Stop Trying to Become Someone New: Get Past Constant Comparison and Return to What Works For You | Sam Sanders

This is the 10% Happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey. Hey. How we doing? I think quite commonly when we contemplate the various levers we could pull to upgrade our mental health, to get happier, We consider things like sleep, exercise, meditation, etcetera. But there's a ton of evidence to suggest that aesthetic experiences, I. E. Beauty, are also extremely powerful ways to boost your well-being. This could be nature, but also, of course, art. And not just fine art that you see in museums. I'm talking about movies, music, TV shows, the stuff that I personally love. So today, we're gonna play you a conversation between me and my friend, Sam, who I'll tell you about in a second, about which pieces of art reliably produce happiness and meaning for us. The friend in question is Sam Sanders, who is the host of the Sam Sanders Show. I should say that we initially recorded this conversation that you're about to hear for Sam's show back at around New Year's. But we're dropping it for you here because we think you'll like it and also because we think you might wanna check out Sam's show, which I highly recommend. He's awesome, as you'll hear. Sam has a term for the pieces of art, music, TV, or film that we return to again and again. He calls them modern scriptures. So you're gonna hear us discuss our modern scriptures. Side note, I'm recording this after several days of being alone in our house. My wife and son are overseas. I've been going back to old movies in the evening, specifically, the Godfather movies and and also some Martin Scorsese stuff, which I know just totally reveals my age. But those are definitely modern scriptures for me, those old mafia movies and, organized crime films. I can get totally sucked up into those. Anyway, Sam and I don't talk about those specifically, but I do mention many, many other modern scriptures of mine, and we hear about his. It's also a wide ranging conversation that we get into why Instagram is reliably making me miserable and why I deleted it, what the research actually says about making resolutions stick. We recorded this close to New Year's, but this is true for anybody ever trying to form a habit. And we also talk about Sam's genuinely moving theory about why the act of return might be the most underrated practice there is. Okay. Just a few quick things to say before we dive in here. This is the last day of a challenge that we're running over on the 10% with Dan Harris meditation app. The challenge has been called Even You Can Meditate. It's been awesome. Don't worry though if you missed it. You can still access all of the great meditations from the challenge and much more. Head on over to danharris.com to download the app. Also, I've got two live in person events coming up. On May 17, I'll be …