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funny
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inspiring
reflective
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4.25
10% Happier is everything a good self-help book should be: honest and useful.
Dan Harris, an ABC News journalist, tells us in this partway biographical book, how a series of life events lead him to approach meditation, a practice that although he being skeptical at first, would lead him to improve his life.
Two aspects of the book particularly appealed to me:
1. It is not pretentious, it does not offer false promises or a magic solution to all our problems, just the option of making a small change that can bring us closer to being some percent happier and better people. Better this than nothing, right?
2. Dan demystifies some preconceived ideas about meditation and people who meditate (I liked the word "incensey"). But instead he exposes the possibility of adapting it to our style.
Dan Harris's fresh writing style and sense of humor make this an enjoyable and inspiring read.
Dan Harris, an ABC News journalist, tells us in this partway biographical book, how a series of life events lead him to approach meditation, a practice that although he being skeptical at first, would lead him to improve his life.
Two aspects of the book particularly appealed to me:
1. It is not pretentious, it does not offer false promises or a magic solution to all our problems, just the option of making a small change that can bring us closer to being some percent happier and better people. Better this than nothing, right?
2. Dan demystifies some preconceived ideas about meditation and people who meditate (I liked the word "incensey"). But instead he exposes the possibility of adapting it to our style.
Dan Harris's fresh writing style and sense of humor make this an enjoyable and inspiring read.
Content Warnings
Minor: Cursing
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