10% Happier. How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works—A True Story

By Dan Harris.

Part Biography of Dan Harris. Part guide to secularish meditation. The book spends the bulk of its time on Harris's experience learning and practicing meditation.

I enjoyed.

• Think of mediation as practice concentrating. The part when you notice your thoughts going astray, and then bring them back—that's meditation. It's not the part where your mind goes blank and you zen out.
• You have to be practical through all of this. The goal of detachment, of mindfulness, isn't to become disconnected. It's to not let your choices be so emotionally driven.

Harris thinks of Buddhism as advanced common sense.