#1 New York Times Bestseller

Winner of the 2014 Living Right now Book Honor for Inspirational Memoir

‘An enormously wise, clear-eyed, brave-hearted, and quite personal look at the benefits of meditation.’-Elizabeth Gilbert

Nightline anchor Dan Harrisembarks on an urgent, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to obtain happier that is truly achievable.

After using a nationally televised anxiety attack, Dan Harris about 10% Happier Revised Edition: THE WAY I Tamed the Voice in my own Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Advantage, and Found out Self-Help THAT TRULY Works–A True Story knew he had to create some changes. A lifelong non-believer, he found himself on the bizarre adventure involving a disgraced pastor, a mystical self-help guru, and a gaggle of brain scientists. Eventually, Harris recognized that the foundation of his problems was the thing he usually believed was his ideal asset: the incessant, insatiable tone of voice in his mind, which experienced propelled him through the ranks of a hypercompetitive business, but got also led him to make the profoundly stupid decisions that provoked his on-air freak-out.

Finally, Harris discovered an effective way to rein for the reason that voice, something he usually assumed to be either impossible or useless: meditation, an instrument that research suggests can perform everything from decrease your blood circulation pressure to essentially rewire your brain. 10% Happier requires listeners on a ride in the outer gets to of neuroscience to the internal sanctum of network news to the bizarre fringes of America’s spiritual picture, and leaves them with a takeaway that could actually alter their lives.