Ten Percent Happier
Sharon returns to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast with Dan Harris to talk about how loving your enemies isn’t about appeasement or being a pushover—but about finding deep strength, clarity, and freedom in your response to conflict, anger, and fear. By skillfully applying mindfulness and lovingkindness (metta), we’re able to transform our relationship with ourselves and others—even amidst today’s divisive times. his episode Sharon and Dan talk about:
Loving your enemies is not submission—it’s about acting with clarity (and sometimes, fierce boundaries) free from corrosive hate.
Fear and anger constrict our minds and options; loving-kindness opens us up to greater wisdom, creativity, and agency.
There are four types of “enemies”: outer, inner, secret, and super-secret—which often have more to do with our internal state than external conflict.
Love, properly understood, is foundationally about connection, not sentimentality—and it can be a radical source of personal strength.
Guests on the Ten Percent Happier Podcast include everyone from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Brené Brown to Karamo from Queer Eye. Dan’s approach is seemingly modest, but secretly radical: happiness is a skill you can train, just like working your bicep in the gym. Your progress may be incremental at first, but like any good investment, it compounds over time.
