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Dan Harris

Nascido: July 26, 1971 – Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Dan Harris is an American journalist and nonfiction author focused on meditation, mindfulness, stress, and mental health. Best known for the #1 New York Times bestseller 10% Happier and Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, he expanded his reach through the popular 10% Happier podcast and meditation app.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Dan Harris built his public life first as a television journalist and only later as a writer and meditation advocate. Raised in Newton, Massachusetts, he graduated from Colby College and started in local television in Maine, working at WLBZ and WCSH before moving to New England Cable News and then ABC News in 2000. At ABC he reported from major domestic and international stories, including Ground Zero, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, and Iraq. Over time he became a familiar on-air presence across the network, including roles at Nightline and the weekend editions of Good Morning America. ((https://abcnews.go.com/WN/dan-harris/story?id=126893))

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The point of meditation is not to feel any kind of way; it’s to clearly feel whatever you’re feeling, so that your thoughts/urges/emotions don’t own you as much
-It’s ok for meditation to suck
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Meditation is like a crazy video game where you can’t move forward if you want to move forward
-The dangers of striving in meditation
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Getting out of your head and into your body
-The express route to mindfulness
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The body, however, is always in the present moment
-The express route to mindfulness
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Tuning into what’s happening south of the neckline is a great way to short circuit your spinning stories, ancient resentments, and noxious mental habits
-The express route to mindfulness
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But the science shows that if you want to improve your thinking, you need to get out of your head
-How to think more clearly
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I often think of shame as a form of psychic constipation
-Is there a healthy version of shame?
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In effect, you are reclaiming your attention
-How to be less addicted to your phone
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Just remember, it’s crucial to have a sense of humor about your inevitable “failures.”
-How to be less addicted to your phone

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"With startling, provocative, and often very funny candor, Dan Harris tells the story of why he urgently needed to tame the voice in his head"

Gretchen Rubin ((

"In a self-help guide even skeptics will embrace, ABC News’ Dan Harris crushes stereotypes about meditation and quiets his anxious mind"

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"10% Happier is useful, helpful, and hilarious—and Dan Harris was the biggest skeptic of all"

Hugh Jackman ((

"In 10% Happier, Dan Harris describes in fascinating detail the stresses of working as a news correspondent and the relief he found in meditation"

Sam Harris ((

"Nightline co-anchor Dan Harris is an unlikely ambassador for mindfulness"

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"Network anchor Dan Harris keeps his Buddhism real"

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"With humor, generosity, and devastating candor, Dan Harris makes meditation make sense"

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"Dan Harris is generous and wise and the only Buddhist I know who can drop the F-word into a mantra and somehow make it work"

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