This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hello, my fellow suffering beings, how we doing today?

It is so easy, if you're not careful, to lapse into a kind of boredom and autopilot where the world seems flat and gray,

where you're cut off from the mundane glory of this whole being alive thing.

Today we're going to talk about one way out of this rut to approach the world

as a perpetual student to learn from everything and everyone. My guest is Sarah Rule, who's an

award-winning American playwright, author, essayist, and professor. She's got a newish book called

Lessons from My Teachers, from preschool to the present.

In this conversation, we talk about how to orient lives, not only as students, but also as teachers,

unpacking the moment when the student becomes the master, what it means to have a meditation teacher,

being open to synchronicity or signs from the universe, which

is a bit of a stretch for me, as you can imagine, but it was interesting nonetheless to talk about

it. And then we tackle this question is everything magic. I am surprisingly bullish on this one.

We also hit what Sarah has learned from the venerable psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Epstein, what it means

to quote unquote leave an emotion alone and much more. has learned from the venerable psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Epstein, what it means to, quote, unquote,

leave an emotion alone and much more. Just to say, this whole conversation jives with an ancient

Zen concept known as beginner's mind. And if you want to learn how to practice that mindset,

there is a guided meditation designed specifically to accompany this podcast.

It's a kind of chaser.

It comes from our teacher of the month, Sabinezalasi.

If you want to listen to it, sign up at Dan Harris.com.

Subscribers also get weekly live video meditation and Q&A sessions every Tuesday at 4 Eastern.

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