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How To Handle AI Anxiety: A Computer Scientist and a Buddhist Teacher On Managing Uncertainty | Cal Newport & Matthew Brensilver

Will AI take our jobs? Kill us? This episode provides both fact-checking and a psychological survival guide.

How to say no without being an asshole

The middle path between being a doormat and a dick

Longevity Secrets (And Controversies) From The Blue Zones | Dan Buettner

Insights from the places on the planet where people apparently live the longest and healthiest lives.

Two years ago I did something terrifying

An anniversary, a thank you, and a preview of upcoming stuff

The Science That Makes Bigfoot Slightly Less Crazy | Miguel Sancho

Veteran journalist Miguel Sancho — executive producer of History Channel's The Proof Is Out There and author of the new book Evidence of the Extraordinary — walks his old friend Dan through the actual scientific case for why "Bigfoot" isn't laughable on its face. "The prime example is a fish called the coelacanth, and people thought that died out hundreds of millions of years ago. And then, I want to say in the 1930s or '40s, one pops up in the fisherman's net off the coast of South Africa." The working hypothesis, minus the campfire theatrics: an ancient common ancestor — some relative of G

Why Believing in Something Bigger Doesn't Make You Gullible | Miguel Sancho

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership How open-minded should you be about UFOs, Bigfoot, ghosts, and the afterlife? On the one hand, intellectual humility is a virtue. On the other hand, if you're too open-minded, your brain falls out. Dan's old ABC News colleague — a serious, hard-bitten investigative journalist — has spent the last six years actually looking at the evidence, and he's landed somewhere Dan didn't expect. Miguel Sancho is a journalist and

The Evidence for Aliens, the Afterlife, Bigfoot, Sea Monsters, and More | Miguel Sancho

An investigative journalist on why reincarnation, ghosts, and unexplained phenomena deserve more scrutiny; plus, why our need to believe in something bigger isn't something to be embarrassed about.

I Started Meditating to Feel Less. It Did the Opposite | Susan Piver

Buddhist teacher Susan Piver — author of the new book Inexplicable Magic and a frequent guest on the show — on the bait-and-switch at the heart of a meditation practice. "I adopted it to become less vulnerable... But that's not what happens. You become more affected. You become more open." Most of us come to meditation for less: less upset, less thrashing, less feeling. Susan came for the same reason. What she got was the opposite. Her heart got softer. Things landed harder. She became more permeable, not less. And she's candid about it — "I wish it didn't, if I'm being honest, but it does."

You're Already a Mystic (You Just Don't Know It) | Susan Piver

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership Normally when someone uses the word "magic," Dan gets hives. But when a beloved returning guest with 30+ years of Buddhist practice uses it — with all the metaphysical connotations — he pays attention. This is a conversation about the mysterious "last mile" of meditation, the parts that don't show up in the neuroscience lab: heart softening, sensitivity expanding, and things you were looking for showing up on their own

You Can Stop Fixing Yourself: Buddhist Advice on Boundaries, Rituals, and Dropping Your Self-Aggression | Susan Piver

Plus: Why you're a "mystic" even though you don't know it, how to find the "magic" in meditation, and the power of simple apologies (and cleaning the dishes).

Don't Lose What You Have to What You Have Lost | Dr. Lucy Hone

Resilience researcher Dr. Lucy Hone — author of How Will I Ever Get Through This? — on a tool she started teaching after her 12-year-old daughter Abby was killed in a 2014 car accident, along with Abby's best friend and her friend's mother. "Don't lose what you have to what you have lost." The line came to her in the immediate aftermath, when it felt like her entire world had collapsed. The tool she paired with it is simple. Sit down. Pen and paper. Make a list of what is still true. She was still lucky enough to be a mother to her two boys. She still had her husband, and even though they w

The surprisingly compelling science behind “going to your happy place”

Harnessing your imagination to deal with anxiety, anger, and even injuries

The One Question Everyone Asks When Their Life Falls Apart | Dr. Lucy Hone

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership Everybody loses things. Not just the loved ones we lose to death — but jobs, marriages, dreams, identities, the future we had planned. Our guest calls the big ones BFTs (bloody effing things) and she has spent her career researching what actually helps you get through them. She also, tragically, went from studying resilience academically to living it — after her 12-year-old daughter was killed in a car accident. This c

You Can Get Through It: How to Handle the Hardest Things That Will Ever Happen to You | Dr. Lucy Hone

Why the five stages of grief are a myth, a go-to phrase for when everything's falling apart, and three steps for getting through loss.

The Science of Journaling: How 15 Minutes of Writing Can Free Up Your Brain, Improve Your Health, and Make You a Better Friend | Dr. James Pennebaker

Writing can reduce overthinking, rumination, and anxiety. Here's what the researcher who pioneered the science suggests.

You and Your Partner Are in Two Different Movies | Dr. Cassi Vieten

Clinical psychologist Dr. Cassi Vieten — director of research at UC San Diego's Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and author of the new book Imagine That — on why most fights aren't disagreements. They're two people imagining completely different things. "It's not the sensing of the experience that's different, it's what you're imagining about the experience." The trash sits in the kitchen for three days. Person A watches it pile up and imagines: this person doesn't respect me. This person doesn't care about our home. Person B, sitting on the couch, is nowhere near that thought.

People Who Imagined Getting Stronger Gained 30% More Muscle | Cassi Vieten

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership If you hear the word "imagination" and picture a fifth-grader with a crayon, or a Silicon Valley marketing deck, you're going to want to reconsider. It turns out we're all imagining all day, whether we know it or not — often in paranoid, catastrophic ways — and there's a serious, evidence-backed body of research on how to shift that capacity from working against you to working for you. Dr. Cassi Vieten is a clinical p

The Non-BS Science of Manifestation: How Your Imagination Can Help With Pain, Anxiety, Conflict, and Recovery | Cassi Vieten

How elite athletes use visualization to improve performance, why visualization can turbo-charge physical recovery, and the mental trick that can make your nervous system feel safe.

5 Reasons Your Brain Talks You Out of the Party | Dr. Ben Rein

Stanford neuroscientist Dr. Ben Rein — author of the new book Why Brains Need Friends — on the well-documented mental miscalculations that make you skip the dinner. "We actually think people don't like us as much as they really do. This is called the liking gap." That's just number one. Ben lists five. We underestimate how much people like us. We underestimate how good socializing will feel. We think we're worse at it than we are. We overestimate the odds we'll be rejected. And — the sneaky one — we expect conversations to get progressively worse the longer they go on. (They don't. They stay

The science of being more likable

An evidence-based guide to winning friends and influencing people

Neuroscience Myth-Busting: Sugar, Supplements, Loneliness, and More | Ben Rein

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership There is an ocean of "neuro bullsh*t" out there — expensive supplements, questionable protocols, self-appointed neuroscience influencers with a promo code — and it can be genuinely hard to tell what actually protects your brain. Today's guest, a Stanford neuroscientist with a large online following, has spent years debunking the junk. His conclusion: the single most powerful, evidence-backed thing you can do for your b

The Neuroscience of Likability, Social Connection, and Brain Health | Ben Rein

Plus: Mythbusting sugar, supplements, loneliness, and more.

Clearing Your Mind Is Impossible Unless You've Died | Dan Harris

Dan Harris — bestselling author and host of the Ten Percent Happier podcast — live at the 92nd Street Y with journalist Allison Gilbert, on the meditation myth that keeps everyone from actually doing it. "Clearing your mind is impossible unless you're enlightened or you've died." Dan's read on the state of meditation: the science won. Almost everyone accepts it's good for them. What almost everyone also believes is that they, personally, suck at it — because they can't clear their mind. That self-diagnosis is wrong. The goal, Dan says, isn't a blank mind. It's to focus for a few nanoseconds

The Upward Spiral: How Anxiety, Self-Compassion, & Your Relationships Are All Connected | Dan Harris

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership We're doing something a little different today. Instead of Dan interviewing a smart guest, Dan IS the guest — being interviewed live at the 92nd Street Y by the journalist Allison Gilbert as part of her Connected Lives series (an event held in honor of the late Dr. Ruth Westheimer). It's also, as it happens, the 10-year anniversary of this podcast, which feels like a decent moment to reflect. Allison Gilbert is a jour

Self-Help Without Other People Is Just Selfish — and Here’s the Science to Prove It | Dan Harris

Allison Gilbert interviewed Dan Harris live at the 92nd Street Y — and it turned into one of the most practical conversations he’s ever had about anxiety, self-compassion, and why inner work is...

Is It Possible to Work Less Hard to Be Right Where You Are? | Johanna Franzel

Somatic practitioner and teacher Johanna Franzel — author of the new book Write Yourself Home — on the workshop question she opens every session with, and the quiet revolution living inside it. "Is it possible to work less hard to be right where you are?" She hears the answer to this question all the time from students: they keep it on a Post-it, on the desktop, in the margin of a notebook. Because the assumption we walk around with is that a real change has to be dramatic — the big move, the resignation, the exit. Johanna's contention is that most of it isn't visible from the outside. Drop

Why Your Nervous System Won't Calm Down (And What Actually Works) | Johanna Franzel

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership If your nervous system feels like it's set to "elevated threat" all day for no obvious reason — a bad email, an ambient sense of dread, a body you're mostly at war with — this episode is for you. It's a practical, funny, deeply useful conversation about getting out of your head and into your body, with a guest who came to this work the hard way. Johanna Franzel is a teacher, a somatic practitioner, and the author of W

Resetting Your Nervous System When You're Anxious, Hurting, or Just Powering Through | Johanna Franzel

How to calm down fast with an 'inventory' practice, how to build 'resources' you can call on anytime, and why 'healing' might be the wrong goal to chase. Plus, living with autoimmune disorder...

You Are Not Self-Made | Nedra Glover Tawwab

Therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab — bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace and Drama Free, and author of the new book The Balancing Act — on the cultural myth she calls the "dependency crisis." "We have this idea that we are self-made, we can do it ourselves, when in actuality there are many people along the way... who constitute and build up who we are." Nedra helped popularize the boundaries movement. She's watching it curdle. What was meant as a tool for tending real relationships has quietly become permission to opt out of them — to build a life around not needing anyone. Her corr

For when other people are being a pain in the ass

6 simple hacks for navigating the messiness of human affairs

How To Balance Your Relationships When Others Won't Change | Nedra Glover Tawwab

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership The core problem with being a human is that we need other humans to be happy — and other humans can be a giant pain in the ass. That's the whole thing. That's the balancing act. Today's guest has spent her career giving people specific, practical, therapist-vetted tools for how to do it well. Nedra Glover Tawwab is a therapist and one of the most-followed voices in mental health online, and she's back on the show for

For The Lonely, Suffocated, or Overextended: How To Balance Your Relationships When Others Won't Change | Nedra Glover Tawwab

Plus: how to build a village, why your attachment style isn't your destiny, and a two-step method for asking for help that actually works.

You’re Invited: An Actually Enjoyable Meditation Retreat

Join Me, Sebene Selassie, and Jeff Warren—October 16-18

When You Don't Know What You Actually Want: How To Say No, When To Say Yes, and The One Question That Cuts Through It | Yara Shahidi

The "hard yes" list, the intentional pursuit of being bad at things (and how that opens doors you didn't know were closed), being "on intimate terms with catastrophe," and optimism as a daily pactice

The Book Sylvia Boorstein Would Write at 90 | Sylvia Boorstein

Legendary Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein — co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, author of five books including It's Easier Than You Think and Happiness Is an Inside Job, and about to turn 90 — on the moment the teachings on impermanence stopped being theoretical. "I thought I would write a book called It's Harder Than You Can Imagine Coping With Being Seriously Old." Her first book was called It's Easier Than You Think. This is the update. All the skills and competencies you spent a lifetime honing and taking vitamins to protect — she says — quietly start to stop working. She reme

What 50 Years of Meditation Taught This Teacher About Anger, Aging, and Grief | Sylvia Boorstein

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership Sylvia Boorstein just turned 90. She has been practicing Buddhism for nearly half a century. If you were going to design a person to talk to about what actually matters as the years pile up, you would design Sylvia. This conversation is a gift, and the through-line — spoken to strangers on planes, whispered to yourself in the mirror, said to someone else's grandfather dying in a hospital bed — is: you're gonna be all r

You're Gonna Be Alright No Matter What: On Facing Anger, Aging, and Loss With Humor and Grace | Sylvia Boorstein

The legendary dharma teacher on self-acceptance, the two-sentence trick she uses on her own anger, and what actually makes her happy after 90 years of living.

Why Lying Is Stupid (Even If You're Good At It) | John Richardson

John Richardson — negotiation instructor at Harvard Law School and MIT's Sloan School of Management, and author of the new book Never Settle: Persuasion and Negotiation Skills to Get What You Want — on why lying is a losing tactic, even for people who think they're good at it. "I discourage lying. I think it's bad strategy. I think it hurts you more than it helps you, even if you're good at it." The blind spot: most of us have listened to someone at some point and thought, this person is lying to me. And most of the time, we don't say so. Which means the liar walks away thinking it worked. M

How to get the most out of your therapist (according to a therapist)

Insider tips from Lori Gottlieb

Why Knowing Your Alternative Is the Most Important Skill in Any Negotiation | John Richardson

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership If you think of "negotiation" as a boardroom-only activity, our guest wants you to reconsider. You're negotiating with your kids about screen time, with your partner about vacation, with your boss about a raise, with the person at customer service about the fee. It's a skill, not a personality trait — which means it's trainable, and small improvements pay off compounding interest. John Richardson has taught negotiatio

How To Read People, Calm Tension, Build Trust, and Ask For What You're Worth | John Richardson

An MIT/Harvard negotiation expert on the two types of "no," the FBI hostage negotiator trick you can use with anyone, and the rhetorical move that improves outcomes for women.

That Feeling of “Always-Behind and Never-Enough”—Here’s the Antidote | Ellen Hendriksen

Move on from the inner critic and beat perfectionism without lowering your standards.

The Cello She Never Mentioned in Six Months | Lori Gottlieb

Therapist Lori Gottlieb — author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and the New York Times "Ask the Therapist" column — on what she got wrong about virtual therapy, and what the pandemic revealed she couldn't see from her office. "A colleague had said that doing therapy online was like doing therapy with a condom on, so I had quoted that in my book — and then COVID happened." Lori had actually put that line in print. Then she had to do it. And she was surprised. Case in point: a patient she'd been seeing for six months in her office. First virtual session, Lori spots a cello in the backgro

Boundaries, Coming To Peace With Your Parents, & Why It's Not Too Late To Change | Lori Gottlieb

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership The therapist in this episode has spent decades quietly assembling the most useful, memorable, and repeatable one-liners about the human condition you'll hear all year. "Insight is the booby prize of therapy." "Before diagnosing depression, make sure they aren't surrounded by assholes." "We marry our unfinished business." "You have to grieve the childhood you didn't have before you can have the adulthood you want." She

Secrets From the Therapist's Couch: How Boundaries Actually Work, How To Come To Peace With Your Parents, and Why It's Not Too Late To Change | Lori Gottlieb

Plus: How your envy can be useful, why you're an unreliable narrator of your own life, and why you keep choosing partners who echo the unfinished business of your childhood.

She Made Her Doctor Do a Magic Trick | Kate Bowler

Duke professor Kate Bowler — four-time New York Times bestselling author, host of Everything Happens, and author of the new book Joyful Anyway — on the strangest move she ever pulled from a hospital bed. "You can take the surgical drain out, but I need you to do it as a magic trick." Kate is post-op. The doctor she hates walks in to remove a surgical drain she didn't even know was inside her. She wants to say no. She realizes she doesn't have the option. And then a stranger question surfaces: "If I don't get a choice, is there anything else there?" Her answer: yes, actually. The magic trick

Hacks for Overthinkers

Magic Mantras from Joseph Goldstein

What Happens When You Stop Trying to Fix Your Life | Kate Bowler

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership Forty-eight hours after our guest was told she'd probably die within a year, joy showed up. Not happiness — actual, weird, disorienting, "why am I laughing at this" joy. And then it kept showing up in her worst moments. She's spent the years since trying to figure out why, and this conversation is the result. Kate Bowler, PhD, is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, a professor at Duke Divinity School, and t

Joyful Anyway: Surviving the Sh*t Show of Regular Life | Kate Bowler

Why optimization is a joy blocker, how to find the 'yes' inside the 'no,' and why that restless ache you can't shake is actually your compass.

The Moment His Fake Guru Became Real | Vikram Gandhi

Filmmaker Vikram Gandhi — director of the cult documentary Kumaré and co-director of the new HBO film The Man Will Burn — on the moment a comedy bit about a fake guru stopped being a comedy bit. "This girl looked at me and said, 'I will just, like, follow you anywhere.' And from that moment, I was like, 'Oh, sht.' Like, this is some real sht." Vikram flew to New Jersey with a made-up character, hired extras, and a yoga studio to see if "Kumaré" could pass. He was inventing mantras on the fly. Making up rituals. Pressing his forehead against strangers' foreheads to "shoot spiritual energy int

What Burning Man, Bitcoin, and Fake Gurus Have in Common | Vikram Gandhi

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership Dan has been enthusiastically evangelized about Burning Man for decades and has never gone. Today's guest is the person who might finally get him there — a filmmaker who has spent years thinking about why humans need myths, gurus, rituals, and each other, and what happens when we try to build a temporary utopia in the desert (or a fake ashram in Phoenix, or a global currency around a person nobody has ever met). Vikra

Why We Crave Gurus: A Skeptic's Reckoning With Belief, Bitcoin, and Burning Man | Vikram Gandhi

What a fake guru discovered about genuine connection, why ancient wisdom survives even the most rigorous skepticism, and the real reason humans crave spiritual authority.

Anxiety, Overthinking, and Overwhelm: Buddhist Hacks For Changing Your Mind | Joseph Goldstein

Simple practices for not believing everything you think, becoming less reactive, and handling whatever life throws at you.

Why "I'm a Perfectionist" Is a Red Flag | Dr. Gordon Flett

Dr. Gordon Flett — retired York University psychology professor and 40-year perfectionism researcher — on why the classic humble-brag answer to "what's your biggest weakness?" should worry you, not impress anyone. "Perfectionists tend to ruminate a lot about it and go over and over it so they can keep the stress fresh for them." Most of us think perfectionism is high standards with a nice work ethic attached. Flett's four decades of research say otherwise. In one of his own studies on Canadian professors, perfectionism actually undermined performance and produced lower-quality work. The mec

Stop trying to be nice. Do this instead.

Buddhist advice for navigating the messiness of human affairs

Perfectionism and Loneliness Are the Same Problem | Gordon Flett

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership "I'm a perfectionist" gets said in job interviews like it's some kind of humblebrag — but the research is pretty clear that perfectionism isn't a productivity edge. It's a health risk, a mental health risk, and a shortcut to burnout. The good news: there's a specific, well-studied antidote, and it's not what you'd expect. Dr. Gordon Flett is a recently retired professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, and

Perfectionism, Burnout, and Self-Doubt: Break the Loop with the Science of Mattering | Gordon Flett

Plus: combatting loneliness, turning down the volume on social comparison, and why mattering to a few people beats outperforming everyone.

The Buddha's Diagnosis of the Human Condition | Dan Harris

"The cause of our suffering is craving or thirst — wanting things to be a specific way in a world where everything's changing all the time." The Buddha started out a spoiled prince, hit a crisis when he clocked that death, illness, and old age are non-negotiable, and went off on a six-year spiritual bender. He starved himself, stood on one foot, ran every extreme practice — until he landed on the middle path between self-mortification and self-indulgence, and got enlightened. The framework he came back with — the Four Noble Truths — is basically a diagnosis. Life is suffering. Suffering is c

The Founding Story Behind the Center That Launched Modern Mindfulness | The Founders of IMS

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership Fifty years ago, a group of 20-something Americans just back from India — with almost no organizational experience and definitely no money — somehow ended up buying an 80-room former Catholic novitiate in rural Massachusetts and turning it into the retreat center that would go on to reshape American Buddhism. If you meditate today, there's a decent chance you can trace the causal chain back to what these five people di

How a Group of Broke 20-Somethings Accidentally Launched the Mindfulness Movement | Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg

The time the Dalai Lama went bowling in their basement, the time a stranger showed up with exactly the $15,000 they were missing — and more behind-the-scenes stories from 50 years of IMS.

Love Is Not a Feeling. It's an Ability. | Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg on a line from Dan In Real Life that changed how she thinks about love: "Love is not a feeling, it's an ability." If it's a feeling, someone else can withhold it. If it's an ability, it's yours — covered over sometimes, but never destroyed. Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/Zr-TASjMJ74 Which version of love have you been operating on — feeling, or ability?

The Buddhist Communication Rules That Actually Work | Sharon Salzberg

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership Most of us are talking to other humans all day, every day — and almost none of us have ever been formally taught how to do it well. Turns out the Buddha had a lot to say about this. This episode is a masterclass in what Buddhists call "right speech," delivered by one of the most beloved teachers on the planet. Sharon Salzberg is a legend in the meditation world, a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (which ju

How To Communicate Effectively With Difficult People: When to Tell the Truth, When to Push Back, and Why Kindness Isn't the Same as Being Nice | Sharon Salzberg

Plus: the four questions the Buddha said you should ask before you speak, the truth about gossip, and what to do when compassion and honesty pull in opposite directions.

Even Soldiers Take Shifts | Guy Winch

Psychologist Guy Winch — author of the new book Mind Over Grind — on why "always on" is a cultural fiction that's actively costing you. "If you're thinking about work when you're at home, you're at work. If you're thinking about work every five minutes on the weekend, you're working." Guy's redefinition is sharp. Work isn't where you sit. It's where your attention lives. If your head's back at the office on Sunday morning, you didn't take the weekend off — you took the office with you. His metaphor lands even harder. Even soldiers, whose literal job is vigilance, don't stand watch 24/7. The

How to be ambitious without burning out — a simple mindset shift

Switching from a “threat mindset” to a “challenge mindset”

The Real Reason You Can't Stop Thinking About Work After Hours | Guy Winch

Ready to begin or deepen your meditation practice? Join Dan Harris and world-class meditation teachers on the 10% with Dan Harris app here: https://app.danharris.com/membership Work stress is at an all-time high — and it's not just because your job is hard. It's because the psychological barrier between work and home was quietly demolished, and most of us never got it back. Guy Winch has the research-backed playbook for reclaiming your evenings, your weekends, and maybe even your ethics. Guy Winch is a psychologist, author of multiple books including *Emotional First Aid* and *The Squeaky Wh

Your Job Is Hijacking Your Life: How to Set Limits, Decrease Work Stress, and Reclaim Your Evenings | Guy Winch

Why ruminating after hours is unpaid overtime — plus, how to handle bad bosses, beat the Sunday scaries, and actually recharge.

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In an Age of Techno-Pessimism, Here's the Science-Based Case for Optimism | Rob Marciano

On nuclear fusion, solid-state batteries, driverless cars, and other innovations — and why, for one cynical disaster reporter, meeting the scientists building them changed everything.

How To Regulate Your Nervous System: Anxiety, Relationships, and the Baggage You Didn't Ask For | Dr. Bruce Perry

Plus: how trauma rewires the brain, why connection is the most powerful regulator, and small practices that actually work.

Never worry alone

How a crisis got me to follow my own advice

That Background Hum of Worry in Every Important Conversation — Here's What It Is and How to Quiet It | Claude M. Steele

Why talking to your boss, your doctor, or anyone with power puts your brain on high alert — and what a Stanford psychologist says to do about it.

For the Burned Out, Overcommitted, and Perpetually Drained | Robin Arzón

Say "no" more, audit your calendar, rewire your inner critic, and keep the promises you make to yourself.