[drakonka]

I've been using Waking Up for a couple of years after not being able to get into Headspace. Something about the voice and style just works better for me in Waking Up. I still did not start regularly doing the daily sessions until recently, but have been loving consuming the theory sessions and conversations. I think David Whyte's series has been my favorite, as well as a couple he had on the science of consciousness. The sleep series with Walker was also great, even if much of it rehashed the book.

My only complaint with the conversation-based series is that sometimes I feel like Harris talks too much and goes on mini-rants, not really letting the other speaker...well, speak. I noticed this with the sleep series especially. A couple of times Walker tried to get into some conventional and less-conventional sleep advice/strategies which I was really curious about, but Harris kept getting sidetracked and I'm pretty sure Walker never did get to express that advice he wanted.

In one of the recent daily meditations, Harris said that some of the dailies would be led by other people. I'm sure it will be very well done, but I do worry a bit that I might not be able to get into the other speakers' voice and meditation style (like with Headspace and several other guided meditation attempts). We'll see how it goes.