10% Happier with Dan Harris · 2025-07-11 · 25 min · 4,538 words

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It's the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Have you ever had that experience where uh Your brain just gets fixated on something and just starts spiraling out. You start imagining all the horrible things that are going to happen to you.

This happens to me all the time. I suspect it happens to you all the time. So what do you do in those moments? Today we're going to get advice from an unlikely source, one of our greatest living comedians, Bill Hayter, who is hilarious and also quite self-aware and quite willing to talk about his own stuff. So before we hear from Bill, just a little context.

Last month during our GetFitSanely series, we asked listeners to tell us about some of their favorite episodes from past iterations of GetFitSanely series that we've run over the years. We heard from lots of listeners, including Abby and Shannon. It was really cool. So this month, we actually wanted to ask members of the team at 10% happier to share a few of their favorite past episodes. And you will be hearing said episodes on Fridays throughout the month of July.

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