How To Handle Your Demons | Vinny Ferraro

This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, happy Friday, everybody. The mind is a wild place.

There's this joke. I don't know who who originated the joke, but one meditation teacher said something like, my mind is a dangerous neighborhood. I don't go in there alone. You know, this just is boiling over with all these different neurotic patterns and little characters that we've got. You know, for me, like I've got like an angry character who I named after my grandfather.

I've got a hustler ambitious character who I named after a great grandfather of mine who was a crook. Seriously he was a crook. And so there's so much going on internally, much of it very, very difficult. The good news is there are ways to boost your sanity quotient, practices that have stood the test of time and also are now withstanding a lot of scientific scrutiny. And today we're going to talk about how you can pick the sanest or smartest.

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