10% Happier with Dan Harris

And you first met her if you read Ten Percent Happier in that book her name is Janice Martirano

I had heard about her work she was a is a pioneer in bringing meditation into corporate America.

I flew out there and she had very successfully injected meditation into the executive level of this company so much so that they actually have meditation rooms in every building in their corporate campus in Minnetonka

I've done a lot of work with school leaders and as a lobbyist, as a lawyer. And so the mindful school leader really came out of seeing that there was a lot of mindfulness, practices for teachers, for students, but almost nothing for the school administrator, for the principal, for the assistant principal.

I would also say that the other really critical element because you've written a book on happiness is to, is happiness. In the plum village tradition we're not so much concerned about insight because insight naturally arises from mindfulness and concentration.

His newest successful book is called When the scientific secrets of perfect timing so let me just say before we get into this that this Daniel represents a bit of a pivot that we're actually trying to do on this podcast

The idea here is that we think that timing is an art but it's really a science and all of us in our lives make all kinds of decisions about When to do things When should I work out When should I do this kind of work When should I do that kind of work When should I start a project When should I abandon a project

The main point in a lot of this research about timing over the course of a day is that our cognitive abilities don't remain the same throughout the day our cognitive abilities change over the course of a day

The best time of day to do something depends on what that something is

Next book to sell as human and that's about the thesis of that book is that we're spending huge amounts of time on the job and around our life persuading influencing convincing cajoling

The new ABCs are a tunement can you get out of your own head into someone else's head ... B buoyancy stay afloat in that ocean of rejection C clarity go from accessing information to curating it from solving existing problems to identifying hidden problems

The first book I wrote was a book called Free Agent Nation which is about people leaving large organizations to go to work for themselves.

I discovered that yeah it was partly an economic story and partly a technology story but it was mostly a psychology story it was mostly people saying I wanted to live a different kind of life.

In this show we're going to talk about her new book which is called The Interwork of Racial Justice, Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness.

And so I just began exploring with that. And that was way back in 2003, two or three. And then I found the network of other people who both in academia generally were interested in bringing this inner and outer work together for service and work in the world for a more refined 21st century way of thinking about what it means to be an educated human being on the one hand, but also in law, in particular...

The book is called The Inner Work of Racial Justice healing ourselves and transforming our communities through mindfulness and it is an invitation to take any piece of that title and critically sit with it and reflect on it and challenge me and others about it but to come into the conversation...

The next book was a book called A Whole New Mind

That was about the rise of right brain right brain, the subtitle is why right brainers will rule the future.

my argument such as it was is that that division of labor in the brain offers a powerful metaphor for understanding what's going on in the economy and the idea was in this book is 2000 and five six is that certain kinds of abilities characteristic of the left brain logical linear SAT spreadsheet kinds of abilities. Those were becoming easy to outsource an automate and therefore what's harder to outsource an automate are these abilities more characteristic of the right hemisphere artistry empathy, inventiveness, big picture thinking that those kinds of abilities were becoming more important.

The next book was called The Adventures of Johnny Bunko which was a career guide in manga Japanese comics so it was 160 page graphic novel career guide.

there's a set of texts by sumi kim who is one of the contributors of the talk section on the app which is called Sitting Together a family centered curriculum on meditation and Buddhist teachings

barbed wireson for example i'm reading her book right now she wrote a book called Love 2.0 she's amazing so she's become a good friend and collaborator

so Ken Sheldon who's at Missouri who um actually wrote a book called Optimal Human Being and he's wonderful too so he became a collaborator

The writer Stephen Bachelor once told me he's written many great books, including Buddhism without Beliefs.

She's got to do a book. It's called Radical Compassion.

We're also going to talk about a lot more including her new book about how to use this rain technique in your own life.

And then most recently Radical Compassion just a few weeks ago which is really learning to love ourselves and each other into healing and it's really for the rippling out for our world

for instance this morning I was talking to my husband about a book that right now I'm rereading for the 20th time and it's I Am That by Serena Sargadatta and it's a book about non dual reality, about seeing how really constantly looking at how am I getting identified right in this moment like really seeing past the coagulation of self and recognizing okay I'm not this particular personality, I'm not this body and recognizing a larger sense of beingness.

He has the focus of a huge book called Flash Boys by Michael Lewis who's written all these amazing books about the business world Michael Lewis has and one of his most recent books was called Flash Boys and Brad is the protagonist.

It's not really enough for Michael Lewis to write a whole mega best selling book about it so trust me.

The events in Flash Boys which we should assume nobody knows about were you meditating during that during all of that

I read the book and then it was only i then i started watching videos online i'm like damn looks a lot like Matt so i reached out to Matt and i'm like is this your brother because it's so i want to what's funny is the book the the book i give

And they've written a book called Mindful Games and it really goes right to this issue of how to teach meditation to children and they have a lot to say that will be useful for many, many parents and myself included.

The book and the cards, well, they're just games. You know, it's a way of trying to make these practices fun in ways that you don't need to even say the word mindfulness...

you can learn things as you can in your wonderful book meditation for the fidgety skeptic i bought it it's great i did i wouldn't give anyone but i bought it so i bought it to pay me no

When my, with the first book I wrote The Mindful Child came out, my son was in middle school or high school at the time and one of the teachers asked him, hey did you practice mindfulness as a kid? No, absolutely not. She said well did you stop at the door and take a couple deep breaths before leaving? He said yeah and did you do this and did you do that? And he came home and he said mom I had no idea that that stuff was mindfulness.

John and Mila hadn't even written their book every day blessings. That's John Kabatzen and his wife Mila who wrote a book every day blessings. Yes, about meditation for kids.