A Toolkit for a Noisy Mind: How John Green Manages Anxiety, Depression, and Intrusive Thoughts

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, my fellow suffering beings, how are we doing? Today we've got a wide-ranging, super interesting and in its own way very practical conversation with the writer and youtuber John Green, who has a lot of experience, way too much experience, I think he would say, in managing anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts.

We're gonna do a deep dive into his toolkit for managing the aforementioned, which includes a lot of effective strategies. We're also going to talk about his view of God, how he maintains hope in a chaotic and unfair world, and why he wrote a whole book recently about the thing that terrifies him. Many of you know John Green, but for those of you who don't, he's the author of many, many best-selling books, including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and Turtles All the Way Down. He's not only a writer, he does a ton of stuff on YouTube with his brother Hank. John has created something called Vlog Brothers and also an educational channel called Crash Course.

So John's coming up. Before we dive in though, heads up, we're in the middle of a five-day meditation challenge over on my new meditation app, 10% with Dan Harris, and it's not too late to join. The challenge is called Even You Can Meditate. Every day it features a new meditation from the great Seb and A. Selassie.

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