In which Dan gets candid about a major life struggle, the practical takeaways, and a big new project.
In this episode:
- Dan shares news about what’s next for him
- His strategies and lessons from a big career change including how to deal with conflict, anger and insomnia
- What he's learned about the power of self-compassion, the value of failure and how to gain perspective when you need it most
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This is the 10% Happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
How we doing? I have very personal episode for you today. No guest is just going to be me talking. I have three things I want to talk about. The first thing is that I want to tell you about a career earthquake. I have recently gone through that has been very hard for me. It's been going on for a while, but I haven't been
able to talk about it until now. The second thing is that I want to tell you about something very cool that is emerging out of said earthquake. And then the third thing, and this will be the meat of the episode, is that I want to talk about some of the lessons I've learned in the course of this very difficult period of time, because I think some of these lessons are potentially directly
To your lives. This has somehow become my MO. I go through something hard or incredibly embarrassing like having a coke fueled panic attack.
On national television and then I attempt to turn it into content that is useful for you. So that's what I'm gonna attempt today. Does that make sense?
In terms of an order of operations, I'm going to start with the hard news, then I'm going to do the good news, and then I'll do news you can use. Alright, first step is the hard news.
Let me give you a little bit of context here. In Buddhism, one of the central concepts is impermanence. Everything's changing all the time. Or as the Buddha says, Everything is always becoming otherwise. I love that phrase, becoming otherwise. So in that spirit,
I'm going to make this announcement. I am very sad to report that I am no longer part of the meditation app that I co-founded many years ago. I am incredibly proud of all of the work that we've done on the app and all the impact we've had on our team members, on the teachers who have been working on the app, and most importantly on all the folks who have used the app. I'm really proud of all the work we've done. That said, in recent years, my co-founders and I developed some pretty significant creative and financial and interpersonal differences. Everybody tried their best.
Everybody tried their best, but we could not come to an agreement about the future of the company. Hence this separation. We had a lengthy negotiation. It lasted nearly three years, and here is where we landed. I am going to keep this podcast, the 10% happier podcast, and it will not change. You will be able to hear it wherever you're listening to it right now.
The brand name 10% happier and my now former co-founders are going to keep the app itself and they are
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