Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book [J0217]

2017 - HCDJ Nice clean condition. In this guide to mindfulness and meditation for beginners and experienced meditators alike, Harris and his friend Jeff Warren, a masterful teacher and "Meditation MacGyver," embark on a cross-country quest to tackle the myths, misconceptions, and self-deceptions that stop people from meditating. They rent a rock-star tour bus (whose previous occupants were Parliament Funkadelic) and travel across eighteen states, talking to scores of would-be meditators-including parents, military cadets, police officers, and even a few celebrities. They create a taxonomy of the most common issues ("I suck at this," "I don't have the time," etc.) and offer up science-based life hacks to help people overcome them. The book is filled with game-changing and deeply practical meditation instructions. Amid it all unspools the strange and hilarious story of what happens when a congenitally sarcastic, type-A journalist and a groovy Canadian mystic embark on an epic road trip into America's neurotic underbelly, as well as their own.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I loved this book. Fast easy read, full of the same skepticism I have for this stuff, but with the same belief that meditation and mindfulness can be life changing. So great to have an author like Harris who attacks these topics with such research, humor, but with a genuine curiosity."; "A light read that aims to trouble-shoot the standard barriers to meditation - e.g., I do not have time; I will lose my edge; etc. "; "I found this to be hilarious at times and the mini meditations were helpful as someone interested in trying meditation."