How To Stay Open and Curious Even When You're Exhausted or Annoyed | Sarah Ruhl - 10% Happier with Dan Harris

An antidote to boredom and stuckness.

S arah 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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