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It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody how we doing it is

it is so easy when you turn on the news to feel hopeless, powerless, confused, and enraged.

But my guest today comes with a whole cornucopia of practical wisdom for navigating tumultuous times.

Sharon McMahon has been called America's government teacher.

She's a former high school teacher who has shot to prominence recently because she is meeting a truly deep need in our

culture for clear nonpartisan information and workable strategies for approaching American politics with a sense of sanity and agency.

Sharon has a massively popular Instagram account, a thriving sub-stack community called

The Preamble, a hit podcast called Here's where it gets

It's Interesting, and now a new book called The Small and the Mighty.

In this conversation we talk about how to avoid being confidently wrong I love that

phrase how we often get confused between our opinions and our identity and that

confusion can make it very hard to change our opinions. The importance of having a

diverse media diet, she's very funny on this, some tips for consuming the news

without driving yourself nuts, how to have compassion for people who we think are

nuts, how history can be a bomb for

hopelessness, an antidote for when you're tempted to conclude that things have never

been worse, which is sometimes called recency bias, how everyday things have

way more power than we might think,

and why hope is a choice.

Sharon McMahon coming right up after this.

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