The Psychology Of Success | Guy Raz
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
A podcast pioneer on failure, resilience, luck, work/life balance, and the power of questions.
Guy Raz has been instrumental in creating some of the most iconic podcasts in the world, including Wondery's How I Built This, Wow in the World and TED Radio Hour. The New York Times has described him as “one of the most popular podcasters in history.”
This episode is part of our monthlong Do Life Better series.
We talk about:
- The challenge–and gift–of failure
- Getting comfortable with discomfort and risk
- The notion of luck
- The balance between your relationships and your work
- Why scale isn’t always the answer
- Success vs. happiness
- And much more
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- Do Life Better
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- Rethinking Success | Mia Birdsong
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to 10% happier early and ad-free right now. |
| 0:04.7 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:13.4 | It's the 10% Happier podcast. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm not just talking about the tactical |
| 0:37.6 | business decisions or who they knew or where they went to school. I'm talking about how did they |
| 0:41.8 | manage their mindset through all of the inevitable ups and downs. How they know they were on the right |
| 0:47.1 | path in the first place. How did they choose their partners? How hard did they work and what did they |
| 0:51.8 | have to sacrifice? In other words, I'm talking about the |
| 0:54.4 | psychology of success. Today, I'm going to talk to somebody who has achieved enormous success |
| 1:00.5 | through investigating the very process of success. Guy Raz is a podcasting pioneer. Perhaps his |
| 1:07.8 | signature show is called How I Built This, where he talks to Titans of Industry about how they got there. |
| 1:13.6 | In the process, Guy has become a titan of the podcasting industry. |
| 1:17.3 | His other shows include Wow in the World and The Great Creators. |
| 1:21.1 | He's also written a number of books, including one called How I Built This. |
| 1:24.4 | In this conversation, we talk about the challenge and the gift of failure. |
| 1:28.1 | We talk about getting comfortable with discomfort and risk. We talk about the notion of luck, |
| 1:33.5 | the balance between your relationships and your work, why scale is not always the answer, |
| 1:38.4 | success versus happiness, and much more. Just to note, this episode is part of our month-long |
| 1:44.0 | do life better series. This week is all about work-life balance. On Monday, we had Kristen Neff and Chris Ghermer talking about burnout. On Wednesday, we had Nolita Tsenguewe talking about mindfulness and managing stress. You might enjoy those episodes. You do not need to have heard them in order to enjoy this one. We'll get started with Guy Raz right after this. |
| 2:04.4 | Real quick, I want to let you know about an online event coming up at the end of January. It's called When the Rubber Hits the Road. Living the Dharma in Difficult Times, it is presented by the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. And it's happening on January 24th through the 26th. |
| 2:20.7 | Amazing teachers will be taking part in this, Tara Brock, |
| 2:23.9 | Dr. Larry and Peggy Ward, Sharon Salzberg, Robert Thurman, |
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