Dan Harris Audiobooks

Even You Can Meditate: mindfulness aimed squarely at the sceptic, by a news anchor

1 audiobook reviewed

Who is Dan Harris?

Dan Harris, born in 1971, is a retired American broadcast journalist who spent his on-air career at ABC News, where he anchored Nightline and co-anchored the weekend edition of Good Morning America. That is a career spent at the sharp end of live television – a detail worth holding onto when you see what he has chosen to record for listeners.

Beyond the broadcasting CV the public record here is brief, but the arc is visible in our own catalogue: a man who reached the top table of American network news and turned up next teaching people to meditate. That is not the usual trajectory, and it is precisely what makes him interesting.

Dan Harris in audiobooks

Even You Can Meditate is the Harris title in our catalogue, and the title is doing deliberate work: that Even You is aimed squarely at the sceptic, the fidgeter, the person who has quietly concluded that meditation is for other people. Coming from a hard-news anchor rather than a robed guru, the pitch has a credibility most meditation content struggles to manage.

Audio is the obvious home for this material – meditation is guided by voice or not at all – and Harris has talked for a living his whole career. For UK listeners who are meditation-curious but allergic to incense, this is about as unintimidating an entry point as the catalogue offers.