we're separate.

But you talk about joy as a practice of survival. What do you mean by that?

There's a lot of oaks to the garden to these community orchard projects to all kinds of stuff. But it's a rich and sort of deep complicated sorrowful and sort of whatever you call it. Ram Bunk's just kind of book.

She's a Peabody award winner, a national humanities medalist and a bestselling author of several books including Becoming Wise, Einstein's God and Speaking of Faith.

one of the principles of Emergent Strategy which was kind of the first book I put out by myself was what you pay attention to grows

inside the book Pleasure Activism I list all these practices for starting to get back in touch with being able to feel yourself and notice what you're feeling

he's the author of a new book or a new wish book called Why Were Polarized?

Hopefully what I'm offering in the book will to people of all political persuasions. And thankfully, it's largely been how people reacted to it. Be seen as an accurate description of what is happening in the system and why people's incentives look the way they do.

I try to preempt a little bit of the mockery here in the book but I don't even mean mindfulness in the sense that a lot of people mean it as meditation.

The sophistication with which we are manipulated in politics far exceeds the sophistication with which we understand our own cognitive and emotional reactions to political stimuli.

I don't think this is a systemic solution for our problems. I think it is a healthy thing to do as individuals and that is not worthless.

Thorough was very famous for saying in Walden I went to the woods because I wish to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach and not when I came to die discover that I hadn't lived

and if you read Walden I mean it's like a rhapsody of mindfulness he would stand you know in the pond up in Walden pond up to his nose and just watch the life of the skimmers and you know the plants and the birds and stuff

The result is a new book called What My Bones Know, A Memoir Of Healing From Complex Trauma.

The list of symptoms is not so much a medical document as it is a biography of my life, the difficulty regulating my emotions, the tendency to overshare and trust the wrong people, the dismal self-loathing, the trouble I have maintaining relationships, the unhealthy relationship with my abuser, the tendency to be aggressive but unable to tolerate aggression from others. It's all true, it's all me.

The name of my book is What My Bones Know a memoir of healing from complex trauma it should be available everywhere and the audiobook actually features real tape from my sessions with Dr. Homme

This is a huge distinction that we have. This is important as being versus doing is the why versus the what and our mutual friend Simon Sinek talks about this. Simon Sinek has this really famous book called Start with Why in which he observes that people with you know lead organizations for example but more importantly people who are trying to be in charge of their own life they really don't have an answer to the why do you do what you do but they have abundant evidence on the what part

did you ever read Infinite Gest?

So David Foster Wallace for the uninitiated and a great writer no longer with us, sadly, is truly really into him being and he wrote a thousand-page book with crazy amount of footnotes that you have to like, keep going back to the footnote section

Her most recent book is Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.

The net result of this deep dive into what she calls a rabbit hole which is described in Naomi Klein's new book, which is called Doppelganger, seems to be really profound and also, and this is a bit surprising, coming.

This new book is a departure because it's more personal. It's stranger I say you know it's a weirder book for weirder times. It tackles the doubling of the self.

Okay my new book is called Doppelganger a trip into the mirror world and it's published by for our stress-jiru and I also read my own audiobook for the first time

If you missed it go check out Mondays episode with Morgan Housel author of the blockbuster book The Psychology of Money.