How a Buddhist Monk Deals With Anxiety | Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey everybody, how are we doing? I had a funny experience when I was asked to give a TED talk a couple of years ago. I showed up at the TED conference in Vancouver.

And I was completely freaked out and anxious. I know, I know, I know. I've been doing public speaking my whole life. How could I be so nervous? Don't forget, I'm the guy who had a panic attack on live television, which you can Google.

I think if you put in the words panic attack on television, it's the first result. It's probably the best known achievement, if you want to call it that, in my life, having a live panic attack. So that explains, in part at least, why I was so nervous when I arrived at Ted. While that panic attack back in 2004 was largely fueled by cocaine, which I don't do anymore, I still really do get nervous about public speaking. Plus, I'd never done a TED talk before, and that seemed like a uniquely terrifying experience.

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