Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics…book review

by Richard Subber | Mar 15, 2025 | Book reviews, Books, Human Nature

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Book review:

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics

by Dan Harris and Jeff Warren, with Carlye Adler

New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2017

286 pages

I tried meditation once, about 20 years ago or so, and, I confess, I didn’t stick with it.

It seemed like an “extra” thing to do, and I think I felt like I was busy enough.

Harris makes a believable case for giving it a try.

He has good news, in part: you don’t have to sit cross-legged with your knees painfully lowered, you don’t have to pick any kind of “mantra,” and you can start off with 5 or 10 minutes a day—and he repeatedly says “one minute of meditation absolutely counts.”

I’m retired, and now I know I have the time to meditate if I feel like it.

I can count my breaths, so I can get started.

I’ve tried it a couple times already, and, I confess, I think there is a welcome stillness connected to the whole thing.

I think there may be a new way to be me.

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