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1 week ago | 
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Happy Friday, my fellow suffering beings. Each week, I share two things I’m digging right now (books, TV shows, movies, music, and the like) plus one online video of nearly zero cultural merit. The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt. In the 1990s, I read and loved Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. In the 2010s, I read the even better (IMO) The Goldfinch. But I somehow missed her 2000s novel, The Little Friend.
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1 week ago | 
danharris.com | Dan Harris
As always—it was great to go live with so many of you yesterday. For anyone who missed it—here’s the full recording.
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1 week ago | 
danharris.com | Dan Harris
The podcaster and author Lewis Howes worries this advice might be “basic” or “corny,” but I disagree. Given that life is not an escalator that glides smoothly and inexorably upwards, you need something to keep you going when shit gets hard. Friends can help. So can meditation. But you know what else is massively useful during a setback? A clearly defined mission. A purpose. A north star. Here’s an illustrative anecdote from Lewis: A few years ago, the podcast business hit the skids.
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1 week ago | 
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Lewis Howes is the host of theSchool of Greatness podcast. He has written several bestselling books. His newest is called Make Money Easy: Your Path to Peace, Freedom, and Financial Abundance. Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Dan Harris to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Ad-free right here for paid subscribers. World-class insights and practices from experts in modern science and ancient wisdom.
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1 week ago | 
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Today’s missive is about a brilliant move, made in a moment of extreme duress, that I don’t think I, or many of the men I know, would ever have had the emotional agility to make. In fact, if you’ll excuse the quick digression, as I was sitting down to write this note, I was thinking about a joke from Bill Burr, that brilliant and hilarious observer of male emotional imbecility.
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1 week ago | 
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Suleika Jaouad is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling memoir, Between Two Kingdoms, which has been translated into over twenty languages, and her highly anticipated new book, The Book of Alchemy, forthcoming in April 2025. She writes the popular weekly newsletter, the Isolation Journals. Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Dan Harris to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Ad-free right here for paid subscribers.
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1 week ago | 
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To state the blazingly obvious, we live in anxious, angry, unstable times. Which poses an urgent question:In the face of the chaos, how do you want to be? There are lots of options: you can engage in all-caps activism on social media; you can self-medicate with booze, shopping, or food; you can put your head in the sand; etcetera. The menu of dysfunction is vast. The Buddha, however, offered a smarter alternative. He designed a meditation practice specifically as an antidote to anxiety.
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2 weeks ago | 
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Happy Friday, my fellow suffering beings. Each week, I share two things I’m digging right now (books, TV shows, movies, music, and the like) plus one online video of nearly zero cultural merit. The Narrow Road to the Deep North, on Amazon Prime:A beautifully shot, elegantly paced WWII epic starring Jacob Elordi. I’m only partway through, but it seems to be about time, romantic love, cruelty, and more. Beddy Rays. I talked a few weeks ago about Australian Pub Rock, one of my new favorite genres.
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2 weeks ago | 
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Dan’s best attempts to answer some listener questions from our Substack community. These questions came from our live Renegade Sangha session on April 8, and all of these sessions are open to paid subscribers. Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Dan Harris to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Ad-free right here for paid subscribers. World-class insights and practices from experts in modern science and ancient wisdom.
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2 weeks ago | 
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A few years ago, the eminent Tibetan monk and meditation teacher Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche saw a sign on the side of a truck that promised to “ship everywhere, anytime, anything.”He decided to tweak that to: “Meditate everywhere, anytime, with anything.”Here’s how you do it:Notice what you’re feeling. Next time you feel a powerful emotion—be it anger, anxiety, boredom, or whatever—try to catch it. As soon as you see it, you’re no longer in it.