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A review by drew1013
10% Happier Revised Edition by Dan Harris
4.0
Straight-forward style and helpful. I’d done some meditation in the past, but I was missing an important detail about why it’s useful: the all-day benefits of practiced mindfulness.
This book has brought me back to meditation with a new goal in mind. Not just to do it for relaxation or for its own sake (though those are still valid reasons), but to train the mind to handle day-to-day challenges, to be more resilient to stress, and to make your own happiness.
Ok, so it’s not a wonder drug. It’s a practice. It can be difficult. But so is exercise, and this is brain exercise. This book offered great perspective on the usefulness of meditation via an honest and sardonic personal story. It scraped the crunchy granola crust off the practice of meditation and recontextualized it as a means to achieving self-control and 10% more happiness.
This book has brought me back to meditation with a new goal in mind. Not just to do it for relaxation or for its own sake (though those are still valid reasons), but to train the mind to handle day-to-day challenges, to be more resilient to stress, and to make your own happiness.
Ok, so it’s not a wonder drug. It’s a practice. It can be difficult. But so is exercise, and this is brain exercise. This book offered great perspective on the usefulness of meditation via an honest and sardonic personal story. It scraped the crunchy granola crust off the practice of meditation and recontextualized it as a means to achieving self-control and 10% more happiness.