10% Happier with Dan Harris How To Stay Open and Curious Even When You're Exhausted or Annoyed | Sarah Ruhl
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Oct 29, 2025 
In this engaging conversation with Sarah Ruhl, an award-winning playwright and author, she shares her transformative journey with illness and creative expression. They discuss how to cultivate curiosity and gratitude for teachers, both traditional and unexpected. Sarah reflects on the importance of vulnerability in learning and how crises can open our receptivity to new lessons. The dialogue also explores the role of meditation in fostering compassionate curiosity and the magic of synchronicity in our lives.
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Adopt A Perpetual Student Mindset
- Orient yourself to life as a perpetual student to sustain curiosity and gratitude.
- Listing real teachers from preschool to present cultivates openness and appreciation.
Actively Seek Mentors
- Raise your hand and ask someone to mentor you instead of waiting for them to appear.
- Prepare vulnerability and time to receive mentorship when it arrives.
Wisdom From A Babysitter
- Sarah learned Dharma and calmness from her Tibetan babysitter, Yang Zom, during intimate childcare moments.
- The lesson came as lived presence, not as a reducible abstract teaching.
