Richard Davidson & Cortland Dahl: “Flourishing Is Contagious, and It’s Easier Than You Think”

The Sounds True Podcast Network. This is the kind of evidence that leads us to title the book the way we did, that we literally are born to flourish. This isn't like another self-improvement program. It's really recognizing what's already here, what we already have, and then building from there.

And it's just a totally different inner process when you view it that way. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guests are Richie Davidson and Cortland Dahl from the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and they're the authors of the new book, Born to Flourish, How New Science and Ancient Wisdom Reveal A simple path to thriving. Perhaps you've heard of Richie Davidson. He's one of the most highly cited scientists in the world.

He's known for his groundbreaking work studying emotion and the brain, and also what we can learn from long-term meditators that we can put into practical application in our lives. Cortland Dahl is a contemplative scientist who works closely with Ritchie at the Center for Healthy Minds. He's a translator of Buddhist texts, he's author of the book A Meditator's Guide to Buddhism, and he's co-founder and executive director of Tirgar International, which is a global meditation community rooted in the teachings of Mingur Rinpeche.

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