Is Your Life All Checklist and No Joy? Here's How To Actually Enjoy It. | Gary Shteyngart
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Hey everybody, welcome to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. As you may have noticed, there's a kind of joylessness to modern life, which is so often characterized by uh optimization, perfectionism, consumerism. I could go on. My guest today However. Is taking a stand against this uh grim riptide.
His name is Gary Steingart. Uh he's an excellent novelist. Uh he's written two of my favorite novels in the last couple of decades. One called Absurdistan and the other called Uh The Russian Deputant's Handbook. Uh he's out now with a new collection of essays entitled The sensualist Gary Sternhardt. Welcome to the show. Great to be here. Thanks for having me, Dana. I'm honored to have you on the show. What's essentialist? Well
I think a sensualist and I am a a sensualist so According to the book The Essentialist, but I I don't know if I'm gonna go that far. Uh somebody who really enjoys life as it comes towards them? You know, even when things aren't quite going right in a
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