10% Happier

What if the path to personal growth isn’t about becoming a better version of ourselves, but letting go of the patterns that keep us stuck?

Twenty years after publishing The Happiness Hypothesis, Dr. Jonathan Haidt joins Dan Harris to revisit the ancient wisdom and modern psychological research explored in his influential book, now available in a revised 20th-anniversary edition.

What does it really take to build and maintain meaningful relationships?

What if building a fulfilling career meant paying less attention to traditional measures of success and more attention to what genuinely energizes you?

What if feeling calmer didn’t require major lifestyle changes, but simply noticing and creating small moments of ease throughout the day?

Dan Harris revisits a conversation that has stayed with him about our tendency to believe we’ll finally relax once everything is organized, completed, and under control.

Dan Harris once dismissed the idea of the “inner child,” but psychoanalyst Galit Atlas offers a different perspective: the child we once were can remain an active emotional self-state, influencing adult relationships and reactions without us realizing it.

Emotion regulation isn’t about suppressing feelings or leaving them at the door.

More than a decade after Being Mortal was published, Dan Harris talks with Atul Gawande about its unexpectedly hopeful message: when facing serious illness or declining independence, better decisions can begin by asking what matters most to a person’s life rather than simply what medicine can do.

As part of Ten Percent Happier‘s 10th anniversary series, Dan Harris brings together Gretchen Rubin and Laurie Santos to create a top 10 list of practical, evidence-backed ways to move through periods of feeling stuck, uncertain, or unable to make an important decision.

Originally aired in 2024, this conversation explores what decades of happiness research can teach us about getting happier.

Duhigg breaks down the mechanics of habit formation, live-coaches Dan on his late-night procrastination problem, and explores how GLP-1 medications may be opening a new kind of behavior-change window.