10% Happier with Dan Harris

It's called the Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman and it just breaks it down that we each communicate love in our primary love language.

I really could see in myself and this the great African-American scholar W.A.B. Du Bois calls it double consciousness

so when you're in a black body you can have this double consciousness of seeing the messages from society and having them discordant with your reality and desire for

I call it How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci and he says can you really do that and I said sure so I had six months to make this baby up and this is a really notoriously tough crowd.

anyway that led to book that actually came out 20 years ago called how to think likely in order to Vinci seven steps to genius every day big promise

all i can tell you is my favorite i've heard from i still hear from people all over the world it's 25 languages and it's really struck a chord with people

the book I brought you's called Body Learning and Introduction to the Alexander technique and it was my master's thesis but you can't just read the book and nail it right you need no you need

and my most recent book is called The Art of Connection seven relationship building skills every leader needs now

it's the most important things i've learned about how do you build relationships with yourself with others that will help you actually navigate through the objections to change the resistance people have to innovation and creativity

When Things Fall Apart, Welcoming the Unwelcome and the wisdom of no escape.

We talked to her about a bunch of things including how to actually as she recommends in one of the aforementioned book titles, how to actually welcome the unwelcome.

I was reading this book by Paul Ekman and the Dalai Lama Emotional Awareness, I think it's called or something like that in which the point is made again and again and again by the Dalai Lama and then by Paul Ekman that you condemn the acts but not the person...

I remember Tick-Nat-Han wrote a beautiful book called The Sun My Heart and in it he talked about our practice in the best of circumstances allows us to realize the truth of interconnectedness the truth of interdependence and the truth of interpenetration that we're how can we say we're separate from the very atmosphere that we breathe and yet we're throwing junk into it you know moment after moment

He and I wrote a book called Meditation for Figuity Skeptics that came out 10 months ago and he's a really good friend and somebody I admire.

And one of the main reasons why I really wanted to write that book with him is because he's incredibly funny.

check out his books as i've mentioned going to pieces without falling apart played a huge role in my life but he's written other books such as advice not given opening to desire and the trauma of everyday life

He's also an author written a series of books about sort of the overlap between meditation and the neuroscientific research. And he's got a new book called Neurodharma.

don't forget Rick's got a new book called Neurodharma

I wrote a book called Radical Dharma talking race love and liberation and if you can imagine those three things being in a title then you could imagine the complexity of what we're talking about.

Reverend Angel is the author of such books as Radical Dharma and Being Black.

We're going to talk to Susan Piver who's got a book called The Four Noble Truths of Love Buddhist Wisdom for Modern Relationships.

The new book is called The Four Noble Truths of Love and it's completely made up by myself so I just want to say not the Buddha didn't say these things.

My new book is called The Four Noble Truths of Love it is out now basically.

I did and I took a book with me called The Heart of the Buddha by someone called Chogyam Tronpur Rinpoche who I'd never heard of.

Anyways reading this book the heart of the Buddha and I came across a passage that said something like the only possible spiritual path is your own experience.

This is a book that I wrote some years ago couple years ago more than couple seven or something and it was a horrible horrible horrible horrible experience they're giving me a lot of money because the book I wrote my first book by flux became a New York Times bestselling book what's it called The Hard Questions 100 essential questions to ask before you say I do.

same with heartbreak I wrote a whole book about that called The Wisdom of Broken Heart about how you know that there are certain states we find ourselves in that we cannot game no matter how good your game is you cannot game it by explaining it away or extracting yourself.

I don't know if you've ever read that Greg McEwen book or I don't know if I'm pronouncing his name correctly it's called Essentialism yeah it's about picking the things that are essential and ruthlessly saying no to everything else do you...

for me I read this book Story of a Soul and instantly St. Tress of Luzia became my spiritual master even though I'm not even Catholic...

and the thing about the stress that I love is that she she's that she's the saint of little things and so she's like ordinary life done with heroic virtue...