How to Suffer Well – So You Can Suffer Less | Brother Pháp Dung

It's the ten percent happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Okay. Hello, my fellow. Suffering beings, how we doing?

I've been thinking a lot lately about individualism and how deeply ingrained, for me at least, the notion is. There is so much emphasis in our culture on individual achievement, winning, acquiring, getting known, et cetera. It can even extend in a kind of warped way to meditation, which personally I've often subtly misconstrued as some sort of Solo athletic endeavor.

I'm not trying to say all individualism is bad. I'm not giving up on trying to Publish successful books or grow my podcast or my substack community, blah, blah, blah. But all the data shows very clearly that this is really not a winning strategy for deep and abiding happiness. So today we're going to talk about A cowering modern figure who offered what my guest calls

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