10% Happier with Dan Harris · 2025-08-29 · 55 min · 8,911 words

Professional Setbacks Happen to All of Us. Here Are Some Lessons From Resetting My Career. | Dan Harris & Toni Magyar

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This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, gang. Okay. I uh I have a lot to say in the introduction to this episode.

This is a personal episode today, but don't worry. It's also very practical. You're going to hear me talk about what I learned. about issues such as focus, feedback, the disutility of shame or self criticism, and the value of expecting adversity, even though we all want life to be an unbroken upward trajectory of seamless progress. These are all things that I learned, or perhaps

more accurately, relearned when I was forced to uh reset or restart or resuscitate my career last year. Just let me step back for a second and give you some context. Last year at around this time, I went public and announced that I was separating from the meditation app that I co-founded. That separation process was among The most difficult things that I have experienced as a grown up.

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