Ten Percent Happier · 10% Happier

The Neuroscience of Flourishing: Four Practices for Turning Stress and Anxiety Into Clarity and Calm | Richard Davidson and Cortland Dahl

March 30, 2026·1 hr 7 min·5 clips
What if the secret to mental well-being isn't happiness, but something much more radical?
Dan Harris opens up whether hard emotions can sit beside well-being.

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A grounded meditation conversation that treats flourishing as practice, not a personality type.

Richard Davidson and Cortland Dahl frame flourishing as something learned, not something you are born with, and the episode stays strongest when it gets practical.

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You want a calmer, more practical take on flourishing without a formal meditation setup.

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