How To Get Past Your Past | Yung Pueblo
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🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Lessons learned from 12 years of serious meditation.
Diego Perez is a meditator and #1 New York Times bestselling author who is widely known by his pen name, Yung Pueblo. His writing focuses on the power of self-healing, creating healthy relationships, and the wisdom that comes when we truly work on knowing ourselves.
In this episode we talk about:
- How to burn off your mind’s conditioning
- The suffering that comes from clinging in a world characterized by relentless change
- What selfless listening is, and how to do it
- The liberation that comes from equanimity
- Some of the incredibly valuable lessons he’s learned from 12 years of meditation
- How to make better decisions for your future self
- How to have boundless compassion without being a pushover
- Why being able to see perspectives outside of your own is a sign of intelligence and mental strength
- And much more
Related Episodes:
- Jack Kornfield & Yung Pueblo On: How To Meditate When You’re Freaking Out, the Limits of the Thinking Mind, & Balancing Self-Interest with Compassion
- The Dharma of Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello, my fellow suffering beings. How are we doing? Today we're going to talk about how to get past |
| 0:24.5 | your past, how not to be owned by your personal history, and how doing this can have a massive impact on how you relate to everybody else. |
| 0:34.9 | And just a quick reminder here, I know I say this all the time, but I'm going to say it again. |
| 0:39.0 | The research strongly suggests that the quality of your relationships is probably the most important |
| 0:44.2 | variable when it comes to your overall happiness. But that's not all we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:49.1 | My guest is Diego Perez, who you might know by his pen name, Young Pueblo. Diego is extremely popular, |
| 0:56.8 | not only as an author, but also as a social media presence, and he's got a new book. It's called |
| 1:01.3 | How to Love Better. And so, yes, given the nature of his new book, we are going to be talking |
| 1:05.4 | about relationship skills, including avoiding blame, keeping an open mind, having compassion without being a doormat. |
| 1:12.8 | But we're also going to take a deep dive into a fascinating list that Diego includes in this new book. |
| 1:19.1 | It's a list of the 12 things he has learned after 12 years of serious meditation. |
| 1:24.6 | And this guy is quite serious about meditation. He regularly does long meditation |
| 1:29.8 | retreats, sometimes up to six weeks. So in this part of the discussion, the one where we're talking |
| 1:35.4 | about what he's learned over the past 12 years, we talk about how to burn off your mind's conditioning, |
| 1:39.5 | what that phrase means. We talk about the suffering that comes from clinging in a world characterized by |
| 1:45.5 | ceaseless change. And we talk about the liberation that comes from equanimity. So we got a lot |
| 1:51.2 | going on here. It's a great conversation. Love talking to Diego Perez, aka Young Pueblo. |
| 1:56.5 | And it's coming up right after this. Before we get started, I just want to make sure you know about all the cool stuff we've got going on over at Dan Harris.com. |
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