10% Happier

'An enormously smart, clear-eyed, brave hearted, and quite personal look at the benefits of meditation. This is a book that will help people' ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of Eat, Pray, Love
After having a nationally televised panic attack, news anchor DAN HARRIS knew he had to make some changes. His on-air meltdown helped spark a strange, unplanned odyssey, which took him from the outer reaches of neuroscience to the bizarre fringes of the American spiritual scene, meeting a host of famous names along the way. A life-long sceptic, Dan started his search deeply suspicious of self-help solutions until, to his vast surprise, he stumbled an effective way to manage the relentless, impossible-to-satisfy voice in his head once and for all: meditation.
'10% HAPPIER is hands down the best book on meditation for the uninitiated, the sceptical, or the merely curious. Part confessional, part investigative journalism, 10% HAPPIER is 100% engrossing' DANIEL GOLEMAN, author of Emotional Intelligence and Focus
'A sceptic's guide to meditation. With great humour he goes into it kicking and resisting and ends up embracing mindfulness and explaining it brilliantly, while never losing that humour or becoming part of the 'socks and sandals' brigade - I loved it' RUBY WAX, author of Sane New World
'A wonderful book and excellent advice' ANDY PUDDICOMBE, founder of Headspace

**THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD**
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, a revised and updated edition of the award-winning classic that changed the way we look at meditation.


'A sceptic's guide to meditation . . . I loved it' - Ruby Wax


'An enormously smart, clear-eyed, brave-hearted, and quite a personal look at the benefits of meditation' - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love

We all have an inner narrator. It's what has us losing our temper unnecessarily, checking our emails compulsively, eating when we're not hungry, and fixating on the past and the future at the expense of the present. Most of us assume we're stuck with this voice - but Dan Harris stumbled upon an effective way to quiet his mind.


After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help guru, and a gaggle of brain scientists. Eventually, Harris realized that the source of his problems was the very thing he always thought was his greatest asset: the incessant, insatiable voice in his head.

10% Happier is considered a classic text on the power of meditation and an introduction to the practice that can convert even the most hardened sceptic.

This 10th Anniversary Edition includes a new preface from Dan Harris and a revised and expanded appendix, filled with guided meditations and practical advice for people looking to build a meditation habit.