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This is the 10% Happier podcast.

I'm Dan Harris.

Hello, everybody.

How we doing?

Today, we're going to talk about habits of mind that may be holding you back.

I'm referring here to things like your reliance on perfection, your reliance on being right all the time, your reliance on being comfortable, your reliance on being busy,

and much more. My guest is Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, who has written a book in which he taxonomizes

nine areas of what he calls over-reliance. And he talks about how these nine things are holding you back

from making the changes you might want to make in your life and how to break free from them.

Aside from the examples I listed above, we also talk about our tendency toward over-reliance on experts,

instead of listening to ourselves, our over-reliance on being liked by other people,

and our over-reliance on things never going wrong. He has a theory that I like called the escalator theory, which is

the fallacy that life should always be a smooth upward trajectory. I have fallen prey to this fallacy

many times. So we'll talk about that. Before we dive in, though, I just want to say two things.

First, a little bit more about Dr. Chatterjee.

He's been a practicing physician for more than two decades.

He's also a published author.

His latest book in which he lists these nine things that hold you back

is called Make Change That Lasts.

And he's the host of his own podcast called Feel Better Live More. The other thing I want to say is that this is yet another episode that is overstuffed

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