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Oct 29
1h 14m

How To Stay Open and Curious Even When Y...

10% Happier
About this episode

An antidote to boredom and stuckness.

Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning American playwright, author, essayist, and professor. Her latest book is Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present.

 

In this episode we talk about:

  • How to orient towards the world with an eagerness to learn 
  • How to approach our lives not only as students, but also as teachers
  • Unpacking the moment when "the student becomes the master"
  • What does it mean to have a meditation teacher? 
  • Being open to synchronicity or signs from the universe
  • Is everything magic? 
  • What Sarah's learned from the venerable psychiatrist Dr. Mark Epstein
  • What it means to "leave an emotion alone"

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