This book was about half a book about meditation and half a book about Dan Harris' life. While Harris' life is interesting, it's not really what I signed up for. Even the meditation parts are less instruction and more story of Harris' experiences with it. But what really rubbed me the wrong way was that Harris keeps claiming that anyone can do meditation but then describes how his true breakthroughs came at fancy, expensive meditation retreats. I also listened to this book and Harris (who narrates) comes across as kind of whiny.

What was most interesting about the book is how stories make it on the nightly news. There is no real chain of command on it, it's rather decided by the people on the ground. So they are competing for air time and so inflating the importance of what they are covering. And in this frightening day and age, I don't really want self-described asshole Dan Harris picking what I see on the news.