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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- A Deeply Healthy Kind of Perfectionism | Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
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- Sara Bareilles: Anxiety, Anger, and Art
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