That One Time I Didn't Speak For 10 Days.

What happens to your mind when you don't speak for 10 days? My co-host at the time, Monique Medved, and I talk through my first Vipassana course: no phone, no books, no eye contact, 4am starts and around 10 hours of meditation a day.

I share how Bob Iger's book The Ride of a Lifetime got me to sign up, how a Headspace habit eased the panic attacks I got running events, the hour-long sittings where you try not to move, and the made-up daydream that left me furious over nothing.

Mon shares the trek to base camp in Nepal that became eight hours a day of walking meditation, and why three litres of water a day for 30 days taught her to keep promises to herself. We finish on why you are not your thoughts and why small daily habits beat one big change.