Joseph Goldstein On How To Train Your Runaway Brain
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This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, everybody. Happy New Year. Welcome to 2026.
We've got a fantastic pair of episodes to kick off this new year, both of them featuring my guy Joseph Goldstein. So let's get right to it. You may have noticed that your mind is often out of control. It's populated by racing thoughts, habitual neuroses, ancient grudges. I could go on.
So what can be done about this? Today, as mentioned, I'm going to talk to one of my favorite people, also one of the most prominent meditation teachers in the West, Joseph Goldstein, about how ridiculous our minds are. And by the way, that's a word he uses a lot to describe the mind, ridiculous. So we're going to talk about how ridiculous the mind is, and we're going to talk about some very compelling ways to train these unruly minds. Let me give you a little bit of context for what we're going to do here.
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