Dan Harris è co-conduttore di Nightline e delle edizioni del fine settimana di Good Morning America. Riporta regolarmente per 20/20, World News con Diane Sawyer e le edizioni infrasettimanali di Good Morning America. Prima di entrare a far parte di ABC News quattordici anni fa, ha lavorato per emittenti locali a Boston e nel Maine. Vive con sua moglie, Bianca, a New York City. 10% Happier è il suo primo libro.
Focusing on a socio-cultural perspective, the book critiques contemporary creativity studies through posthumanist and new materialist lenses. It advocates for a broader understanding of creativity that transcends the limited views of entrepreneurship and innovation. By presenting various case studies, it emphasizes the importance of personal, planetary, and geopolitical collaboration, positioning these elements as essential to fostering a more sustainable and expansive creativity. This approach serves as a counter to the prevailing notion of innovation as an end in itself.
We all have a voice in our heads. It makes us lose our calm unnecessarily, compulsively check email, eat when we are not hungry, and fixate on the past and future at the expense of the present. Most of us may think there is nothing to be done, but Dan Harris literally stumbled upon the solution to reduce stress and be happier, and he decided to make it available to everyone. It is something he always considered unacceptable or useless: meditation. An increasing number of scientists believe that meditation can lower blood pressure, strengthen the immune system, and conquer fears. This book takes readers on a journey from the extreme boundaries of neuroscience to the sanctum of new scientific discoveries, with a simple tool that can change lives.
ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play Ultimate Frisbee, and use the word "namaste" without irony. After he had a panic attack on live television, he went on a strange and circuitous journey that ultimately led him to become one of meditation's most vocal public proponents. Here's what he's fixated on now: Science suggests that meditation can lower blood pressure, mitigate depression and anxiety, and literally rewire key parts of the brain. Millions of people want to meditate but aren't actually practicing. What's holding them back? Harris and his friend Jeff Warren, a "Meditation MacGyver," embark on a cross-country quest to tackle the myths, misconceptions, and self-deceptions that stop people from meditating. They rent a rock-star tour bus (whose previous occupants were Parliament Funkadelic) and travel across eighteen states, talking to scores of would-be meditators, including parents, military cadets, police officers, and even a few celebrities. They create a taxonomy of the most common issues ("I suck at this," "I don't have the time," etc.) and offer up science-based life hacks to help people overcome them. Amid it all unspools the strange and hilarious story of what happens when a congenitally sarcastic, type-A journalist and a groovy Canadian mystic embark on an epic road trip into America's neurotic underbelly, as well as their own
The perfect book for the spirituality sceptics who really do need meditation in their daily routine. This fifth anniversary edition features a new preface and new guided meditations.
