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The Psychology of Money | Morgan Housel Jan 09, 2023

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Money is often a messy and complicated topic that provokes a lot of anxiety.

Today's show is the first episode of a two-part series on managing our relationship to money and understanding what role money really plays when it comes to our happiness.

Morgan Housel is the author of The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness. Translated into over 50 languages with over two million copies sold, Housel is a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, winner of the New York Times Sidney Award, and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.

In this conversation we talk about:

The difference between happiness and contentment
The difference between being rich and being wealthy
The elusive but crucial concept of "enough"
The importance of not moving the goalposts when it comes to enough-ness
Why financial success is more about behavior than intelligence
How our lived experiences impact our perspectives on money

Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/morgan-housel-543

The Enlightened Mind | Part 5 of The Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness Jan 06, 2023

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What is the Dalai Lama's own meditation practice like? In this final episode, the Dalai Lama goes into great detail about the whys and wherefores of meditation, taking us way into the deep end. We cover single-pointed versus analytical meditation, gross and subtle levels of the mind, "true cessation," and how we can use sleep as practice for the moment of death. Dr. Davidson returns to explain key, esoteric terms and to help us understand how we can apply elements of the Dalai Lama's practice to our everyday lives.

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Is Reincarnation Real? | Part 4 of The Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness Jan 05, 2023

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One of the Dalai Lama's most challenging teachings, especially for secular western minds, is reincarnation. In this episode, His Holiness describes the Buddhist deity who he believes to be his "boss." Dan then sits down with Richie again to discuss whether there is any scientific evidence for rebirth. The episode begins and ends with emotional moments, where members of our team respond with tears to being in the presence of the Dalai Lama.

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Wise Selfishness | Part 3 of The Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness Jan 04, 2023

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How can we get better at selfishness? That's one of many fascinating topics we cover in this episode, in which we play snippets from Dan's one-on-one interview with His Holiness, and then unpack it all with Dr. Richard Davidson, neuroscientist and founder of the Center for Healthy Minds. We talk to His Holiness about "wise selfishness," how to handle our enemies, and whether he ever gets angry. Then Richie recounts a time when His Holiness exhibited a rare flash of anger— towards him, in fact.

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The Cake Incident | Part 2 of The Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness Jan 03, 2023

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The Dalai Lama makes a risky move. When confronted by a young American woman coping with incredible loss, he does something surprising and counterintuitive. The incident surfaces a question that is more urgent now than ever: As social media, tribalism, individualism, and a global pandemic conspire to keep us separated from each other, how do we maintain what psychologists call "social fitness"?

In conversation with Dr. Richard J. Davidson, world renowned neuroscientist and longtime friend and collaborator of the Dalai Lama, we unpack the scientifically demonstrated benefits of the social connection embodied by His Holiness, and give easily accessible strategies to incorporate this wisdom into your everyday life. Also, Dan has a bit of an identity crisis.

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The Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness | Part 1 Jan 02, 2023

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Dan flies to Dharamsala, India to spend two weeks in the orbit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This is the first installment of a five-part audio documentary series, something we've never done before now. Over the course of the episodes, we talk to His Holiness about practical strategies for thorny dilemmas, including: how to get along with difficult people; whether compassion can cut it in an often brutal world; why there is a self-interested case for not being a jerk; and how to create social connection in an era of disconnection. We also get rare insights from the Dalai Lama into everything from the mechanics of reincarnation to His Holiness's own personal mediation practice.

In this first installment, Dan watches as a young activist directly challenges His Holiness: In a world plagued by climate change, terrorism, and other existential threats, is the Dalia Lama's message of compassion practical — or even relevant?

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Adam Grant on Perfectionism and Procrastination Dec 28, 2022

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According to guest Adam Grant, excellence does not require perfectionism, and rather than obsessing over the outcome of your work, there are better ways of measuring your own success.

Adam Grant is a frequent flier on this show and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 5 books that have sold millions of copies and have been translated into 35 languages: Think Again, Give and Take, Originals, Option B, and Power Moves. He's an organizational psychologist who has been the top-rated professor at Wharton for seven years. He's also the host of a newish podcast, called Re:Thinking with Adam Grant, in addition to his other chart-topping podcast, called WorkLife.

In this conversation, we talked about:

Adam's definition of neurotic vs. normal perfectionism
Why he thinks we're seeing a rise in perfectionism amongst younger people
Strategies for managing perfectionism
A different metric for measuring the quality of our work
The importance of finding the right judges of our work
Reimagining our relationship to failure by setting a failure budget
The difference between procrastination vs. what he personally suffers from: "precrastination"

Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/adam-grant-547

This Scientist Says One Emotion Might Be the Key to Happiness. Can You Guess What It Is? | Dacher Keltner Dec 26, 2022

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Our guest today is one of the most prominent happiness researchers in the world, and he has come to the conclusion that living the good life boils down to one thing: finding awe. We're going to learn what awe does to your body, how it changes your sense of self and your relationship to the world, and why we evolved to feel awe. We're also going to get eight simple strategies for mainlining awe into our everyday lives.

Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the faculty director of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. His new book is called, Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.

In this conversation we talk about:

What awe is exactly
How awe is different from other primal emotions like fear and appreciation of beauty
Why we are awe-starved in our culture right now
The connection between awe and morality
How to get something called "moral beauty" into our lives as an alternative to the outrage served up by social media
The importance of something called "collective effervescence"
How to use nature, music, and even death as sources of awe
How to understand epiphanies
And how awe has the potential to get us into trouble sometimes

Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/dacher-keltner-546

Brené Brown Says You're Doing Feelings Wrong Dec 21, 2022

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Brené Brown has found that most people are only able to identify three emotions: happy, sad and pissed off.

In this episode we explore how better understanding the full spectrum of your emotions, rather than drowning in them, can become an upward spiral.

Brené Brown is the author of six #1 New York Times bestsellers. Her latest book is Atlas of the Heart, which is also the name of her HBO Max series. Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston and a visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. Her TED talk on the Power of Vulnerability is one of the top five most-viewed TED talks in the world, with over 50 million views.

In this episode we talk about:

Why she decided to map the 87 key emotions and experiences
How she was deeply influenced by the Buddhist concept of the "near enemy"
Why she no longer believes it's possible to read emotions in other people
And why meaningful connections require boundaries

Content Warning: This episode contains explicit language, but a clean version of the episode is available at tenpercent.com and on the Ten Percent Happier app.

Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/brene-brown-436-rerun

When It Comes to Habits, There Are Four Types of People. Which Are You? | Gretchen Rubin Dec 19, 2022

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The New Year is approaching and this is a time when many of us think about making and breaking new habits. So today we're bringing on one of the smartest people when it comes to habits, best-selling author and speaker Gretchen Rubin. Gretchen's contention is that before you embark on a self-improvement project, it's crucial to have some self-awareness about what kind of person you are. She has devised a framework called the Four Tendencies, which helps you identify your personality type in order to gain powerful insights into how you make or break habits.

Rubin is a lawyer by training and began her career clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Gretchen then went on to write a series of books that examine small and doable ways to boost our happiness in everyday life. These include: The Happiness Project, which spent two years on the bestseller list and sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide, and Better Than Before. We initially conducted the interview you're about to hear back in 2017, when Gretchen released a book called The Four Tendencies.

In this episode we talk about:

How and why Gretchen developed the Four Tendencies framework
How Gretchen's framework can give each of us a recipe for successful habit change
Breaking down the Four Tendencies: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, or Rebels
How these Four Tendencies are an overlapping Venn diagram
What "obliger rebellion" is and how to spot it in your relationships
The value of forming an accountability group
And why Gretchen sometimes calls herself a happiness bully

Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/gretchen-rubin-99-rerun

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