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This is the 10% Happier podcast.

I'm Dan Harris. Hello, my fellow suffering beings, how we doing? That sense of insufficiency,

of lack of not enoughness that you may feel sometimes or all of the

time, it is super common and also super destructive. Speaking personally, it's at the root of so

much of my unhappiness and so many of my dumbest decisions. Part of the problem here is that so many

aspects of our culture and our economy are deliberately

inculcating us with a scarcity mindset, the idea that we'll finally be happy when we make the

next purchase, or when we earn as much as our wealthiest neighbor, or when we get the abs of our

favorite influencer, I could go on.

Today, we're going to talk about a deep,

but readily available antidote to this sense of lack. My guest is Robin Wall Kimmer. She's a mother,

scientist, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is perhaps best

known for her best-selling book, Braiding Sweetgrass. She's now written a new

book called The Service Berry, which is about a plant whose behavior is a model not only for our

individual lives, but potentially for, she argues, rethinking the global economy. So we talk about

that and we also talk about how to reclaim our stolen attention, practices for gratitude, counterintuitive advice on wealth and security, and the fascinating idea of plants as people or the study of plant cognition.

Robin Wall Kimmerer right after this.

One quick note before we get started here. if you're starting to think about holiday gifts

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