Stop Trying to Become Someone New: Get Past Constant Comparison and Return to What Works For You | Sam Sanders

This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey, hey, how are we doing? I think quite commonly when we contemplate the various levers we could pull to upgrade our mental health, to get happier, We consider things like sleep, exercise, meditation, etc., but there's a ton of evidence to suggest that aesthetic experiences, i.e.

beauty, are also extremely powerful ways to boost your well-being. This could be nature, but also, of course, art, and not just fine art that you see in museums. I'm talking about movies, music, TV shows, the stuff that I personally love. So today we're going to play you a conversation between me and my friend, Sam, who I'll tell you about in a second, about which pieces of art reliably produce happiness and meaning for us. The friend in question is Sam Sanders, who is the host of the Sam Sanders Show.

I should say that we initially recorded this conversation that you're about to hear for Sam's show back at around New Year's, but we're dropping it for you here because We think you'll like it and also because we think you might want to check out Sam's show, which I highly recommend. He's awesome, as you'll hear. Sam has a term for the pieces of art, music, TV, or film that we return to again and again. He calls them modern scriptures.

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