Are You Living a Good Life? | James Patterson and Patrick Leddin

It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey gang, today I want to get you to chew on some provocative questions. Here's the first one. Are you leading a good life?

Here's another one. Does any part of your life need a shakeup right now? Are you in a rut in some area of your life? One more question. In a world of constant change and non-negotiable disruption, how do you go from fearing impermanence to harnessing it at work and beyond?

I have two guests today. The first is James Patterson, the massively popular novelist, the creator of such characters as Alex Cross, and the holder of the Guinness World Record for the most number one New York Times bestsellers by a single author, 67. The second guest is Patrick Ledden, PhD, formerly of Vanderbilt University, where he served as director of the program of business studies, together James, and Patrick have written a new book called Disrupt Everything and Win. In this conversation we talk about why we're living in an age of disruption, the five steps for handling disruption, what Jim and Patrick call the positive disruptor loop, the one question to ask yourself when you're trying to identify your purpose, and much more.

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