A Radical Question To Put Your Problems Into Perspective | Annaka Harris

It's the ten percent happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Okay, folks, today we have a conversation that will I strongly suspect.

For me at least, when I'm engaged in my lifelong habit of ruminating on my stuff. that mental activity, that noise, blots out the sun, driving me further into my head and cutting me off from the world and all of its Mundane glory. Calls.

being alive thing. Anyway, my guest today is one of my favorite people, Annika Harris. We are not related. Despite sharing a last name, but she is an old friend and somebody I really respect and admire. Anika is a writer with a long and abiding fascination with the subject of consciousness. Do not worry if you don't understand right away what that word means. Anika will explain it for now. Just know that consciousness is one of the most enduring mysteries in all of science.

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