Rating: *****
Tags: Self-Help, Personal Growth, Happiness, Body; Mind & Spirit, Mindfulness & Meditation, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Lang:en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Added: October 13, 2018
Modified: November 5, 2021
Summary
#1
New York
Times
Bestseller
"An enormously smart, clear-eyed, brave-hearted, and
quite personal look at the benefits of meditation."
—Elizabeth Gilbert *
Nightline
*anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected,
hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange
worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to
get happier that is truly achievable.
After having a nationally televised panic attack, Dan
Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong
nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure
involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help guru,
and a gaggle of brain scientists. Eventually, Harris realized
that the source of his problems was the very thing he always
thought was his greatest asset: the incessant, insatiable
voice in his head, which had propelled him through the ranks
of a hypercompetitive business, but had also led him to make
the profoundly stupid decisions that provoked his on-air
freak-out. Finally, Harris stumbled upon an effective way to
rein in that voice, something he always assumed to be either
impossible or useless: meditation, a tool that research
suggests can do everything from lower your blood pressure to
essentially rewire your brain. 10% Happier
takes readers on a ride from the outer reaches of
neuroscience to the inner sanctum of network news to the
bizarre fringes of America’s spiritual scene, and
leaves them with a takeaway that could actually change their
lives. This paperback edition is revised with new
material.
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